CONGRATULATION ON REËLECTION OF ANSON BURLINGAME AS
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS. Letter to a Banquet at Faneuil
Hall, November 24, 1856 41
THE LATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OUR BUNKER HILL. Letter to a
Committee at Worcester, November 24, 1856 43
LET MASSACHUSETTS HELP KANSAS. Letter to James Redpath, Esq.,
January 10, 1857 44
ACCEPTANCE OF SENATORSHIP, ON REËLECTION. Letter to the
Legislature of Massachusetts, January 22, 1857 46
GRATITUDE FOR SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT. Letter to Hon.
Ryland Fletcher, Governor of Vermont, March 7, 1857 52
A LAST WORD FOR KANSAS, ON SAILING FOR EUROPE. Letter to James
Redpath, Esq., March 7, 1857 54
INVITATION TO DINNER BY AMERICAN MERCHANTS IN PARIS. Letter to
the American Merchants at Paris, April 20, 1857 56
OUR POLITICS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE. Letter to a Friend, dated
Heidelberg, September 11, 1857 60
FAREWELL ON SAILING FOR EUROPE A SECOND TIME IN QUEST OF
HEALTH. Letter to the People of Massachusetts, on Board Steamer
Vanderbilt, New York Harbor, May 22, 1858 62
HONOR TO THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Letter to
Professor Morse, in excusing himself from a Dinner at Paris,
August 17, 1858 64
LONGING FOR DUTIES OF POSITION. From a Letter to a Friend,
dated at Aix, Savoy, September 11, 1858 65
INDEPENDENCE AND UNITY OF ITALY. Letter to a Public Meeting at
New York, February 17, 1860 67
TWO LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON. Letter to the
Washington Monument Association of the First School District of
Philadelphia, February 21, 1860 70
MACAULAY ON SLAVERY. Communication to the New York Tribune,
March 3, 1860 71
STATUE OF HORACE MANN. Letter to Dr. Samuel G. Howe, March 5,
1860 78
USURPATION OF THE SENATE IN IMPRISONING A CITIZEN. Two
Speeches, on the Imprisonment of Thaddeus Hyatt for refusing
to testify in the Harper’s Ferry Investigation, in the Senate,
March 12, and June 15, 1860 80
ABOLITION OF CUSTOM-HOUSE OATHS. Resolution in the Senate,
March 15, 1860 95
BOSTON COMMON, AND ITS EXTENSION. Letter to George H. Snelling,
Esq., of Boston, March 26, 1860 96
ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP A CITIZEN UNDER ORDER OF THE SENATE. The Case
of Frank B. Sanborn, of Concord, Massachusetts, with Speeches
in the Senate, April 10, 13, and 16, 1860 99
PETITIONS AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, April 18,
1860 106
SAFETY OF PASSENGERS IN STEAMSHIPS FOR CALIFORNIA. Resolution
and Remarks in the Senate, May 21, 1860 109
CANDIDATES WHO ARE A PLATFORM. Letter to a Ratification Meeting
at Buffalo, New York, May 30, 1860 111
THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, on Bill for
Admission of Kansas as a Free State, June 4, 1860 113
A VICTORY OF PRINCIPLE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Letter to
a Public Meeting at Middleborough, Massachusetts, June 11,
1860 287
REFUSAL TO COLORED PERSONS OF RIGHT OF PETITION. Notes of
Undelivered Speech in the Senate, on Resolution refusing to
receive Petition from Citizens of Massachusetts of African
Descent, June 15, 1860 288
THE LATE HONORABLE JOHN SCHWARTZ, OF PENNSYLVANIA. Speech in
the Senate, on Resolutions in Tribute to him, June 21, 1860 300
UNHESITATING ASSERTION OF OUR PRINCIPLES. Letter to the
Republicans of New York City, June 27, 1860 302
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: ITS ORIGIN, NECESSITY, AND PERMANENCE.
Speech before the Young Men’s Republican Union of New York, at
Cooper Institute, July 11, 1860 303
OUR CANDIDATES WILL BE ELECTED. Letter to the Lincoln and
Hamlin Club of Owego, New York, July 30, 1860 342
EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES A BLESSING, AND
NOT A FAILURE. Letter to a Public Meeting at Framingham,
Massachusetts, July 30, 1860 343
SLAVERY A BARBAROUS DISEASE TO BE STAYED. Letter to a
Republican Meeting at the Dedication of the Republican Wigwam
in New York, August 6, 1860 346
TRIBUTE TO A COLLEGE CLASSMATE. Remarks on the Late John W.
Browne, August 20, 1860 348
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THE ISSUES. Speech at the State
Convention of the Republican Party at Worcester, August 29,
1860 352