Each fetter broken, but in God's good time.
Whittier.
In this collection the arrangement is strictly chronological. Every article will be found according to its date, without reference to the subject or occasion, thus showing the succession of efforts as they occurred.
CHAPTER PAGE [INTRODUCTION. By Hon. George Frisbie Hoar] vii [The True Grandeur of Nations. An Oration before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845] 5 [Tribute of Friendship: The late Joseph Story. Article from the Boston Daily Advertiser, September 16, 1845] 133 [The Wrong of Slavery. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, against the Admission of Texas as a Slave State, November 4, 1845] 149 [Equal Rights in the Lecture-Room. Letter to the Committee of the New Bedford Lyceum, November 29, 1845] 160 [Prisons and Prison Discipline. Article from the Christian Examiner, January, 1846] 163 [The Employment of Time. Lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846] 184 [Biographical Sketch of the late John Pickering. Article in the Law Reporter of June, 1846] 214 [The Scholar, the Jurist, the Artist, the Philanthropist. An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at their Anniversary, August 27, 1846] 241 [Antislavery Duties of the Whig Party. Speech at the Whig State Convention of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, Boston, September 23, 1846] 303 [Wrongful Declaration of War against Mexico. Letter to Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Representative in Congress from Boston, October 25, 1846] 317 [Refusal to be a Candidate for Congress. Notice in the Boston Papers, October 31, 1846] 330 [Slavery and the Mexican War. Speech at a Public Meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, November 5, 1846] 333 [Invalidity of Enlistments in the Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers for the Mexican War. Argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, January, 1847] 352 [Withdrawal of American Troops from Mexico. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, February 4, 1847] 374
