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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

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[Appeal for the Republican Candidates. Letter to the Republican Committee at Boston, June 21, 1856]1
[Longing for Restoration to Active Duties, with Appeal to the Young Men of Massachusetts. Letter to the Committee of a Young Men’s Convention at Fitchburg, August 5, 1856]6
[Appeal to the Republicans of Rhode Island. Letter to a Committee, September 4, 1856]9
[Contribution for Kansas. Letter to Messrs. Greeley and McElrath, of the New York Tribune, September 23, 1856]10
[Regret for Continued Disability. Letter to Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, September 24, 1856]11
[Effect of a Vote for Buchanan: Appeal to the Republicans of Illinois. Letter to a Committee of Republicans at Joliet, October 2, 1856]13
[Appeal for the Republican Cause. Letter to a Committee of Hudson River Counties, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 3, 1856]15
[Relief for Kansas. Letter to a Committee of the Kansas Aid Society at Boston, October 3, 1856]18
[Duty to vote for Kansas and for Burlingame. Letter to a Meeting at Faneuil Hall, October 29, 1856]20
[Public Reception of Mr. Sumner, on his Return to Boston: with the Speeches: November 3, 1856]22
[Aid for Kansas. Letter to Hon. M. F. Conway, November 17, 1856]40
[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