A vote for such men will be a contribution to Kansas.

My vote will not be needed; but I am unwilling that the opportunity should pass of uttering my determined NO against the efforts now making to subjugate Kansas and to install the Slave Oligarchy in permanent control of the National…

Against this dreadful conspiracy I protest, with all the ardor of my soul; and I know no way in which I can hope to make this protest immediately effective, except by casting my vote for those candidates openly and unequivocally hostile to…

Especially shall I vote for Burlingame; and I shall do this, not only because I think him worthy of honor, and admire his generous nature, intrepidity, and eloquence, but because I have at heart the good name of Boston, and the welfare of…

Boston should sustain Burlingame, not merely for his sake, but for her own sake,--not merely to do him honor, but to save herself from dishonor,--not merely from local pride, but to strengthen Liberty and to serve the whole Republic, now…

He comes, a cheerful and victorious sufferer, out of great conflicts of humanity with oppression, of ideas with ignorance, of scholarship and refinement with barbarian vulgarity, of intellectual power with desperate and brutal violence, of…

It has joined her name more inseparably than ever with the aspirations of Christian liberty, and the honors of disinterested patriotism, throughout the earth, and through all time.

I rejoice that my life has been prolonged to this day,--that I am permitted to behold the dawnings of ancient Liberty through the broken openings of the clouds, which for more than fifty years the spirit of Slavery has extended over this…

I thank Heaven that now, at last, the Free States are beginning to awaken to a sense of their dangers and their duties,--that, at length, they begin to realize that the Slave States have overleaped the bounds of the Constitution.

The apathy of half a century may delay for a time the triumphs of Freedom, but come they will.

How small is it, compared with that tale of woe which is perpetually coming to us from the house of bondage!

If the ladies could vote, he would be the next President.

Massachusetts loves, honors, will sustain and defend her noble Sumner!

He returns to his friends; but his friends are wherever justice is revered.

He returns to his neighbors; but he has a neighbor in every victim of wrong throughout the world.

In her name I declare that the base and cowardly blows which fell on you struck through you into her.

But the spontaneous kindness of this reception makes me forget my weakness, makes me forget my desire for repose.

From day to day and week to week I vainly sought that health which we value most when lost, and which perpetually eluded my pursuit.

My next hope was, that I might be permitted to appear before the people during the present canvass, and with heart and voice plead the great cause now in issue.

To Massachusetts, mother of us all,--great in resources, great in children,--I now pledge anew my devotion.

I know something of the great judgments by which the jurisprudence of our country is illustrated; but I doubt if there is anything in the wisdom of Marshall, the learning of Story, or the completeness of Kent, which will brighten with time…

Never before did she inspire equal pride and affection; for never before was she so completely possessed by those sentiments which, when manifest in Commonwealth or citizen, invest the character with its highest charm, so that what is sown…

Wealth has its splendor, and the intellect has its glory; but there is a grandeur in such service which is above all that these can supply.

For this she has already the regard of good men, and will have the immortal life of history.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.