Not now for the first time in human struggles has Truth, when most dishonored, seemed most radiant, gathering glory even out of obloquy.

She has seen her ports closed by arbitrary power,--has seen her name made a byword of reproach,--has seen her cherished leaders, Hancock and Adams, excepted from all pardon by the crown; but then, when most dishonored, did Massachusetts…

And now, when Massachusetts is engaged in a greater cause than that of our fathers, how serenely can she turn from the scoff and jeer of heartless men!

Her only disgrace will be in disloyalty to the truth which is to make her free.

Worse to bear--oh, far worse!--than the evil speaking of others is the conduct of some of her own children.

It is hard to see the scholarship which has been drawn from her cisterns, and the riches accumulated under her hospitable shelter, now employed to weaken and discredit that cause which is above riches or scholarship.

Mark, while a sublimer cause is ours than the cause of the Crusaders; for our task is not to ransom an empty sepulchre, but to rescue the Saviour himself, in the bodies of his innumerable children,--not to dislodge the Infidel from a…

To this I offer my best efforts, careless of office or honor.

Show me that I am wrong, and I stop at once; but in the complete conviction of right I shall persevere against all temptations, against all odds, against all perils, against all threats,--knowing well, that, whatever may be my fate, the…

Only by watching the stars can the mariner safely pursue his course; and it is only by obeying those lofty principles which are above men and human passion that we can make our way safely through the duties of life.

They have the power, and this is the very moment to exert it.

Surely liberty in Kansas, involving our own liberty also, is worthy of every effort.

Many who voted against him must, in their better moments, condemn themselves,--as much as they have been condemned by others.

But it was hard that this blow at Freedom should be attempted in the name of Trade, and that merchants of Boston should be rallied against a candidate who had done so much to make Boston respectable.

Such examples teach us not to be disappointed, when this interest is invoked against our efforts.

But I rejoice to know that in Boston there are honorable exceptions, and, if anything be expected from me to-night, let it be a tribute to one of these.

Burlingame on mercantile grounds, nobly replied at once, “I am a merchant, but at the polls I mean to be a patriot.

All New England, with New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, constitute an irresistible phalanx for Freedom, while our seeming reverse in the Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill.

Indeed, I think that no effort can be safely relaxed, until the Territory is admitted into the Union as a Free State.

The Slave Oligarchy has not yet abandoned its darling idea of a new Slave State, and this can be defeated only by vigilance.

Of course, emigrants who love Freedom, and, if need be, are willing to die in her cause, must be encouraged to plant themselves in the Territory.

Her people have already opened their hearts to Kansas, and the public treasury should be opened as wide as their hearts.

Sumner is at this moment the most popular man in the State, the opinions of which he so truly represents.

Few public men have had such large opportunities, few public men have so nobly improved them.

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