SPEECHES

AND

ADDRESSES.

BY

CHARLES SUMNER.

Such busy multitudes I fain would see

Stand upon Free Soil with a people free.

GOETHE'S FAUST.

Nihil autem gloriosius libertate, præter virtutem, si tamen libertas recte
a virtute sejungitur.-JOHN OF SALISBURY.

BOSTON:

HIGGINS AND BRADLEY,

20 WASHINGTON STREET.