CHARLES SUMNER

CHARLES SUMNER



Copyright, 1899,

BY

LEE AND SHEPARD.

Statesman Edition.

Limited to One Thousand Copies.

Of which this is

No. 565

Norwood Press:
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


Believe me still, as I have ever been,
The steadfast lover of my fellow-men;
My weakness, love of holy liberty;
My crime, the wish that all mankind were free:
Free, not by blood; redeemed, but not by crime;
Each fetter broken, but in God's good time.

Whittier.

NOTE.

In this collection the arrangement is strictly chronological. Everyarticle will be found according to its date, without reference to thesubject or occasion, thus showing the succession of efforts as theyoccurred.


CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.

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