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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. VIII
America: I (1761–1837)
| Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians. |
Contents
| Index to Authors |
| NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002 |
- James Logan
- Logan to Lord Dunmore
- Joseph Brant
- Brant to Lord George Germaine
- Red Jacket
- Red Jacket on the Religion of the White Man and the Red
- Tecumseh
- I. Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes
- II. Tecumseh to General Proctor
- Pushmataha
- Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun
- Black Hawk
- Black Hawk to General Street
- Peter Wilson
- Peter Wilson on the Empire State
- James Otis
- In Opposition to Writs of Assistance
- Benjamin Franklin
- I. His Examination Before the House of Commons
- II. On the Federal Constitution
- III. Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy
- Patrick Henry
- I. The “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech
- II. Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought?
- George Washington
- I. On His Appointment as Commander-in-Chief
- II. His First Inaugural Address
- III. His Farewell Address
- Samuel Adams
- On American Independence
- William Pinkney
- For the Relief of Slaves
- Alexander Hamilton
- On the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
- John Marshall
- On the Federal Constitution
- Fisher Ames
- On the Treaty with Great Britain
- Thomas Jefferson
- His First Inaugural Address
- Eliphalet Nott
- On the Death of Hamilton
- John Randolph
- On Offensive War with England
- Edward Everett
- The Issue in the Revolution
- Andrew Jackson
- I. His Second Inaugural Address
- II. His Farewell Address
- Sargent S. Prentiss
- On the Death of Lafayette
- Wendell Phillips
- On the Murder of Lovejoy
- George Bancroft
- The People in Art, Government, and Religion
- Thomas Hart Benton
- On the Expunging Resolution
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On the American Scholar