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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IX
America: II (1818–1865)
| 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 |
- Robert Young Hayne
- On the Foote Resolution
- Daniel Webster
- I. The First Bunker Hill Monument Oration
- II. In Reply to Hayne
- III. On the Clay Compromise
- Henry Clay
- I. The Emancipation of South America
- II. His Attack on Jackson
- III. On His Own Compromise Measures
- John Caldwell Calhoun
- I. On the Expunging Resolution
- II. On the Clay Compromise Measures
- Thomas Corwin
- On the Mexican War
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens
- The South and the Public Domain
- William Cullen Bryant
- His Welcome to Kossuth
- Rufus Choate
- His Eulogy of Webster
- Charles Sumner
- On the Crime Against Kansas
- Preston Smith Brooks
- In Defense of His Attack on Sumner
- William Henry Seward
- His “Irrepressible Conflict” Speech
- John Brown
- His Speech to the Court at His Trial
- William Lloyd Garrison
- On the Death of John Brown
- William Lowndes Yancey
- His Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention
- Jefferson Davis
- On Withdrawing from the Union
- Robert Toombs
- On Resigning from the Senate
- Abraham Lincoln
- I. The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech
- II. In the First Debate with Douglas
- III. His Farewell Words in Springfield
- IV. The First Inaugural Address
- V. The Speech at Gettysburg
- VI. The Second Inaugural Address
- Stephen Arnold Douglas
- In the First Debate with Lincoln