American Eloquence (Vol. 1-4)
Landmark Speeches on Liberty, Union, Slavery, and Constitutional Power from the Revolution to the Nineteenth CenturyBy Various Author
Length30h 5m
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American Eloquence (Vols. 1–4) gathers the speeches, addresses, and public arguments through which the United States debated its founding principles and most consequential crises. Moving across the revolutionary, constitutional, antebellum, and Civil War-era political worlds, the collection preserves the cadences of figures whose words shaped law, national identity, reform, and party conflict. Its literary style is fundamentally forensic and rhetorical: carefully balanced appeals to reason, history, biblical authority, and popular sentiment reveal how oratory functioned as both political action and a form of civic literature. Read as a whole, the volumes constitute a rich anthology of nineteenth-century American public discourse, illuminating changing ideas of liberty, union, representation, slavery, and citizenship while also displaying the period's grand tradition of formal eloquence. Compiled from the voices of numerous statesmen, reformers, legislators, and advocates, the work reflects the culture of a republic in which printed speeches extended the influence of the political platform. The authors represented here wrote amid constitutional controversy, sectional antagonism, democratic expansion, and urgent struggles over human freedom. Their diverse backgrounds and positions make the collection less a single argument than a documentary record of national self-definition, preserving both celebrated rhetoric and the tensions it sought to resolve. This set is recommended to readers interested in American political thought, rhetoric, constitutional history, and the literary culture of public life. It rewards sustained reading as well as selective consultation, offering essential primary sources for scholars while remaining accessible to anyone seeking to understand how Americans have argued about power, principle, and the meaning of the nation.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length30 hrs 5 mins
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Publish dateMay 1, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Chronicles of the Old West - 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West (Annotated)
26V. — THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE
2PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
27RUFUS KING,
3INTRODUCTORY.
28WILLIAM PINKNEY,
4I. — COLONIALISM.
29WENDELL PHILLIPS,
5JAMES OTIS
30JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
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6PATRICK HENRY
31JOHN C. CALHOUN,
7SAMUEL ADAMS
32DANIEL WEBSTER,
8ALEXANDER HAMILTON
33HENRY CLAY,
9JAMES MADISON,
34WENDELL PHILLIPS,
10II. — CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
35CHARLES SUMNER,
11ALBERT GALLATIN,
36Volume 3
12FISHER AMES,
37INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME.
13JOHN NICHOLAS
38V. —THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE (Continued from Vol. II.)
14III. — THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY.
39SALMON PORTLAND CHASE,
15THOMAS JEFFERSON,
40EDWARD EVERETT,
16JOHN RANDOLPH,
41STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS,
17ADMISSION OF LOUISIANA.
42CHARLES SUMNER,
18OF MASSACHUSETTS. (BORN 1772, DIED 1864.)
43PRESTON S. BROOKS,
19IV. — THE RISE OF NATIONALITY.
44JUDAH P. BENJAMIN,
20ROBERT Y. HAYNE,
45ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
21DANIEL WEBSTER,
46ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
22JOHN C. CALHOUN
47STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS,
23THOMAS H. BENTON,
48WILLIAM. H. SEWARD,
24Volume 2
49VI. — SECESSION.
25INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME II.
50JOHN PARKER HALE,
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