American Eloquence (Vol. 1-4)
Studies in American Political History: Complete EditionBy Various Author
Length29h 56m
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American Eloquence in 4 volumes presents a study in American political history and it contains a selection of great speeches of American statesmen showing the spirit and motives which have triggered these leaders throughout several phases of American history. The work divides history of United States in 9 stages: Colonialism, Constitutional Government, the Rise of Democracy, the Rise of Nationality, the Slavery struggle, Secession, Civil War and Reconstruction, Free Trade and Protection, and Civil Service Reform. Each of these is marked by important orations of nation's great leaders, from Colonialism and orations of Alexander Hamilton, through Anti-Slavery speeches of John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln to Free Trade and Reform era and lectures of Henry Clay and George William Curtis.
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Table of contents
1PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
40PRESTON S. BROOKS,
2INTRODUCTORY.
41JUDAH P. BENJAMIN,
3I. — COLONIALISM.
42ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
4JAMES OTIS
43ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
5PATRICK HENRY
44STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS,
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6SAMUEL ADAMS
45WILLIAM. H. SEWARD,
7ALEXANDER HAMILTON
46VI. — SECESSION.
8JAMES MADISON,
47JOHN PARKER HALE,
9II. — CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
48ALFRED IVERSON,
10ALBERT GALLATIN,
49BENJAMIN WADE,
11FISHER AMES,
50JOHN JORDON CRITTENDEN,
12JOHN NICHOLAS
51ROBERT TOOMBS,
13III. — THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY.
52SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX,
14THOMAS JEFFERSON,
53JEFFERSON DAVIS,
15JOHN RANDOLPH,
54INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
16ADMISSION OF LOUISIANA.
55VII.—CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.
17OF MASSACHUSETTS. (BORN 1772, DIED 1864.)
56ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
18IV. — THE RISE OF NATIONALITY.
57JEFFERSON DAVIS,
19ROBERT Y. HAYNE,
58ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS,
20DANIEL WEBSTER,
59JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE, and EDWARD D. BAKER
21JOHN C. CALHOUN
60CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM,
22THOMAS H. BENTON,
61HENRY WARD BEECHER,
23INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME II.
62ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
24V. — THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE
63ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
25RUFUS KING,
64HENRY WINTER DAVIS,
26WILLIAM PINKNEY,
65GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
27WENDELL PHILLIPS,
66THADDEUS STEVENS,
28JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
67HENRY J. RAYMOND,
29JOHN C. CALHOUN,
68THADDEUS STEVENS,
30DANIEL WEBSTER,
69VIII.—FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
31HENRY CLAY,
70HENRY CLAY,
32WENDELL PHILLIPS,
71FRANK H. HURD,
33CHARLES SUMNER,
72IX.—FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
34INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME.
73JUSTIN S. MORRILL,
35V. —THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE (Continued from Vol. II.)
74JAMES G. BLAINE,
36SALMON PORTLAND CHASE,
75JOHN SHERMAN,
37EDWARD EVERETT,
76JOHN P. JONES,
38STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS,
77GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,
39CHARLES SUMNER,
78CARL SCHURZ,
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