Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations: Containing the Lives of the Greatest Orators and Their Best Orations from Earliest Times to Present Day, with an Account of Place and Time of Delivery of Each Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books |
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viii CONTENTS PAGE 69 70 73 74 76 79 80 83 84 88 William Wirt Burr and Blennerhassett Henry Clay The American System The Horrors of Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne The Secret of ...
viii CONTENTS PAGE 69 70 73 74 76 79 80 83 84 88 William Wirt Burr and Blennerhassett Henry Clay The American System The Horrors of Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne The Secret of ...
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John W. Daniel Dedication of the Washington Monument Benjamin H. Hill A Plea for Union Lucius Q. C. Lamar Sumner and the South George F. Hoar The Ordinance of 1787 John J. Ingalls The Undiscovered Country Roscoe Conkling The Nomination ...
John W. Daniel Dedication of the Washington Monument Benjamin H. Hill A Plea for Union Lucius Q. C. Lamar Sumner and the South George F. Hoar The Ordinance of 1787 John J. Ingalls The Undiscovered Country Roscoe Conkling The Nomination ...
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The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the tariff question and the slavery controversy . The first of these led to the attempted secession from the Union of South Carolina . Its most notable result , so far as ...
The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the tariff question and the slavery controversy . The first of these led to the attempted secession from the Union of South Carolina . Its most notable result , so far as ...
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... during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excitement in the South against high tariff that yielded in South Carolina an attempt to nullify the United States tariff laws .
... during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excitement in the South against high tariff that yielded in South Carolina an attempt to nullify the United States tariff laws .
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SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION [ Mr. Foot's resolution , which called forth the brilliant passage of arms between the oratorical champions of South Carolina and Massachusetts , was for an inquiry and report on the quantity of the public ...
SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION [ Mr. Foot's resolution , which called forth the brilliant passage of arms between the oratorical champions of South Carolina and Massachusetts , was for an inquiry and report on the quantity of the public ...
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