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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... Address The Second Inaugural Stephen A. Douglas . Slavery in the Territories
Thaddeus Stevens Fanaticism and Liberty Jefferson Davis Relations of North and
South Alexander H. Stephens Separate as Billows , but One as the Sea Robert ...
... Address The Second Inaugural Stephen A. Douglas . Slavery in the Territories
Thaddeus Stevens Fanaticism and Liberty Jefferson Davis Relations of North and
South Alexander H. Stephens Separate as Billows , but One as the Sea Robert ...
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... speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for
ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country
. For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or
slavery ...
... speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for
ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country
. For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or
slavery ...
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Their number is but few and daily decreases ; and the spirit which can render
them patient of slavery will render them contemptible enemies . JAMES
MADISON 39 framed the Constitution , which he aided The Struggle for
Independence 30.
Their number is but few and daily decreases ; and the spirit which can render
them patient of slavery will render them contemptible enemies . JAMES
MADISON 39 framed the Constitution , which he aided The Struggle for
Independence 30.
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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 oratory is ...
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 oratory is ...
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HENRY CLAY ( 1777–1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N those days of tariff
and slavery agitation , when all seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West ,
the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought ...
HENRY CLAY ( 1777–1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N those days of tariff
and slavery agitation , when all seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West ,
the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought ...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | Charles Morris |
| Published | 1902 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2014 |
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