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 Books1902 |
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... Slavery in the Territories 126 Thaddeus Stevens 129 Fanaticism and Liberty 130 Jefferson Davis 132 Relations of North and South 133 Alexander H. Stephens 135 Separate as Billows , but One as the Sea 136 Robert Toombs 138 The Creed of ...
... Slavery in the Territories 126 Thaddeus Stevens 129 Fanaticism and Liberty 130 Jefferson Davis 132 Relations of North and South 133 Alexander H. Stephens 135 Separate as Billows , but One as the Sea 136 Robert Toombs 138 The Creed of ...
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... slavery ; and in proportion to the magnitude of the sub- ject ought to be the freedom of the debate . It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at the truth , and fulfil the great responsibility which we hold to God and our ...
... slavery ; and in proportion to the magnitude of the sub- ject ought to be the freedom of the debate . It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at the truth , and fulfil the great responsibility which we hold to God and our ...
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... slaves , and courted them to assassinate your wives and children . These are the men to whom we are exhorted to sacrifice ... slavery will render them contemptible enemies . JAMES MADISON 39 framed the Constitution , which he aided The ...
... slaves , and courted them to assassinate your wives and children . These are the men to whom we are exhorted to sacrifice ... slavery will render them contemptible enemies . JAMES MADISON 39 framed the Constitution , which he aided The ...
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... slavery contro- versy . The first of these led to the attempted seces- sion from the Union of South Carolina . Its most notable result , so far as oratory is concerned , was the famous Congressional debate between Daniel Webster and ...
... slavery contro- versy . The first of these led to the attempted seces- sion from the Union of South Carolina . Its most notable result , so far as oratory is concerned , was the famous Congressional debate between Daniel Webster and ...
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... 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 against the forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic ...
... 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 against the forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic ...
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