CONTENTS PART I. AMERICAN ORATORS PAGE REVOLUTIONARY ORATORS OF THE UNITED STATES James Otis 23 24 Alexander Hamilton 32 33 Fisher Ames 43 44 48 36 47 THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN ORATORY The Evils of the Embargo Act William Wirt .. Burr and Blennerhassett The Horrors of Civil War John Quincy Adams A Eulogy of Lafayette The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration A Panegyric of Webster Spanning the Continent The Dismemberment of Mexico The Strong Against the Weak The States and the Central Government Stephen A. Douglas . Slavery in the Territories Fanaticism and Liberty Relations of North and South Separate as Billows, but One as the Sea Robert Toombs The Creed of Secession Henry Winter Davis The Peril of the Republic A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax The Confiscation of Slave Property . . Dedication of the Washington Monument Benjamin H. Hill A Plea for Union Sumner and the South John J. Ingalls The Undiscovered Country The Nomination of Grant The Sermon on the Mount Benjamin Harrison Inaugural Address The Agencies of Modern Prosperity Eulogy of the Republican Party The Republic Never Retreats Farragut at Mobile Our Pilgrim Mothers 171 179 191 201 Sir John A. MacDonald The Treaty of Washington The Greatness and Destiny of Canada Sir Charles Tupper The Protection of the Fisheries Gladstone's Elements of Greatness Riel and the Government . Lyman Beecher The Sacredness of the Sabbath The Greatness and the Weakness of Daniel Webster Lincoln Dead and a Nation in Grief The Union and the Constitution Tribulations in Tennessee Thomas DeWitt Talmage The Upper Forces in American History The Heroism of the Unknown Joseph Story The Destiny of the Indian Hasty Work is 'Prentice Work Clear Vision versus Education Man the Reformer Wendell Phillips and his Life Labor Efficient but not Sufficient Charles Francis Adams The Veterans of Gettysburg Manual Training for the Colored Race |