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 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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... slavery controversy , and was distinguished by a brilliant galaxy of Congres- sional and popular orators , came four years of war , the logical result of the slavery contest and the fiercest and most destructive conflict of recent times ...
... slavery controversy , and was distinguished by a brilliant galaxy of Congres- sional and popular orators , came four years of war , the logical result of the slavery contest and the fiercest and most destructive conflict of recent times ...
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... slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the bottom and climbed to the top . Where he got his genius it is not easy to say , but genius of a high and original type he possessed . He was one of those men whom ...
... slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the bottom and climbed to the top . Where he got his genius it is not easy to say , but genius of a high and original type he possessed . He was one of those men whom ...
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... slavery and rose to eminence by their own efforts . Frederick Douglass was the orator of Emancipation , and Booker T. Washington is the orator of Education and Civilization of the Negro Race , and the head of the Tuskeegee Institute in ...
... slavery and rose to eminence by their own efforts . Frederick Douglass was the orator of Emancipation , and Booker T. Washington is the orator of Education and Civilization of the Negro Race , and the head of the Tuskeegee Institute in ...
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