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American forum : speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900 / edited by Ernest J. Wrage [and] Barnet Baskerville.

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Other Authors: Wrage, Ernest J. (Editor), Baskerville, Barnet (Editor)
Other title:Speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [1960]
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
United States > Civilization.
Civilization.
United States.
Speeches.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. To form a more perfect union ; Ratification of the federal Constitution ; Against the federal Constitution / Patrick Henry
  • For the federal Constitution / James Madison
  • The basis of political society: a spectrum of views ; Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious / David Daggett
  • First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson
  • Basis of the Senate / Daniel Webster
  • The office of the people in art, government, and religion / George Bancroft
  • Religious liberalism vs. orthodoxy ; Unitarian Christianity / William Ellery Channing
  • The faith once delivered to the saints / Lyman Beecher
  • The essential nature of the Constitution ; The compact theory of the Constitution / John Caldwell Calhoun
  • The Constitution not a compact between sovereign states / Daniel Webster
  • A house divided ; Slavery in the United States: its consistency with republican institutions and its effect upon the slave and society / Robert Toombs
  • No compromise with slavery / William Lloyd Garrison
  • A house divided / Abraham Lincoln
  • Popular sovereignty / Stephen A. Douglas
  • Reconstruction of the federal union ; Radical republican theory / Thaddeus Stevens
  • Administration theory / Henry Jarvis Raymond
  • pt. 2. Ferment in an industrial age ; Rugged individualism and social protest ; The forgotten man / William Graham Sumner
  • The crime of poverty / Henry George
  • The gospel of wealth vs. the social gospel ; Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell
  • The message of Jesus to men of wealth / George Davis Herron
  • Revealed religion vs. the religion of humanity ; Victory for God / T. Dewitt Talmage
  • Victory for man / Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Crusade for the ballot ; For the woman suffrage amendment / Susan Brownell Anthony
  • Against the woman suffrage amendment / Joseph Emerson Brown
  • The mission of America ; The march of the flag / Albert J. Beveridge
  • Imperialism / William Jennings Bryan.

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