Memorable American speeches [electronic resource] / collected and edited by John Vance Cheney.
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Chicago :
Lakeside Press : R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.,
1907-1910.
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| Series: | Lakeside classics ;
v. 5-8. |
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Colonial period. James Otis: On the writs of assistance ; James Wilson: In vindication of the colonies ; Joseph Warren: In commemoration of the Boston massacre ; Patrick Henry: An individual declaration of war ; Samuel Adams: On American independence ; David Ramsay: The advantages of American independence ; Patrick Henry: On the Federal constitution ; Edmund Randolph: On the Federal constitution ; James Madison: On the expediency of adopting the Federal constitution, Power to lay taxes ; Alexander Hamilton: On the compromises of the Constitution, On the Senate of the United States, On section VIII of the Constitution ; FIsher Ames: On biennial elections
- v. 2. Democracy and nationality. George Washington: Farewell address ; John Randolph: On the militia bill ; Henry Clay: On the war of 1812 ; Daniel Webster: The reply to Hayne
- v. 3. Slavery. William Pinckney: On the Missouri question ; Wendell Phillipps: On the philosophy of the abolition question ; Stephen A. Douglas: On the Kansas-Nebraska bill ; Charles Sumner: The crime against Kansas
- v. 4. Secession, war, reconstruction. John Parker Hale: On secession ; Benjamin Franklin Wade: On secession ; Robert Tooms: On secession ; Samuel Sullivan Cox: On secession ; Abraham Lincoln: On the declaration of independence ; John Cabell Breckenridge [and] Edwin Dickinson Baker: Suppression of the insurrection ; Henry Ward Beecher: Speech at Liverpool ; Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg address ; George Hunt Pendleton: On reconstruction ; Thaddeus Stevens: On reconstruction.