The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for Exhibitions |
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... Party . A Patent Gospel .... The Peaceful Remedy .. Tribute to the Supreme Court . The Price of Peace ...... The Cordon of Free States . A Free Press ...... The Garrison of Sumter . The Causes of Separation ... The Attitude of President ...
... Party . A Patent Gospel .... The Peaceful Remedy .. Tribute to the Supreme Court . The Price of Peace ...... The Cordon of Free States . A Free Press ...... The Garrison of Sumter . The Causes of Separation ... The Attitude of President ...
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... Party . Personal Responsibility of the Soldier . Rural Volunteers .. Duty of the Invading Army .. The Benefit of Reverses . The Problem for the United States . The Constitution Equal to the Crisis . The Danger of Exasperating the Rebels ...
... Party . Personal Responsibility of the Soldier . Rural Volunteers .. Duty of the Invading Army .. The Benefit of Reverses . The Problem for the United States . The Constitution Equal to the Crisis . The Danger of Exasperating the Rebels ...
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... parties , some Philip or Alexander , some Cæsar or Na- poleon , would arise and cut the Gordian knot , and solve the problem of the capacity of man for self - government 2 SPEECHES OF THE TIMES . 25 Dissolution of the Union Clay.
... parties , some Philip or Alexander , some Cæsar or Na- poleon , would arise and cut the Gordian knot , and solve the problem of the capacity of man for self - government 2 SPEECHES OF THE TIMES . 25 Dissolution of the Union Clay.
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... party ; but his own principle is narrower than any attributed to them . They object to the influence of emigrants from abroad ; he objects to the influence of American citizens at home , when exerted in States or Territories where they ...
... party ; but his own principle is narrower than any attributed to them . They object to the influence of emigrants from abroad ; he objects to the influence of American citizens at home , when exerted in States or Territories where they ...
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... party . In the earlier stages of the abolition agitation , it may have been otherwise ; but not so now . This whole controversy has now become but one of mere sectionalism , a war for political domination , in which slavery performs but ...
... party . In the earlier stages of the abolition agitation , it may have been otherwise ; but not so now . This whole controversy has now become but one of mere sectionalism , a war for political domination , in which slavery performs but ...
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Popular passages
Page 248 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 336 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 422 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Page 338 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 259 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 205 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 338 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 415 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 84 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Page 255 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud, To rise before me - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!