CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

DANIEL WEBSTER,

THE LOGICIAN.

II.

EDWARD EVERETT,

THE RHETORICIAN.

III.

HENRY CLAY,

THE POLITICIAN.

IV.

JOHN C. CALHOUN,

THE METAPHYSICIAN.

V.

GEORGE MCDUFFIE,

THE IMPETUOUS.

VI.

LEWIS CASS,

THE COURTEOUS.

VII.

THOMAS H. BENTON,
THE MAGISTERIAL.

VIII.

WILLIAM C. PRESTON,
THE INSPIRED DECLAIMER.

IX.

THOMAS CORWIN,

THE NATURAL ORATOR.

PRE FACE.

ON last September was published the "ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION." Very kindly has that book been received in this country and in England. In accordance with the intimation given in the preface to that work, the present publication is made to the world with the hope that, like its predecessor, it may be deemed not altogether unworthy of discriminating scrutiny and generous regard.

Of the former volume, some have said that it would be improved if more copious extracts from the respective orators accompanied the author's analytical remarks. At the same time these critics have signified their doubts as to the possibility of procuring many authentic and characteristic specimens from some of the earliest and most efficient patriots of our land. Those doubts would deepen into despair, should the enthusiastic gentlemen referred to attempt to find what all would indeed be glad