The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Recitation and Declamation, in Schools, Academies and Colleges. With Introductory Remarks on Elocution, and Explanatory Notes

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Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, 1870 - Readers - 588 pages

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Contents

In Prospect of
46
An Appeal to the Loyalty of South Carolina
49
New England and the Union
55
Anonymous
61
W Wirt
69
S S Prentiss
75
R Y Hayne
83
T H Benton
103
The Same Concluded
110
The Men of SeventySix
116
What Good will the Monument
122
Washingtons Sword and Franklins Staff
131
Value of Popularity Lord Mansfield
134
Scorn to be Slaves J Warren
135
Loss of the Arctic H W Beecher
136
The Glory and Grandeur of Peace C Sumner
138
Ancient and Modern Productions C Sumner
139
The Abolition of the Slave Trade W Pitt
141
Let there be Light H Munn
143
True Eloquence D Webster
144
South Carolina and Massachusetts D Webster
145
African Slave Trade D Webster
147
Supposed Speech of John Adams D Webster
149
The Same Concluded D Webster
151
Influence of the Character of Washington D Webster
152
Public Opinion D Webster
154
The Murderers Secret D Webster
155
The Same Concluded D Webster
156
Defence of American Clergymen D Webster
157
Peaceable Secession impossible D Webster
158
Liberty and Union D Webster
160
Events Great because of their Results D Webster
161
The Future of America D Webster
163
Liberty of Speech D Webster
164
Washington to the Present Generation D Webster
165
The Platform of the Constitution D Webster
166
The Veterans of the Battle of Bunker Hill D Webster
168
Reply to the Reflections of Mr Walpole Lord Chatham
170
Speech against the American War Lord Chatham
171
Speech against Employing Indians in War Lord Chatham
172
Honorable Ambition H Clay
174
The Noblest Public Virtue H Clay
175
Plea for the Union H Clay
176
National Glory H Clay
178
Brutus on the Death of Cæsar Shakspeare
179
Hamlets Address to the Players Shakspeare
180
Falstaffs Description of his Soldiers Shakspeare
181
Soliloquy on Character Shakspeare
182
Death of Hamilton Dr Nott
183
Invective against Mr Flood H Grattan
184
Reply to Mr Corry H Grattan
187
Speech of Titus Quinctius to the Romans Anonymous
188
The Boston Massacre John Hancock
190
Enterprise of New England E Burke
191
The Right of England to Tax America E Burke
192
Description of Junius E Burke
193
True Statesmanship E Burke
194
The Queen of France and the Spirit of Chivalry E Burke
195
Peroration of Opening Speech against Hastings E Burke
196
Peroration of Closing Speech against Hastings E Burke
198
The Crisis of the Nation Cicero
199
Extract from Demosthenes Demosthenes
200
Extract from Demosthenes on the Crown Demosthenes
202
Queen Elizabeth J Mackintosh
203
The Free Press J Mackintosh
205
The Liberty of the Press Lord Erskine
206
British Tyranny in India Lord Erskine
207
Declaration of Right H Grattan
209
Politics and Religion J M Mason
210
WarSong of the Greeks 1822
217
Ames
262
Farewell Address at New Orleans
266
Conclusion of Address at New Orleans
267
Reconstruction of the Union
268
Speech at the Union Square Meeting
269
The Perpetuity of the Union
270
Our Reformers
271
The Battle of Civilizations
281
Secession the Death of Slavery
282
Commencement of Antislavery Movement
283
Touch not Slavery
284
Ohio
285
The Controversy
286
The Pretext of Rebellion
287
No Neutrals only Patriots or Traitors
288
J Dryden
289
Hireling Laborers of the North
290
The Death of Slavery the Life of the Nation
291
The BattleField
296
Fall of Warsaw
303
Our Countrys Call
322
On the Shores of Tennessee
328
The Cavalry Charge
334
The Last Charge
340
Hamlets Soliloquy
344
The Black Regiment at Port Hudson
346
Wolsey on being cast off by the King
350
The Fireman
356
New England
362
Whittling 368 Hotspurs Account of a
368
How to have what we Like
369
The three Black Crows
370
Helps to Read
371
B F Butler РАСБ 375 B F Butler 376 B F Butler
376
S Dickinson 379 D S Dickinson
381
Frémont
382
R H Dana Jr 383 R H Dana Jr
385
G Putnam 387 G Putnam
388
J A Andrew 390 J A Andrew
391
G S Hillard
394
Stone
396
Swain
397
W Phillips 397 W Phillips 399 W Phillips
399
Napoleon
401
S A Douglas
407
A H Stephens
410
H Wilson 410 H Wilson 412 H Wilson
412
H Wilson
414
J Holt
421
G Thompson
425
G W Curtis 425 G W Curtis 426 G W Curtis
426
O W Holmes 434 O W Holmes
434
E Everett
441
H W Beecher
445
Trumbull 445 L Trumbull
446
Baker
449
G S Boutwell
451
N P Banks
453
T Parker 453 T Parker
454
S K Lothrop
456
Political Morality 301 Ideas the Life of a People 302 The Same Concluded 303 The War Policy of the President 304 The Duty of the Hour 305 The f...
457
Benton T
493
G H Boker
495
J Pierpont
496
Plea of Sergeant Buzfuz
502
Fuss at Fires
509
Music for the Million
515
The Height of the Ridiculous
521
Shakspeare
533
Horace Smith
536
Byrom Byrom 536
537
STANDARD DIALOGUES 372 Prince Arthur of Bretagne
541
Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius Shakspeare 541 Shakspeare
545
Dogberrys Charge
548
Indigestion
551
The Two Robbers
553
The Miser
555
The Letter
557
The Frenchmans Lesson
558
How to tell Bad News 381 The Choleric Father 382 Rolla and Alonzo 383 The English Traveller 884 The Embryo Lawyer Shakspeare 548 Anonym...
559
R B Sheridan
563
Kotzebue
564
Anonymous Allingham
566

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Page 321 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 211 - O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Page 254 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
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Page 342 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are...
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Page 342 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
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