America: II. 1818-1865. Vol. IX. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations

It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here thus far so nobly advanced.

Abraham
Lincoln

The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IX

America: II (1818–1865)

Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Index to Authors

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Robert Young Hayne: On the Foote Resolution
Daniel Webster: I. The First Bunker Hill Monument Oration; II. In Reply to Hayne; III. On the Clay Compromise
Henry Clay: I. The Emancipation of South America; II. His Attack on Jackson; III. On His Own Compromise Measures
John Caldwell Calhoun: I. On the Expunging Resolution; II. On the Clay Compromise Measures
Thomas Corwin: On the Mexican War
Alexander Hamilton Stephens: The South and the Public Domain
William Cullen Bryant: His Welcome to Kossuth
Rufus Choate: His Eulogy of Webster
Charles Sumner: On the Crime Against Kansas
Preston Smith Brooks: In Defense of His Attack on Sumner
William Henry Seward: His “Irrepressible Conflict” Speech
John Brown: His Speech to the Court at His Trial
William Lloyd Garrison: On the Death of John Brown
William Lowndes Yancey: His Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention
Jefferson Davis: On Withdrawing from the Union
Robert Toombs: On Resigning from the Senate
Abraham Lincoln: I. The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech; II. In the First Debate with Douglas; III. His Farewell Words in Springfield; IV. The First Inaugural Address; V. The Speech at Gettysburg; VI. The Second Inaugural Address
Stephen Arnold Douglas: In the First Debate with Lincoln