st
terms. Notice how, in the three extracts here quoted, the feeling is
more intense in each succeeding one. Analyze the style. Consider the
words, the phrases, the sentences in length and structure. Explain the
close relation of the circumstances and the speaker with the material
and the style. What was the purpose of each?

Sir, let it be to the honor of Congress that in these days of
political strife and controversy, we have laid aside for once
the sin that most easily besets us, and, with unanimity of
counsel, and with singleness of heart and of purpose, have
accomplished for our country one measure of unquestionable
good.

DANIEL WEBSTER: _Uniform System of Bankruptcy_, 1840

Lord Chatham addressed the House of Lords in protest against the
inhumanities of some of the early British efforts to suppress the
American Revolution.

I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers
of the Gospel, and pious pastors of our Church--I conjure
them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of
their God. I appeal to the wisdom and law of this learned
bench, to defend and support the justice of their country. I
call upon the Bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of
their lawn; upon the learned Judges, to interpose their
purity upon the honor of your Lordships, to reverence the
dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call
upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the
national character. I invoke the genius of the Constitution.
From the tapestry that adorns these walls the immortal
ancestor of this noble Lord frowns with indignation at the
disgrace of his country....

I again call upon your Lordships, and the united powers of
the state, to examine it thoroughly and decisively, and to
stamp upon it an indelible stigma of the public abhorrence.
And I again implore those holy prelates of our religion to do
away with these iniquities from among us! Let them perform a
lustration; let them purify this House, and this country,
from this sin.

My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say
more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have
said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor
reposed my head on my pillow, without giving vent to my
eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous
principles.