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Title: American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4)
Studies In American Political History (1897)

Author: Various

Release Date: March 17, 2005 [EBook #15393]

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AMERICAN ELOQUENCE

STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY

Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston

Reedited by James Albert Woodburn

Volume III. (of 4)

V. --THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE (Continued from Vol. II.)
VI.--SECESSION.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

SALMON PORTLAND CHASE On The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
--United States Senate, February 3, 1854.

EDWARD EVERETT On The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
--United States Senate, February 8, 1854.

STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS On The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
--United States Senate, March 3, 1854.

CHARLES SUMNER On The Crime Against Kansas
--United States Senate, May 20, 1856.

PRESTON S. BROOKS On The Sumner Assault
--House Of Representatives, July 14, 1856.

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN On The Property Doctrine And Slavery In The
Territories --United States Senate, March 11, 1858.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN On The Dred Scott Decision
--Springfield, Ills., June 26, 1857.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN On His Nomination To The United States Senate
--At The Republican State Convention, June 16,1858.

THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
DOUGLAS In Reply To Lincoln--Freeport, Ills., August 27, 1858.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD
On The Irrepressible Conflict--Rochester, N. Y., October 25, 1858.

VI.-SECESSION.

JOHN PARKER HALE On Secession; Moderate Republican Opinion
--United States Senate, December 5, 1860.

ALFRED IVERSON On Secession; Secessionist Opinion
--United States Senate, December 5, 1860.

BENJAMIN WADE On Secession, And The State Of The Union; Radical
Republican Opinion--United States Senate, December 17, 1860.

JOHN JORDON CRITTENDEN On The Crittenden Compromise; Border State
Unionist Opinion