HENRY CLAY
On The American System
--In The United States Senate, February 2-6,1832.

FRANK H. HURD.
A Tariff For Revenue Only
--House Of Representatives, February 18, 1881.

IX.--FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

JUSTIN S. MORRILL
On The Remonetization Of Silver
--United States Senate, January 28, 1878.

JAMES G. BLAINE
On The Remonetization Of Silver
--United States Senate, February 7, 1878

JOHN SHERMAN
On Silver Coinage And Treasury Notes
--United States Senate, June 5, 1890.

JOHN P. JONES
On Silver Coinage And Treasury Notes
--United States Senate, May 12, 1810.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
On The Spoils System And The Progress Of Civil Service Reform
--Address Before The American Social Science Association,
Saratoga, N. Y., September 8, 1881.

CARL SCHURZ
On The Necessity And Progress Of Civil Service Reform
--Address At The Annual Meeting Of The National
Civil Service Reform League, Chicago, Ills.,
December 12, 1894.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GEORGE W. CURTIS--Frontispiece
From a painting by SAMUEL LAWRENCE.

JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE
From a photograph.

HENRY W. BEECHER .
Wood-engraving from photograph.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Wood-engraving from photograph.

JAMES G. BLAINE
Wood-engraving from photograph.

INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.

The fourth and last volume of the American Eloquent e deals with
four great subjects of discussion in our history,--the Civil War and
Reconstruction, Free Trade and Protection, Finance, and Civil Service
Reform. In the division on the Civil War there has been substituted in
the new edition, for Mr. Schurz's speech on the Democratic War
Policy the spirited discussion between Breckenridge and Baker on the
suppression of insurrection. The scene in which these two speeches were
delivered in the United States Senate at the opening of the Civil war
is full of historic and dramatic interest, while the speeches themselves
are examples of superior oratory. Mr. Schurz appears to advantage in
another part of the volume in his address on Civil Service Reform.

The speeches of Thaddeus Stevens and Henry J. Raymond, delivered at the
opening of the Reconstruction struggle under President Johnson, are
also new material in this edition. They are fairly representative of