Representative American orations to illustrate American political history; edited, with introductions
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REPRESENTATIVE
ORATIONSAMERICAN
TO ILLUSTRATE
POLITICAL HISTORYAMERICAN
WITH INTRODUCTIONSEDITED,
BY
ALEXANDER JOHNSTON
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THEPROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE
COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK & LONDON
SONSG. P. PUTNAM'S
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SonsG. P. Putnam's
New YorkCONTENTS.
v.—THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE.
The Anti-Slavery Struggle 3
Wendell Phillips 33
Faneuil Dh-On the Murder of Hall, Boston,Lovejov ;
CRMBER 8, 1837.
C. Calhoun 46John
the MarchOn Slavery Senate, 4, 1850.Question ;
Daniel Webster 84
the and the Union Senate of theOn Constitution ;
MarchUnited States, 7, 1850.
Henry Clay 118
O.s the Compromise op United States Senai r,1850 ; Julv
22, 1850.
We.ndell Phillips . . . . . . .135
On the I'lULOsopHv ok the Abolition Movement, before
THE Massachusetts Anti-Slavery atSociety, Boston,
January 27, 1853.
Salmon Portland Chase...... 183
OnTHE Kansas-Nebraska Bill
; Senate, Februarys, '854.
Charles Sumner 21a
On the Bill May
; Senate, 25, 1854.
Stephen Arnold Douglas 218
O I THE Kansas-Nebraska Bill March
; Senate, 3, 1854.
Cha) les Sumner 256
IO THE Crime against Kansas May
; Senate, 1856.19-20,
iiiCONTEXTS.iv
S. BrooksPreston 289
ofOn tub Sumner Assault ; House Representatives,
July 14, 1856.
Anson Burlingame 297
House opIn Defence of Massachusetts Representa-
;
tives, June 21, 1856.
Thomas L. Clingman 307
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inOn Debates House ofCongress; Representatives,
July 9, 1856.

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