American Eloquence, Volume 4 / Studies In American Political History (1897)
GEORGE W. CURTIS 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.
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 two distinct views in that period of the controversy. These two speeches are substituted for the Garfield-Blackburn discussion over a rider to an appropriation bill designed to forbid federal control of elections within the States. This discussion was only incidental to the problem of reconstruction, and may be said to have occurred at a time (1879) subsequent to the close of the Reconstruction period proper.
The material on Free Trade and Protection has been left unchanged for the reason that it appears to the present editor quite useless to attempt to secure better material on the tariff discussion. There might be added valuable similar material from later speeches on the tariff, but the two speeches of Clay and Hurd may be said to contain the essential merits of the long-standing tariff debate.
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AMERICAN ELOQUENCE
STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
VIII.—FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
IX.—FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
PORTRAITS
INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
VII.—CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOIS. (BORN 1809, DIED 1865.)
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OF MISSISSIPPI.' (BORN 1808, DIED 1889.)
ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS,
OF GEORGIA. (BORN 1812, DIED 1884.)
JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE, and EDWARD D. BAKER
CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM,
OF OHIO. (BORN 1820, DIED 1871.)
HENRY WARD BEECHER,
OF NEW YORK. (BORN 1813, DIED 1887.)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE GETTYSBURGH ADDRESS,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS,
HENRY WINTER DAVIS,
OF MARYLAND. (BORN 1817, DIED 1865.)
GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
OF OHIO. (BORN 1825, DIED 1889.)
THADDEUS STEVENS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. (BORN 1792, DIED 1868.)
HENRY J. RAYMOND,
OF NEW YORK. (BORN 1820, DIED 1869.)
THADDEUS STEVENS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. (BORN 1792, DIED 1868.)
VIII.—FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY. (BORN 1777, DIED 1852.)
FRANK H. HURD,
OF OHIO. (BORN 1841, DIED 1896.)
IX.—FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL,
OF VERMONT. (BORN 1810.)
JAMES G. BLAINE,
OF MAINE. (BORN 1830, DIED 1893.)
JOHN SHERMAN,
OF OHIO. (BORN 1823.)
JOHN P. JONES,
OF NEVADA. (BORN 1830.)
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,
OF NEW YORK (BORN 1824, DIED 1892.)
CARL SCHURZ,
OF NEW YORK. (BORN 1829.)
