By FRANK MOORE.

“There were Gyants in thoſe days … mightie men, which were of olde, men of renowne.”

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The Work will be ready for Subscribers in a few months.

The design of this work is to furnish a cheap, convenient and popular Library Edition, of the most celebrated speeches and addresses, forensic and parliamentary, of the principal orators and statesmen of America. It will contain many which have never before been included in any collection, and are not readily accessible to the student or the general reader. As far as attainable, specimens of the eloquence of the Continental Congress will be given, illustrating the principles and portraying the sufferings of the men of the Revolution; as well as the Debates in Congress, since the year 1789, under the present organization of the Government. Selections from the earnest and able discussions in the State Conventions, of the principles involved in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, will also form a portion of the work, and thus render it valuable as a means of acquiring an understanding of that important instrument.

The collection will include the Oration of Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts, delivered at Philadelphia on the first day of August, 1776, now for the first time reprinted in America, and hitherto almost totally unknown; all the speeches of Patrick Henry; the Address to Great Britain of 1775, by Richard Henry lee, and that of 1774, by John Jay; Judge Drayton’s celebrated charge to the Grand Jury of Charleston, South Carolina; James Wilson’s Vindication of the Colonies, in 1775; General Joseph Warren’s Oration on the Boston Massacre; William Livingston’s Speech to the New Jersey Legislature, 1777; John Rutledge’s Speeches to the South Carolina Assembly, 1776-1782; John Adams’ and Josiah Quincy, Jr’s Defence of the Soldiers of the Boston Massacre; Washington’s Inaugural and Farewell Addresses; John Dickinson’s Speech, in 1765, before the Pennsylvania House of Assembly, and the Declaration of Congress on taking up arms, 1775; Dr. John Witherspoon’s Speeches in the Continental Congress, complete; Doctor David Ramsay’s Oration on the Advantages of American Independence; Doctor Benjamin Rush’s Address, “The Revolution is not over,” 1787; Hamilton’s Speeches on the Federal Constitution, and in the Case of Harry Croswell; Fisher Ames on the British Treaty, and other specimens of his oratory; the Speech of R. Y. Hayne, of South Carolina, and Mr. Webster’s celebrated Reply, as well as many other of that distinguished statesman’s forensic and parliamentary efforts; Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Jonathan Robbins, and his Speech on the Federal Constitution; the best Speeches of Mr. Clay, and selections from the eloquence of Red Jacket, Tecumseh, and other Indian orators. Specimens will also be given of

A brief Biographical Memoir will precede the selection from the works of each orator, and the whole will be illustrated with historical and explanatory notes.