The world's famous orations
1906
On the Foote Resolution (1830) / Hayne -- The first Bunker Hill Monument oration (1825) / Webster -- In reply to Hayne (1830) / Webster -- On the Clay Compromise [footnote: "Otherwise known as 'The Seventh of March speech' "] / Webster -- The emancipatiion of South America (1818) / Clay -- His attack on Jackson (1834) / Clay -- On his own compromise measures (1850) / Clay -- On the Expunging Resolution (1837) / Calhoun -- On the Clay Compromise measures (1850) / Calhoun -- On the Mexican War (1847) / Corwin -- The South and the public domain (1850) / Alexander H. Stephens -- His welcome to Kossuth (1851) / Bryant -- His eulogy of Webster (1853) / Rufus Choate -- On the crime against Kansas (1856) / Sumner -- In defense of his attack on Sumner (1856) / Preston S. Brooks -- His "irrepressible conflict" speech (1858) / Seward -- His speech to the court at his trial (1859) / John Brown -- On the death of John Brown (1859) / Garrison -- His speech of protest in the Charleston Convention (1860) / Yancey -- On withdrawing from the Union (1861) / Jefferson Davis -- On resigning from the Senate (1861) / Toombs -- The "House divided against itself" speech (1858) / Lincoln -- In the first debate with Douglas (1858) / Lincoln -- His farewell words in Springfield (1861) / Lincoln -- The first inaugural address (1861) / Lincoln -- The speech at Gettysburg (1863) / Lincoln -- The second inaugural address (1865) / Lincoln -- In the first debate with Lincoln (1858) / Stephen A. Douglas Bound in cloth, with leather spine 18
