Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides / Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE UNION AND ITS RESULTS. Edward Everett, July 4th, 1860.

OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE. Edward Everett's Oration at the Webster Statue Inauguration , 1860.

THE STATESMAN'S LABORS. Ibid.

TRUE IMMORTALITY. Ibid.

LET THE CHILDLESS WEEP. Metta Victoria Victor.

OUR COUNTRY'S GREATEST GLORY. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota , 1860.

THE UNION A HOUSEHOLD. Ibid.

INDEPENDENCE BELL. July 4th , 1776.

THE SCHOLAR'S DIGNITY. Hon. George E. Pugh July 5th , 1859.

THE CYCLES OF PROGRESS. Ibid.

A CHRISTMAS CHANT. Alfred Domett.

STABILITY OF CHRISTIANITY. Rev. T. H. Stockton, House of Representatives, March 19th , 1860.

THE TRUE HIGHER LAW. Ibid.

THE ONE GREAT NEED. Ibid.

THE SHIP AND THE BIRD. Owen Meredith.

TECUMSEH'S SPEECH TO THE CREEK WARRIORS Clairborn's Life of Gen. Dale.

TERRITORIAL EXPANSION. Hon. S. S. Cox, House of Representatives, March 19th , 1860.

MARTHA HOPKINS. Phoebe Cary.

THE BASHFUL MAN'S STORY. Charles Matthews.

THE MATTER-OF-FACT MAN. Anon.

RICH AND POOR. Joseph Barber.

SEEING THE ECLIPSE. Anon.

THE BEAUTIES OF THE LAW.

GE-LANG! GIT UP! New Orleans Delta.

THE RATS OF LIFE. Charles T. Congdon.

"THE CREOWNIN' GLORY OF THE UNITED STATES." Knickerbocker Magazine.

THREE FOOLS. C. H. Spurgeon.

WASHINGTON. Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, Feb. 22d, 1860.

THE SAME.

THE SAME. (2)

OUR GREAT INHERITANCE. John J. Crittenden, 1860.

EULOGIUM ON HENRY CLAY. Lincoln, 1852.

OHIO. Bancroft's Oration at Cleveland, Sept. 10th, 1860.

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. Ibid.

OUR DOMAIN. Ibid.

SYSTEMS OF BELIEF. Rev. W. H. Milburn, 1860.

THE INDIAN CHIEF.

THE INDEPENDENT FARMER. W. W. Fosdick.

MRS. GRAMMAR'S BALL. Anon.

HOW THE MONEY COMES.

THE FUTURE OF THE FASHIONS. Punch.

LOYALTY TO LIBERTY OUR ONLY HOPE. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota.

OUR COUNTRY FIRST, LAST, AND ALWAYS. Ibid.

BRITISH INFLUENCE. John Randolph.

DEFENSE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. Henry Clay.

NATIONAL HATREDS ARE BARBAROUS. Rufus Choate.

MURDER WILL OUT. Daniel Webster.

STRIVE FOR THE BEST.

EARLY RISING. John G. Saxe.

DEEDS OF KINDNESS.

THE GATES OF SLEEP. Dr. John Henry.

THE BUGLE. Tennyson.

A HOODISH GEM.

PURITY OF THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE. By Hon. Henry Wilson. 1859.

OLD AGE. Theodore Parker.

BEAUTIFUL, AND AS TRUE AS BEAUTIFUL.

THE DELUGE.

THE WORM OF THE STILL.

MAN'S CONNECTION WITH THE INFINITE.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE EAGLE.

WASHINGTON. S. S. Cox.

AMERICA vs. ENGLAND. David Dudley Field.

IF WE KNEW. By Ruth Benton.

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BEADLE'S

DIME

NATIONAL SPEAKER

EMBODYING

GEMS OF ORATORY AND WIT,

PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO

AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND FIRESIDES.


REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.


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118 WILLIAM STREET.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
By BEADLE AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

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