World's Best Orations, Volume 4


Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! Do we not all feel the magic of the power, and when occasionally we are permitted to listen to a great orator how completely we lose ourselves and yield in willing submission to the imperious and impetuous flow of his speech!

We have not confined ourselves to any one profession or field of eloquence. The pulpit, the bar, the halls of legislation, and the popular assembly have each and all been called upon for their best contributions. The single test has been, is it oratory? the single question, is there eloquence? The reader and student of every class will therefore find within these pages that which will satisfy his particular taste and desire in the matter of oratory. - Summary by David J. Brewer

Capítulos

Dictators in American Politics Part 1 - Henry Clay 21:31
Dictators in American Politics Part 2 - Henry Clay 18:16
On the Expunging Resolutions - Henry Clay 9:15
On the Seminole War - Henry Clay 13:22
The Emancipation of South America - Henry Clay 31:50
«The American System» and the Home Market - Henry Clay 33:53
In Favor of a Paternal Policy of Internal Improvements - Henry Clay 11:34
For «Free Trade and Seamen's Rights» - Henry Clay 11:50
The Greek Revolution - Henry Clay 7:56
The Noblest Public Virtue - Henry Clay 5:14
Sixty Years of Sectionalism - Henry Clay 29:14
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and «Expansion» - John M. Clayton 18:24
Justice the Supreme Law of Nations - John M. Clayton 3:50
Cuba and «Manifest Destiny» - Jeremiah Clemens 16:51
Democracies and Subject Colonies - Cleon 9:28
First Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland 14:45
Federal Power and Local Rights - De Witt Clinton 10:16
Against the Military Spirit - De Witt Clinton 22:00
«Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!» - Howell Cobb 8:42
The Man on the Tower - William Cobbett 13:36
Free Trade with All Nations - Richard Cobden 31:42
Small States and Great Achievements - Richard Cobden 6:45
Answering William J. Bryan - William Bourke Cockran 18:48
Prosecuting Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Edward Coke 20:24
The Sacredness of Matrimony - John Duke Coleridge 15:14
The Confiscation of Rebel Property - Schuyler Colfax 11:12
Nominating General Grant for a Third Term - Roscoe Conkling 15:34
The Stalwart Standpoint - Roscoe Conkling 15:54
Against Senator Sumner - Roscoe Conkling 4:24
Free Speech Necessary for Good Government - Benjamin Constant 14:03
Ultimate America Part 1 - Joseph Cook 17:37
Ultimate America Part 2 - Joseph Cook 15:39
Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin 25:00
Against Dismembering Mexico Part 1 - Thomas Corwin 24:41
Against Dismembering Mexico Part 2 - Thomas Corwin 20:50
Eloquence and the Fine Arts - Victor Cousin 25:44
Liberty an Inalienable Right - Victor Cousin 6:56
The Foundations of Law - Victor Cousin 11:06
True Politics - Victor Cousin 9:33
Against the Iron-Clad Oath - Samuel Sullivan Cox 28:40
The Sermon on the Mount - Samuel Sullivan Cox 7:49
Stephen A. Douglas and His Place in History - Samuel Sullivan Cox 10:51
His Speech at the Stake - Thomas Cranmer 14:47
Against the Fear of Death - Thomas Cranmer 2:58
Forgiveness of Injuries - Thomas Cranmer 3:55
The Issue and Control of Money under the Constitution - William Harris Crawford 11:55
At the Unveiling of Garibaldi's Statue - Francesco Crispi 12:25
Socialism and Discontent - Francesco Crispi 6:37
Henry Clay and the Nineteenth-Century Spirit - John Jordan Crittenden 17:18
Against Warring on the Weak - John Jordan Crittenden 10:08
A Raccoon in a Bag - David Crockett 8:52
Debating Whether or Not to Become King of England - Oliver Cromwell 22:59
Against Monopolies - Sir John Culpeper 10:44
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 1 - John Philpot Curran 24:39
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 2 - John Philpot Curran 32:21
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 3 - John Philpot Curran 20:13
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 4 - John Philpot Curran 26:48
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 5 - John Philpot Curran 22:23
For Peter Finnerty and Free Speech - John Philpot Curran 7:42
The Diversions of a Marquis - John Philpot Curran 11:28
Against Pensions - John Philpot Curran 9:23
England and English Liberties — In the case of Rowan - John Philpot Curran 12:55
The Liberties of the Indolent - John Philpot Curran 7:23
His Farewell to the Irish Parliament - John Philpot Curran 15:09
On Government by Attachment - John Philpot Curran 15:25
Presidential Criticisms of Congress - Benjamin Robbins Curtis 17:24
His Sovereignty Under His Hat - George William Curtis 7:39
Wendell Phillips as a History-Maker - George William Curtis 11:20
The Primordial Rights of the Universal People - Caleb Cushing 22:34
England and America in China - Caleb Cushing 5:09
The Extermination of the Indians - Caleb Cushing 14:05
Unshackled Living - Cyprian 20:04
The Infinite Artifices of Nature - Cyril 11:32
«The Pennsylvania Idea» - George M. Dallas 18:10
The Secret of True Greatness - Peter Damiani 4:41
New Testament History as Allegory - Peter Damiani 4:15
At the Dedication of the Washington Monument - John W. Daniel 19:39
Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor? - John W. Daniel 20:41