The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together with Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceCaleb Bingham and Company and sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Cornhill, 1817 - 300 pagina's The Columbian Orator, Caleb Bingham's classic work of 1797, contains both the oratory of the American Founding Fathers alongside imagined speeches from gifted orators of past epochs. Exceptional both for its contents and greater impact upon the fledgling society of the United States, this compendium of fine speech carries great historical and cultural value. As well as American speeches, this collection contains historic addresses from Europe, ranging back to ancient Rome. From about 1800 to 1820 it was recited and taught widely in schools across the US, instilling the importance of both patriotic pride in the new nation and the value of eloquent speaking. Bingham hoped to create a new generation of passionate American speakers, that leadership in the future would carry a wellspring of honed rhetorical talent from which to draw. Notably, several entries in this collection articulate opposition to slavery, which at the time was legal and widely practiced in the USA. It discusses the lack of ethics enslavement entails, thereby capturing the hearts and inspiring the-then fledgling abolitionist movement of America. Bingham's work was paid tribute in later decades by talented speakers such as Frederick Douglass, who read this book many times as an enslaved child, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who authored the famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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... blood . Shall I go home , and behold my unhappy mother all in tears and despair ? " " Though Gracchus had a very ill design in that speech , and his view was to excite the populace against their governors , yet ( as Cicero tells us ) ...
... blood , and to cover it with desolation . At every step , as the evi- dence of the crown advanced , my innocency has bright- ened . So far from inflaming the minds of men to se- dition and outrage , all the witnesses have concurred ...
... blood runs high , Who picks a quarrel if you step awry , Who can't a jest , or hint , or look endure : What's he ? What ? Touch - paper to be sure . What are our poets , take them as they fall , Good , bad , rich , poor , much read ...
... blood ; and , to spare a small number of vile wretches , expose all good men to destruction . • Do not imagine , Fathers , that it was by arms our ancestors rendered this Commonwealth so great , from so small a beginning . If it had ...
... blood running , you will soon find me about you to revenge my brothers ' blood . Although I am low and very small , I wi " gripe hold of your enemy's heel , that he cannot run so fast , and so light , as if he had nothing at his heels ...
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