American Eloquence, Volume IV

American Eloquence, Volume IV

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Title: American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) Studies In American Political History (1897)
Author: Various
Release Date: March 17, 2005 [EBook #15394]
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Produced by David Widger

AMERICAN ELOQUENCE
STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY

Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston
Reedited by James Albert Woodburn

Volume IV. (of 4)
VII.--CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
VIII.--FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
IX.--FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
VII.--CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.
JEFFERSON DAVIS Inaugural Address. Montgomery, Ala., February 18, 1867.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS The "Corner-Stone" Address --Atheneum, Savannah, Ga., March 2, 1861.
JOHN CALEB BRECKENRIDGE and EDWIN D. BAKER Suppression Of Insurrection --United States Senate, August 1, 1861.
CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM On The War And Its Conduct --House Of Representatives, January 14, 1863.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Address At Liverpool, October 16, 1863.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Gettysburgh Address, November 19, 1863.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.
HENRY WINTER DAVIS On Reconstruction ; The First Republican Theory --House Of Representatives, March 22, 1864.
GEORGE H. PENDLETON On Reconstruction ; The Democratic Theory --House Of Representatives, May 4, 1864.
THADDEUS STEVENS On Reconstruction; Radical Republican Theory --House Of Representatives-December 18, 1865.
HENRY J. RAYMOND . On Reconstruction; Administration Republican Theory --House Of Representatives, December 21, 1865.
THADDEUS STEVENS On The First Reconstruction Bill --House Of Representatives, January 3, 1867.
VIII.--FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
HENRY CLAY On The American System --In The United States Senate, February 2-6,1832.
FRANK H. HURD. A Tariff For Revenue Only --House Of Representatives, February 18, 1881.
IX.--FINANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL On The Remonetization Of Silver --United States Senate, January 28, 1878.
JAMES G. BLAINE On The Remonetization Of Silver --United States Senate, February 7, 1878
JOHN SHERMAN On Silver Coinage And Treasury Notes --United States Senate, June 5, 1890.
JOHN P. JONES On Silver Coinage And Treasury Notes --United States Senate, May 12, 1810.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS On The Spoils System And The Progress Of Civil Service Reform --Address Before The American Social Science Association, Saratoga, N. Y., September 8, 1881.
CARL SCHURZ On The Necessity And Progress Of Civil Service Reform --Address At The Annual Meeting Of The National Civil Service Reform League, Chicago, Ills., December 12, 1894.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
GEORGE W. CURTIS--Frontispiece From a painting by SAMUEL LAWRENCE.
JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE From a photograph.
HENRY W. BEECHER . Wood-engraving from photograph.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wood-engraving from photograph.
JAMES G. BLAINE Wood-engraving from photograph.

INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
The fourth and last volume of the American Eloquent e deals with four great subjects of discussion in our history,--the Civil War and Reconstruction, Free Trade and Protection, Finance, and Civil Service Reform. In the division on the Civil War there has been substituted in the new edition, for Mr. Schurz's speech on the Democratic War Policy the spirited discussion between Breckenridge and Baker on the suppression of insurrection. The scene in which these two speeches were delivered in the United States Senate at the opening of the Civil war is full of historic and dramatic interest, while the speeches themselves are examples of superior oratory. Mr. Schurz appears to advantage in another part of the volume in his address on Civil Service Reform.
The speeches of Thaddeus Stevens and Henry J. Raymond, delivered at the opening of the Reconstruction struggle under President Johnson, are also new material in this edition. They are fairly representative of two distinct views in that period of the controversy. These two speeches are substituted for the Garfield-Blackburn discussion over a "rider" to an appropriation bill designed to forbid federal control of elections within the States. This discussion was only incidental to the problem of reconstruction, and may be said to have occurred at a time (1879) subsequent to the close of the Reconstruction period proper.
The material on Free Trade and Protection has been left unchanged for the reason that it appears to the present editor quite useless to attempt to secure better material on the tariff discussion. There might be added valuable similar material from later speeches on the tariff, but the two speeches of Clay and Hurd may be said to contain the essential merits of the long-standing tariff debate.
The section of the volume devoted to Finance and Civil Service Reform is entirely new. The two speeches of Curtis and Schurz are deemed sufficient to set forth the merits of the movement for the reform of the Civil Service. The magnitude of our financial controversies during a century of our history precludes the possibility of securing an adequate representation of them in speeches which might come within the scope of such a volume as this. It has,