American forum: speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900, edited by Ernest J. Wrage [and] Barnet Baskerville.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Harper [1960]Description: 377 p. 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 815.082
LOC classification:
  • PS662 .W7
Contents:
pt. 1. To form a more perfect union ; Ratification of the federal Constitution ; Against the federal Constitution / Patrick Henry -- For the federal Constitution / James Madison -- The basis of political society: a spectrum of views ; Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious / David Daggett -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Basis of the Senate / Daniel Webster -- The office of the people in art, government, and religion / George Bancroft -- Religious liberalism vs. orthodoxy ; Unitarian Christianity / William Ellery Channing -- The faith once delivered to the saints / Lyman Beecher -- The essential nature of the Constitution ; The compact theory of the Constitution / John Caldwell Calhoun -- The Constitution not a compact between sovereign states / Daniel Webster -- A house divided ; Slavery in the United States: its consistency with republican institutions and its effect upon the slave and society / Robert Toombs -- No compromise with slavery / William Lloyd Garrison -- A house divided / Abraham Lincoln -- Popular sovereignty / Stephen A. Douglas -- Reconstruction of the federal union ; Radical republican theory / Thaddeus Stevens -- Administration theory / Henry Jarvis Raymond -- pt. 2. Ferment in an industrial age ; Rugged individualism and social protest ; The forgotten man / William Graham Sumner -- The crime of poverty / Henry George -- The gospel of wealth vs. the social gospel ; Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell -- The message of Jesus to men of wealth / George Davis Herron -- Revealed religion vs. the religion of humanity ; Victory for God / T. Dewitt Talmage -- Victory for man / Robert Green Ingersoll -- Crusade for the ballot ; For the woman suffrage amendment / Susan Brownell Anthony -- Against the woman suffrage amendment / Joseph Emerson Brown -- The mission of America ; The march of the flag / Albert J. Beveridge -- Imperialism / William Jennings Bryan.
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Includes bibliography.

WAR, NEWBERY,

pt. 1. To form a more perfect union ; Ratification of the federal Constitution ; Against the federal Constitution / Patrick Henry -- For the federal Constitution / James Madison -- The basis of political society: a spectrum of views ; Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious / David Daggett -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Basis of the Senate / Daniel Webster -- The office of the people in art, government, and religion / George Bancroft -- Religious liberalism vs. orthodoxy ; Unitarian Christianity / William Ellery Channing -- The faith once delivered to the saints / Lyman Beecher -- The essential nature of the Constitution ; The compact theory of the Constitution / John Caldwell Calhoun -- The Constitution not a compact between sovereign states / Daniel Webster -- A house divided ; Slavery in the United States: its consistency with republican institutions and its effect upon the slave and society / Robert Toombs -- No compromise with slavery / William Lloyd Garrison -- A house divided / Abraham Lincoln -- Popular sovereignty / Stephen A. Douglas -- Reconstruction of the federal union ; Radical republican theory / Thaddeus Stevens -- Administration theory / Henry Jarvis Raymond -- pt. 2. Ferment in an industrial age ; Rugged individualism and social protest ; The forgotten man / William Graham Sumner -- The crime of poverty / Henry George -- The gospel of wealth vs. the social gospel ; Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell -- The message of Jesus to men of wealth / George Davis Herron -- Revealed religion vs. the religion of humanity ; Victory for God / T. Dewitt Talmage -- Victory for man / Robert Green Ingersoll -- Crusade for the ballot ; For the woman suffrage amendment / Susan Brownell Anthony -- Against the woman suffrage amendment / Joseph Emerson Brown -- The mission of America ; The march of the flag / Albert J. Beveridge -- Imperialism / William Jennings Bryan.