| Description |
377 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| 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 i 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 divides / 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. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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United States -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Baskerville, Barnet, editor.
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