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Our country is full of the achievements of northern laborers! Where are Concord, and Lexington, and Princeton, and Trenton,

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13. THE AMERICAN SAILOR.

R. F. Stockton.

(Page 176, Orator's Manual.)

14. AMBITION OF A STATESMAN.- Henry Clay.

(Page 178, Orator's Manual.)

15. RIENZI'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS.- Mary R. Mitford.

(Page 179, Orator's Manual.)

16. THE SEMINOLE'S DEFIANCE.

(Page 181, Orator's Manual.)

G. W. Patten.

17. CIVIL WAR THE GREATEST NATIONAL EVIL, 1829.

Palmerston.

(Page 181, Orator's Manual.)

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18. UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN, 1800.- Henry Grattan.
(Page 183, Orator's Manual.)

19. REPLY TO LORD NORTH, 1774. — - Col. Barré.

(Page 184, Orator's Manual.)

20. ENMITY TOWARD GREAT BRITAIN.

(Page 186, Orator's Manual.)

Rufus Choate.

21. THE SOUTH DURING THE REVOLUTION, 1830. Robert Y. Hayne. (Page 188, Orator's Manual.)

22. SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHUSETTS, 1830.. Daniel Webster. (Page 189, Orator's Manual.)

23. MILITARY SUPREMACY DANGEROUS TO LIBERTY.-Henry Clay. (Page 191, Orator's Manual.)

212. Controversial, Interrogative Style: Frequent Upward Inflections (Prodominating Terminal Stress (§ 101), becoming, on very emphatic words of one syllable, Compound (§ 103: a; § 45: b, c).

24. THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION, 1837.-Henry Clay.

What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this expunging resolution? Can you make that not to be which has been? Can you eradicate from mémory and from history the fact that, in March, 1834, a majority of the Senate of the United States pássed the resolution which excites your énmity? Is it your váin and wicked object to arrogate to yourselves that power of anníhilating the past which has

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26. AGAINST THE EMBARGO, 1808.-Josiah Quincy.
(Page 195, Orator's Manual.)

27. CICERO AGAINST VERRES.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero.

(Page 196, Orator's Manual.)

28. BRITISH INFLUENCE, 1811.-John Randolph.

Imputations of Brìtish | ìnfluence have been uttered against the opponents of this war. Against whom are these charges brought? Against men whó, in the war of the Revolution, were in the Còun

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cils of the nation, or fighting the battles of your country! And by

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British dominions, since the breaking out of the French troubles.

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