Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Modern Eloquence, Vol. 11: Political Oratory; A-Bur
The compilation of the present five volumes of Political Oratory has a somewhat different object. The orations herein contained are practical and deal with actualities.
Here we see exhibited in the oration the Springs and motives of the most stirring incidents in history.
We see to the heart of great events, because we see laid bare in eloquent utterances the hearts of those men who were the chief instigators and actors in the transaction of those events.
History is thus turned into a vivid drama of struggle and progress, alive with heroic figures, who speak the clear and deliberate logic of conviction, with the forecast of the statesman and the prescience of the seer, or Shake the world like a storm or an earthquake, by their passionate expression of patriotism, love of liberty, or disinterested zeal for the emancipation of the downtrodden, for the dif fusion of political privilege among the depressed and the degraded. In this survey we plainly discern the progress of historic evolution. We see upon what principles new nations may be built up and old nations renovated and restored. Not only is the power of speech, the application of language to its highest and widest purpose, exemplified in political orations, by which senates have been swayed, legislative assemblies directed, whole nations roused to enthusiasm for right and justice, or to fury against Oppres sion, but we see how the general course of historic events is guided in ever-widening paths of liberty and enlighten ment.
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