Best American Orations (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Best American Orations What days? Whenever giants were needed. In the time of personal physical force, as in the ancient Hebrew tradition quoted, the mighty men of old were heroes of battle. In succeeding ages, every great national crisis seems to have developed the strong men for its needs. So has it been in Amer ica. The Colonial, Revolutionary, and Constructive periods had their giants, the day of expanding terri tory, commerce, and manufactures, with con¿icting sectional interests and discussion of the mutual relations of the States and the Union, had its cham pions, and the culminating struggle over slavery, involving the very existence of the Union and the Constitution, bred its men of might, both civil and military, on both sides of the vast con¿ict. America has always been prolific of orators, as is natural in a land of popular government, where frequent appeal to the people is requisite. Aside from the pulpit invocations to higher personal life, nothing is SO important or so universally interesting as the public discussion of public policies. Thus it is that politics, in the larger sense the ethical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.