American Rhetorical Discourse,9781577663676

American Rhetorical Discourse

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ISBN13: 9781577663676
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Pub. Date: 2004-09-30
Publisher(s): Waveland Pr Inc
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Table of Contents

Rhetorical Genre Contents xi
Chronological Contents xvii
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition xxi
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition xxv
INTRODUCTION 1(22)
SECTION I PURITAN PREACHING AND THE AMERICAN MISSION 23(62)
A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY
24(13)
John Winthrop (1630)
A BRIEF RECOGNITION OF NEW-ENGLAND[']S ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS
37(17)
Samuel Danforth (1670)
ABRAHAM'S OFFERING UP HIS SON ISAAC
54(11)
George White field (1734-1741)
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
65(14)
Jonathan Edwards (1741)
EXCERPT FROM JOY AND SALVATION BY CHRIST; HIS ARM DISPLAYED IN THE PROTESTANT CAUSE (PEACE OF 1763)
79(6)
Samuel Haven (1763)
SECTION II FOUNDING A NATION: RHETORIC OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 85(52)
DECLARATIONS
86(6)
Stamp Act Congress (1765)
LETTER II IN LETTERS FROM A FARMER IN PENNSYLVANIA TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES
92(6)
John Dickinson (1767)
BOSTON MASSACRE ORATION-MARCH 5, 1774
98(10)
John Hancock (1774)
LIBERTY OR DEATH
108(4)
Patrick Henry (1775)
EXCERPT FROM COMMON SENSE
112(16)
Thomas Paine (1776)
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, EXCERPT FROM LETTER III
128(5)
William Smith (1776)
CENSURE OF JOHN PIGG
133(4)
Pittsylvania County Committee of Safety (1775)
SECTION III FOUNDING A NATION: ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 137(48)
OPENING SPEECH AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
138(4)
Edmund Randolph (1787)
EXCHANGE AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION REGARDING A PROPOSED SECOND CONVENTION
142(3)
Edmund Randolph, George Mason, Charles Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry (1787)
CLOSING SPEECH AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
145(3)
Benjamin Franklin (1787)
EXCHANGE AT THE VIRGINIA RATIFYING CONVENTION
148(26)
Patrick Henry and James Madison (1788)
FIRST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
174(5)
George Washington (1790)
EXCERPTS FROM MEMORANDA ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE NATIONAL BANK
179(6)
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton (1791)
SECTION IV PUBLIC LIFE, 1796-1850: THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT 185(70)
FAREWELL ADDRESS
186(17)
George Washington (1796)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
203(5)
Thomas Jefferson (1801)
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
208(5)
Henry Clay and James Madison (1817)
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF: EXCERPT FROM THE AMERICAN SYSTEM AND EXCERPTS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION AND PROTEST (ORIGINAL DRAFT)
213(14)
Henry Clay (1824) and John C. Calhoun (1828)
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT ADDRESS
227(19)
Daniel Webster (1825)
SPEECH AT FORT MEIGS
246(9)
William Henry Harrison (1840)
SECTION V PUBLIC LIFE, 1800-1850: THE FRONTIER 255(22)
CAMPAIGNING IN MADISON COUNTY (1823) AND COMMENTS ON KING ANDREW (1834)
256(5)
David Crockett
TORMENTED BY MOCKERS
261(5)
Peter Cartwright (1856)
DEBATE BEFORE THE CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW COUNCIL
266(8)
Tecumseh (Shawnee) and Apushamathaubih or Pushmataha (Choctaw) (1811)
FAREWELL TO BLACK HAWK
274(3)
Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kaih, or Black Hawk (Sauk) (1832)
SECTION VI PUBLIC LIFE, 1800-1860: THE RHETORIC OF REFORM AND COUNTERREFORM 277(68)
THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE
278(8)
Lyman Beecher (1826)
To THE PUBLIC
286(5)
William Lloyd Garrison (1831)
EXCERPT FROM ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY
291(18)
Thomas R. Dew (1832)
DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS
309(6)
American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
PASTORAL LETTER AND RESPONSE TO THE PASTORAL LETTER
315(9)
General Association of [Congregational Ministers of] Massachusetts and Sarah M. Grimke (1837)
THE MURDER OF LOVEJOY
324(7)
Wendell Phillips (1837)
DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS
331(4)
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
PROTEST
335(3)
Harry Blackwell and Lucy Stone (1855)
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? EXCERPT FROM AN ORATION, AT ROCHESTER, JULY 5, 1852
338(7)
Frederick Douglass (1852)
SECTION VII THE RHETORIC OF SECTIONALISM AND CIVIL WAR 345(114)
WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE ON FOOT'S RESOLUTION
346(25)
Robert Y. Hayne and Daniel Webster (1830)
EXCERPTS FROM SENATE SPEECHES ON THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
371(25)
The "Great Triumvirate": Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster (1850)
HOUSE DIVIDED
396(11)
Abraham Lincoln (1858)
EXCERPTS FROM THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE AT FREEPORT
407(15)
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (1858)
EXCERPT FROM THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON
422(4)
Edward Everett (1856-1859)
COOPER UNION ADDRESS
426(16)
Abraham Lincoln (1860)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
442(6)
Jefferson Davis (1861)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
448(8)
Abraham Lincoln (1861)
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
456(3)
Abraham Lincoln (1863)
SECTION VIII POST CIVIL WAR AMERICA: RECONSTRUCTION, RACIAL CONFLICT AND THE NEW SOUTH 459(60)
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS
460(3)
Abraham Lincoln (1865)
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE OVER RECONSTRUCTION POLICY
463(16)
Thaddeus Stevens and Henry Jarvis Raymond (1865)
SENATE SPEECH INTRODUCING AND EXCERPTS FROM THE SENATE DEBATE ON THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
479(13)
William M. Stewart and Adonijah S. Welch, Thomas A. Hendricks, Henry W. Corbett, Simon Cameron, Samuel Pomeroy, Garrett Davis, Joseph S. Fowler, Oliver Morton, James R. Doolittle and Charles Drake (1869)
THE NEW SOUTH
492(9)
Henry W. Grady (1886)
EXCERPT FROM ORATION ON THE LIFE, CHARACTER AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN
501(3)
L.Q.C. Lamar (1887)
COTTON STATES EXPOSITION ADDRESS
504(5)
Booker T. Washington (1895)
OF MR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND OTHERS
509(10)
W.E.B. DuBois (1903)
SECTION IX CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR I: INDUSTRIALIZATION, ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND PROGRESSIVE CHANGE 519(82)
ACRES OF DIAMONDS
520(14)
Russell Conwell (1870's-1924)
STANDARD OIL AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
534(10)
Washington Gladden (1905)
THE FORGOTTEN MAN (ABRIDGED)
544(15)
William Graham Sumner (1883)
WEALTH
559(9)
Andrew Carnegie (1889)
OLD-TIME POLITICAL SPEECHES
568(4)
Albert Beveridge
POPULIST SONGS: "THE INDEPENDENT MAN" AND "GOOD-BYE, MY PARTY, GOOD-BYE"
572(5)
Mrs. J.T. Kellie and Anonymous (1890's)
CROSS OF GOLD
577(9)
William Jennings Bryan (1896)
THE MAN WITH THE MUCK RAKE
586(10)
Theodore Roosevelt (1906)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
596(5)
Woodrow Wilson (1913)
SECTION X CIVIL WAR TO THE NEW DEAL: THE STRUGGLE OF AMERICAN LABOR 601(26)
SPEECH TO THE ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
602(5)
Terence Powderly (1880)
THE LABOR QUESTION
607(7)
Samuel Gompers (1888)
WORKING CLASS POLITICS
614(5)
Eugene V. Debs (1910)
AT A PUBLIC MEETING IN CHARLESTON
619(8)
Mary Harris (Mother) Jones (1912)
SECTION XI CIVIL WAR TO 1920: WOMEN ACHIEVE SUFFRAGE 627(44)
PETITION TO CONGRESS FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
628(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1865)
CALL FOR THE ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
630(3)
Lucretia Mott (1867)
SPEECH TO THE ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
633(4)
Sojourner Truth (1867)
EXCERPTS FROM IS IT A CRIME FOR A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE?
637(5)
Susan B. Anthony (1872)
TESTIMONY TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE: UNITED STATES SENATE, MARCH 7, 1884
642(5)
Susan B. Anthony (1884)
THE SOLITUDE OF SELF
647(9)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1892)
THE CRISIS (ABRIDGED)
656(15)
Carrie Chapman Catt (1916)
SECTION XII TURN OF THE CENTURY TO WORLD WAR II: EMPIRE, ISOLATIONISM AND WORLD POWER 671(62)
AMERICAN EMPIRE: THE MARCH OF THE FLAG (ABRIDGED)
672(7)
Albert Beveridge (1898)
AMERICAN EMPIRE: ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, 1900 (ABRIDGED)
679(11)
William Jennings Bryan (1900)
WAR MESSAGE
690(10)
Woodrow Wilson (1917)
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE
700(13)
Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson (1919)
THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
713(11)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940)
AMERICA'S PRESENT EMERGENCY
724(6)
Burton K. Wheeler (1940)
WAR MESSAGE
730(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
SECTION XIII NEW DEAL TO NEO-CONSERVATISM: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE ECONOMY 733(40)
PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT
734(13)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
747(5)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
FIRESIDE CHAT ON BANKING
752(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
A TIME FOR CHOOSING
756(11)
Ronald Reagan (1964)
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
767(6)
Ronald Reagan (1981)
SECTION XIV WORLD WAR II TO PRESENT: COLD WAR AND AMERICAN POWER 773(38)
AN IRON CURTAIN HAS DESCENDED (ABRIDGED)
774(5)
Winston Churchill (1946)
THE THREAT OF A RED ASIA
779(8)
John Foster Dulles (1954)
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
787(4)
John F. Kennedy (1961)
How TO SAVE LIVES AND POLITICAL FACE IN VIETNAM
791(5)
George McGovern (1965)
SPEECH TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS (THE "EVIL EMPIRE" SPEECH)
796(8)
Ronald Reagan (1983)
ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
804(7)
George W. Bush (2001)
SECTION XV EXPANDING CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 811
SENATE SPEECH ON FREE SPEECH IN WARTIME (ABRIDGED)
812(7)
Robert LaFollette (1917)
A MORAL NECESSITY FOR BIRTH CONTROL
819(12)
Margaret Sanger (1921)
SPEECH TO THE GREATER HOUSTON MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
831(6)
John F. Kennedy (1960)
I HAVE A DREAM
837(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
SEPARATION VS. INTEGRATION: A DEBATE
844(20)
James Farmer and Malcolm X (1962)
TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE HEARINGS ON THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, MAY 6, 1970
864(6)
Gloria Steinem (1970)
EXCERPTS FROM TESTIMONY BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, OCTOBER 20, 1983
870
Phyllis Schlafly (1983)

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