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88. Who is Independent?...

89. Condition of Insolvent Debtors..

90. Remembrance of Wrongs..

91. Military Character of General Taylor.

92. Eulogium on South Carolina....

93. South Carolina and Massachusetts.

94. Reply to Mr. Webster.

95. Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne..

96. Final Triumph of Democracy.

97. Amendment to the Constitution..

98. Mission to Panama...

99. Our Duty to Revolutionary Soldiers..

100. The Zero Line of Valor..

101. Effect of Steadiness of Pursuit.

102. The Territories...

103. Triumph of Poetry over Arms.

104. Danger of Faction..

105. Evil of Duelling.

.DEM. REVIEW, 133

106. Puritan and Spartan Heroism..

109. Duty of Literary Men to America..

110. Death of Hamilton.

111. Invective of Hungary.

112. The Admission of California.

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135. Injustice the Cause of National Ruin..

136. Supposed Speech against the Declaration..

137. Supposed Speech of Adams in Reply..

138. Society without Morality....

139. Embassy to Rome..

140. Cessation of Hostilities..

141. The Puritans.....

142. The Demagogue.

143. Eulogium on John Q. Adams..

144. The Levelling System...

145. Spirit of Liberty in 1772..

146. On the Boston Massacre.

147. Men who never Die....

148. Literary Position of America..

149. When War shall be no more

150. A Picture of Terror.....

151. Stopping the March of Freedom.

152. Invective in the "Wilkinson Trial"..

153. The World of Beauty around us..

154. Danger of Vast Fortune...

155. Influence of Republican Geneva on the

156. The same-continued

157. Secret of the Murderer..

158. Bunker Hill Monument..

.ANONYMOUS. 199

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Puritans....CHOATE. 205

....WEBSTER. 209

159. Moral Power of Public Opinion.

160. Sacred from War.....

161. Plea in the Michigan Railroad Conspiracy Trial.

162. Danger of Military Supremacy.

163. Executive Clemency...

164. Death of Jefferson and Adams...

165. Executive Power....

166. Greatness of Napoleon..

....SEWARD. 212

EUROPEAN ELOQUENCE, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

1. The Perfect Orator..

2. Appeal for Queen Caroline..

3. Demand for Justice to Ireland..

4. Defence from the Charge of Tyranny.

...O'CONNELL. 223 Y

.ROBESPIERRE. 223

5. Peroration in the Oration against Warren Hastings.... BURKE. 225

6. Catiline's Address to the Conspirators...

7. Conciliation of Ireland...

8. A Free Constitution..

9. Immortal Influence of Athens

10. Trial of Warren Hastings..

12. Personal Vindication

13. The Duke of Wellington..

14. France and the Republic.

15. On the Presidential Election.

....ERSKINE. 227

.BOLINGBROKE. 229

..MIRABEAU. 233

.LAMARTINE. 237

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43. Securities from Catholic Ireland.

4. Blessings of Education..

45. Wrongs of Ireland...

46. On the Funeral of Henrietta..

47. Trial of the Church.

48. Duty in Time of War.

49. On the Conspiracy of Catiline

50. A Defence from Impeachment.

51. Liberty in the Revolution of 1830..

52. The True Conquerors..

53. Abolition of the Slave Trade...

54. Futility of Efforts to stay Reform..

.CHATEAUBRIAND, 238

..MARIOTTI. 241 V

.SYDNEY SMITH. 246`

..PHILLIPS. 247

.CULPEPPER. 252

55. Plea of Sergeant Buzfuz in Bardell v. Pickwick......

56. The same-continued....

57. Death of Fox..

58. On the Reformation in England..

59. Attack of Antwerp..

60. What is the French Revolution?..

61. True Use of Wealth.

62. Yielding to Public Opinion..

63. Decline of the Celtic Race.

64. Disregard of the Past..

65. On the Law of Copyright.

66. Hamlet's Address to the Players.

67. True Position of Napoleon.....

.LAMARTINE. 292

.SHAKSPEARE. 299

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68. Qualifications for Soldiers....

69. Grievances of the English Government..

70. Duty of England to Italy..

71. Defence of the Poet Archias

..SYDNEY SMITH. 301

.MACKINTOSH. 302

.MACKINTOSH. 303

72. Speech of Shrewsbury before Queen Elizabeth..

73. Mr. Fox and the East India Bill..

74. Detached Empire...

75. Taxation of America..

76. The Return of Peace..

77. Glory of Holland and Ireland.

78. Apparitions..

79. The Landed Interest..

80. Vindication from Dishonor.

81. Removal of the Troops from Boston.

82. "You cannot Conquer America”.

83. Days of Desolation..

84. Indulgencies to the Catholics.

85. Safety only in the Republic..

86. Attachment of a People to their Religion.

87. Speech of Icilius to the Romans.

88. Visions of Joan of Arc and Bishop Beauvais.

89. The same-continued..

....BOYTON. 310

.D'ISRAELI. 313

.SYDNEY SMITH. 319

.LAMARTINE. 320

.SYDNEY SMITH, 321

.DE QUINCEY. 323

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43. Funeral of Charles I..

44. The Four Eras...

45. Seminole's Reply....

46. The Rising of the North.

47. The Soldier's Tear...

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