Addresses and orations of Rufus Choate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

iv, 529 p. ; 20 cm.

Edition:

2d ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1878.

Contents:

The importance of illustrating New England history by a series of romances like the Waverley novels.

The colonial age of New England.

The age of the Pilgrims the heroic period of our history.

The power of a state developed by mental culture.

The position and functions of the American bar, as an element of conservatism in the state.

The eloquence of revolutionary periods.

Address delivered in South Danvers, at the dedication of the Peabody institute, September 29, 1854.

Remarks before the Circuit court on the death of Mr. Webster.

A discourse commemorative of Daniel Webster.

Speech before the Young men's Whig club of Boston, on the annexation of Texas.

Speech on the judicial tenure.

Speech delivered at the constitutional meeting in Faneuil hall, November 26, 1850.

Speech delivered in Faneuil hall, October 31, 1855.

Speech "on the political topics now prominent before the country" ... October 28, 1856.

American nationality.

Speech on the birthday of Daniel Webster, January 18, 1859.

OCLC:

4713644