AMERICAN ELOQUENCE
STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston
Reedited by James Albert Woodburn
Volume II. (of 4)
Portrait Artists
RUFUS KING — From a steel engraving.
JOHN Q. ADAMS — From a painting by MARCHANT.
JOHN C. CALHOUN — From a daguerreotype by BRADY.
DANIEL WEBSTER — From a painting by R. M. STAIGG.
HENRY CLAY — From a crayon portrait.
INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME II.
The second volume of the American Eloquence is devoted exclusively to the Slavery controversy. The new material of the revised edition includes Rufus King and William Pinkney on the Missouri Question; John Quincy Adams on the War Power of the Constitution over Slavery; Sumner on the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. The addition of the new material makes necessary the reservation of the orations on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and on the