The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together with Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceCaleb Bingham and Company and sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Cornhill, 1817 - 300 էջ The Columbian Orator, Caleb Bingham's classic work of 1797, contains both the oratory of the American Founding Fathers alongside imagined speeches from gifted orators of past epochs. Exceptional both for its contents and greater impact upon the fledgling society of the United States, this compendium of fine speech carries great historical and cultural value. As well as American speeches, this collection contains historic addresses from Europe, ranging back to ancient Rome. From about 1800 to 1820 it was recited and taught widely in schools across the US, instilling the importance of both patriotic pride in the new nation and the value of eloquent speaking. Bingham hoped to create a new generation of passionate American speakers, that leadership in the future would carry a wellspring of honed rhetorical talent from which to draw. Notably, several entries in this collection articulate opposition to slavery, which at the time was legal and widely practiced in the USA. It discusses the lack of ethics enslavement entails, thereby capturing the hearts and inspiring the-then fledgling abolitionist movement of America. Bingham's work was paid tribute in later decades by talented speakers such as Frederick Douglass, who read this book many times as an enslaved child, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who authored the famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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... ORAN with a cane . Oran . Moping fugitive ! quick to your task . [ Beat ing him . ] I have not placed you here to mutter to the herbs and flowers : they need the labour of your hands . Let them have it ; or heavier blows shall pun- ish ...
... Oran . Hah ! Ozro . A slave enlarged is no grate- ful sight to his old master . [ Aside . Ozro . I come , my brother , to end your sufferings . Aman . Welcome ! You know them to be more than man can bear . Oran . Vile intruder ! are you ...
... Oran . When foreign ruffians , who ought to wear the chains of bondage , are armed with swords , all right is lost our property is given to the winds . Were it not for what weak heads , and sickly hearts call justice , I'd feast my dogs ...
... Oran . I think I have heard the Bashaw noted for his humanity . Ozro . That ruler has but an ill title to humanity , who suffers his subjects to traffic in the dearest rights of man , and shares himself the execrated commerce . Aman ...
... Oran's hands again , If you choose to be obstinate , we could easily slice you in pieces , and carry you on the points of our swords . But we don't wish to spoil you in such a manner . Besides , our master keeps no cut- throats . Our ...
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