No television, no internet, no twitter. 150 years ago public
opinion was shaped, not by 30-second sound bytes, banner ads, or
140-character messages. It was shaped by people climbing upon the
stage and speaking persuasively to audiences large and small. One
speech, carefully constructed, passionately given, and widely
circulated, could and did turn obscure politicians into national
figures. Civil War Speeches is a collection of passionate words
spoken by the people most intimately involved in the great debates
of their time. There is an unmistakable truth that one man's
traitorous zealot is another man's passionate patriot. The
difference is geography. To Southerners, Frederick Douglass and
William Garrison, proponents of the abolition of slavery, were
extremists threatening a cherished way of life. To Northerners,
firebrands like William Loundes Yancy and Robert Barnwell Rhett
were fanatics seeking to destroy the union of the states. Their war
of words soon devolved into the bloodiest war in American history.
These volumes chronicle the drama that was played out over the
15-year period (1850-1865) leading up to and comprising the Civil
War. Read chronologically, these speeches show the evolution of
public sentiment, molded by the speakers that placed great masses
on a collision course. There are no glorious, death-defying bayonet
charges to be found in these volumes. The weapons used by the
speakers were simple appeals to patriotism and the defense of home
and hearth; it was a question of whose flag was to fly over whose
country. Civil War Speeches is designed to be every reader's speech
reference and every librarian's resource. The editors have made
every effort to either obtain the original text, or to reconcile
differing texts, to provide the reader the authentic words of the
speakers. The only change we have made to the text is to carefully
edit the essential sections presented into modern spelling and
grammar. Civil War Speeches presents 37 important speeches (20 in
the North's volume, 17 in the South's volume) each placed in its
correct historic context by a biographical sketch of the speaker, a
history of the speech, and a thorough bibliography. Edited for
readers, writers, and researchers at all levels, Civil War Speeches
provides the user with a right-at-the fingertips, easy-to-access
speech reference. A century and a half after the guns have fallen
silent, and long after the speakers have gone to their graves,
their words still have power to stir the American soul, North and
South.
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