World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Volume 6) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt: ... name is the United States of America. The States are an essential part of the name and of the thing. They are represented by the starry flag, which their children have borne on so many fields of glory, the ever-shining symbol of one nation and many States. They are not provinces or countries; they are not principalities or dukedoms; but they are free republican States, sovereign in their sphere, as the United States are sovereign in theirs; and all essential elements of that one, undivided, and indissoluble country, which is dearer than life, and for which so many have died. As the State of New York would not be to me what it is, if, instead of the free, active Commonwealth, it were to subside into a principality or a province, so neither would the United States be to me what they are, if, instead of a union of free States, they were to subside into a consolidated empire. For such an empire, we have not borne the defeats and won the victories of civil war. THE COST OF "BLOOD AND IRON" (Delivered at the banquet of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Held During the Summer of 1890. By permission from the Life of David Dudley Field, by Henry M. Field. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1898. Copyright, 1898, by H. M. Field) My Lords and Gentlemen: --Iam going to preach you a very short sermon upon the text proposed by Mr. Shaw-Lefevre--an International Parliamentary movement. Last week I had the honor of being present at an unofficial Congress, composed of private individuals of many nations, earnestly bent on doing what they might to further the cause of international arbitration. To-night I am proud to address a body of parliamentary representatives inspired by the same lofty ideal. I hear the people declare us enthusiasts, dreamers, unpractical folk chasing ...