Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis (Volume 1) (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. 1894. Excerpt: ... INDEX Abolition agitation, the vindication of free speech, 129. Abolition societies, existence of, in slave States, 68. Abolitionists, reviled, 28; defenders of free speech, 146. Absolutism, universal before the fif-teenth century, 48. Adams, John, on human nature as an advocate for liberty, 104; promotes independence of American colo-nies, 257. Adams, J. Q., on triumph of slave-power, 25; heads minority in Con-gress against slavery, 26, 73; in Congress, on freedom, 329. Adams, Samuel, 30; showed the ad-vantage of college education, 270; on resistance to magistrates, 323. Addison, Joseph, II. /Eschylus, 7. Agitation of slavery question, the purpose of the abolitionists, 90. Alabama, decline of, 19. Albany, N. Y., address on the Uni-versity of the State of New York at, July 9, 1890, 429. Alston, Washington, and Coleridge, 319. America, discovered at a most fitting time for civilization, 48, 49: pre-pared for the religious movement in Europe, 50; reserved for de-velopment of liberty, 48. America (United States), sprang from ability to organize liberty in in-stitutions; a permanent protest against absolutism; opposes free-dom to feudalism, 51; consecrated to freedom; freedom its political foundation, 52; its greatness not in achievement, but promise, 57; needs only enlightened patriotism to fulfil its youthful dreams, 59. American doctrine of liberty, prom-ises endless progress, 107; founds equal political knowledge upon human equality; repudiates arbi-trary exclusion, 113; would give equal political privileges to all men, 114; denial of, in case of colored men, 115; denial of, by Senator Douglas's doctrine of the rule of the majority, 116; asserts that worth makes the man, 155. American Doctrine Ok Liberty, The (Address IV.), 97-125. American foreign minist...