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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 15: publicists and orators, 1800-1850 (search)
ge over most of his adversaries. From even a hurried sketch of this period we cannot omit to mention the names of a few other men who were well known in this time and deserve to be known now. Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), one of the ablest and most learned of American statesmen, served his country in Congress, as foreign minister, and as secretary of the treasury; he was an administrator rather than a publicist or orator, but some of his pamphlets and reports were of marked ability. Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864), secretary of the treasury under Jackson, and chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, was a learned jurist, whose fame was clouded for the later part of his life by his opinion in the Dred Scott case. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), an orator of no mean power, represented during the earlier part of his life the narrow New England Federalism which was so bitterly opposed to the politics of Jefferson and Madison. Edward Everett (1794-1865) occupied various public p
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, 102, 203 Swinburne, 51, 245, 271, 271 n. Sword of Robert Lee, the, 291, 309 Symonds, J. A., 27, 263 n. Symphony, the, 337, 343, 345 System of doctrines contained in divine revelation explained and defended, 199 Tabb, John B., 291, 326-329, 330, 342, 343, 345 Tales for the Marines, 154 Tales of a Wayside inn, 39, 49 Tales of soldiers and Civilians, 387 Talisman, the, 174, 369 Talvi (Mrs. Robinson), 136 Tamerlane and other poems, 57 Tamerlane, 66, 68 Taney, Roger Brooke, 89 Tanglewood tales, 401 Tannenbaum, 0 Tannenbaum, 295 Tar-Baby Story and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, The, 350 Tardy George, 280 Taylor, Bayard, 49, 167, 190, 192, 276, 278, 280, 311, 337, 338, 344, 402 Taylor, John, 84-85 Temperance, 45 Tennent, Gilbert, 198 Tennessee's partner, 380, 385 Tennyson, 3, 5, 39, 52, 224, 248, 254, 271 Tenting on the old camp ground, 285 Tent on the Beach, the, 46, 49 Ten years on a Georgia plantation, 3, 4 Term of s