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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)
r 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 pu If one would know America and its differences, how training and environment have affected oratory as well as views of public policy, one could get no better lesson than by comparing the full-blooded oratory of Benton with the acrid speech of Josiah Quincy or the polite eloquence of Everett. After Benton's retirement from Congress, he prepared and published his Thirty years view, a political history of the decades between 1820 and 1850 written from the viewpoint of an actor in the scenes descr
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)
historical Society, 77 n. Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The, 228, 234 Prometheus (Lowell), 250 Prometheus Vinctus, 2 Prophetic pictures, the, 24 Proud, Robert, 106 Providence Gazette, the, 178 Psalm of life, the, 35 Psalm of the West, the, 338 Puck, 386 Punch, 158 Putnam's monthly, 247, 371, 372, 373 Pyle, Howard, 408 Q. C. Philander Doesticks, P. B. See Thompson, Mortimer Quarles, 3 Queechy, 398 Queen's twin, the, 383 Quincy, Edmund, 192 Quincy, Josiah, 89, 90 Rabelais Club, 229 Raleigh, 124 Rambler, 367 Ramona, 383 Ramsay, Dr., David, 104, 105, 106 Randall, James Ryder, 291, 295-296, 298, 300, 30, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307, 311 Randolph, John 71, 85-86, 87 Ranke, Leopold, 130, 139 Rappaccini's daughter, 24 Raven, the, 59, 65, 66, 67 Raven and other poems, the, 59 Raymond, Henry J., 189, 192, 193-195 Raynal, Abbe, 201 n. Read, Thomas Buchanan, 279, 282, 285, 286 Read, W. H., 365 Reade, Charles, 371