The World's Best Orations
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ISBN13: 9780217898133
Paperback|9780217898133
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DAVID DAVIS (1815-1886), avid Davis, celebrated for his independent position during a period of strong partisanship, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, March 9th, 1815, but he removed to Illinois at an age so early that, historically, he is completely identified with that State. He was a Republican, strongly supporting all the measures of that party for the restoration of the Union and the suppression of resistance to Federal authority, but after the war ended, without leaving the party, he asserted his right to use his individual judgment regardless of caucuses or of what he considered merely partisan policies. This attitude, well represented in his speech of April 22d, 1879, had a great influence on the politics of his time. He is supposed to have been the original type of the Statesman on the Fence, but the jest of partisan paragraphers did not impair his usefulness or make him a less respectable figure, historically. He was Associate- Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1862 to 1877; United States Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883, and from 1881 to 1883 acting Vice-President of the United States. He died at Bloomington, Illinois, June 26th, 1886. ON APPEAL FROM THE CAUCUS (From the Speech on Freedom of Elections, Delivered in the United States Senate, April 22d, 1879) Mr, President: ? The caucus is an important factor in American politics, and both the great parties of the country employ its agency. This is done on the theory that party action is most easily perfected by this method. I do not complain of the mode adopted to reach results, but as I have been for many years viewing public affairs from an independent standpoint, it does not help me to decide any question that may come before the Senate. Although usually preferring to gi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217898133 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217898130 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $23.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 114 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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