ELOQUENT SONS

of the South

A Handbook of Southern Oratory

Edited by

JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

CLARK HOWELL

WALTER WILLIAMS

VOL. I

The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd.

Boston

AUGUST, MCMIX

CONTENTS

PATRICK HENRY (Portrait)

SPEECH DELIVERED MARCH 23, 1775, IN

THE CONVENTION OF DELEGATES OF

VIRGINIA

SPEECH ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF ADOPTING

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

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