The cause will raise up | armies; the cause will create |

The people, the people, | if we are trúe to them,|

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and bloody wár | for restoration | of privileges, | for re

dress of grievances, | for chartered | immúnities, | held |

under a British | king, set before them the glorious

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object of entire independence, and it will breathe into them

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slowly lift Ꭱ Ꮯ to shoulder level Through the thick | gloom | of the présent I see the

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brightness of the future, as the sun | in heaven. We

shall make this a glòrious, | an immòrtal | day.

are in our graves | our children | will honor it.

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celebrate it | with thanksgiving, | with festivity, | with bonfires and illuminations. On its annual | retúrn | they will

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and slavery, not of agony | and distress, but of

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months | were the Pilgrims | all | swept off by the thirty|

savage tribes enumerated | within the early | limits |

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of New England? Tell me, | politician, | how long I did this | shadow of a cólony, | on which your convéntions |

and treaties | had not smiled, | lànguish | on the distant |

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coast? Student | of history, | compare for me | the baffled |

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projects, the abandoned | adventures of other times, |

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and find a parallel || of this.

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allies to Poland? | Is there a single | atròcity of the

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French in Italy, | in Switzerland,- | in Egypt, | if you

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pléase, more | unpríncipled | and inhuman | than that of front R C F down repeat F repeat F

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Rússia, | Aústria | and Prússia | in Pòland?

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Tell your invaders | we seek | nô | change,- | and |

least of all, | sûch | change | as they | would bring us.

Students who cannot give the downward inflection may, at first, attempt to accent each word necessitating a downward inflection as if the sentence ended on it. After they have acquired facility in doing this they can learn to start the downward inflection, if necessary, on a higher key (§§ 75-77.) Beginners should use only the closing part of the circumflex, which, unless very emphatic, is not well given except when it is slightly given, and usually requires some cultivation of the voice,

VEHEMENT, VIGOROUS AND APPELLATORY

SELECTIONS

For obvious reasons, the extracts published in this work are none of them of a partisan, sectional or sectarian character; and have all been selected, on the principle of the survival of the fittest, from those that, in the author's own experience, have been found to be best adapted for the purposes for which they are used.

210. In all these the predominating

Time is slower, Pitch slightly higher, and Tone much louder than in ordinary conversation.

Force is natural, tending toward sustained (§§ 113, 114); explosive on very vehement passages, otherwise expulsive; and

Quality, orotund, often made aspirate to express intensity, and guttural to express hostility (§§ 135-137).

211. Assertive, Positive Style; mainly Downward Inflections. Predominating Terminal stress (§ 101); but on vehement passages, Initial (§ 100), and sometimes, on very emphatic syllables, not followed by others in the same word, Compound (see § 45: b, c; § 103: a).

1. REPLY TO MR. FLOOD, 1783.- Henry Grattan.

No

It is not the slander of an evil tòngue that can defàme me. man, who has not a bad | character, | can ever say that I deceived. No country can call me a cheat. But I will suppose such a public character. I will suppose such a man | to have | exìstence. I will begin with his character in his political | crádle, and I will follow him to the last stage of political | dissolution. I will suppóse him,

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in the first stage of his life, to have been intemperate; in the second,

to have been corrupt; and in the last, seditious;·

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envenomed attack on the persons and measures of a succession of

víceroys, and after much | declamation against their illegalities and w tr R C to waist and w to 1fRO

their profúsion, hè | took office, and became a supporter | of Gov

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ernment, when the profusion of ministers had greatly increased, and 1 SRO

their crimes multiplied beyond example.

With regard to the liberties | of América, which were insépar

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able | from óurs, I will suppose this gentleman to have been an

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ênemy decided and unreserved; that he voted agamst | her liberty, W m tr LCF

and voted, moreover, for an address to send four | thousand | Irish | troops to cut the throats | of the Americans; that he called these

butchers “armed negotiators," and stood with a metaphor in his

móuth and a bribe in his pocket, a châmpion against the rights of

America,—of Amèrica, the only hope of Ireland, and the only |

refuge of the liberties | of mankind. Thus defective in every | relationship, whether to constitútion, cómmerce, or tolerátion, I will 1 fROF

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lic | crimes; that his probity was like his patriotism, and his honor

on a level with his oath. He loves to deliver panégyrics on himself. I will interrupt him, and say:

Sir, you are much mistaken if you think that your talents have been as great as your life has been reprehensible. You began your parliamentary career with an àcrimony and personality which could

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have been justified only by a supposition of virtue; after a rank and

clamorous opposition, you became, on a sudden, | silent; you were

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silent for seven | years; yon were silent on the greatest questions,

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and you were silent | for | money! You supported the unparalleled

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profusion and jobbing of Lord Harcourt's | scandalous | mìnistry.

Yóu, sír, who manufacture stage | thunder against Mr. Eden for

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his anti-American prínciples,-yóu, sír, whom it pleases to chant

a hymn to the immortal Hampden; —you, sir, approved of the tyranny exercised against Amèrica,- and you, sir, voted four |

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thousand | Irish troops to cut the throats of the Americans fighting

for their freedom, fighting for your freedom, fighting for the great |

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principle, || liberty! But you found, at last, that the Court had

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your Sovereign by betraying the Government, as you had sold the People. Such has been your conduct, and at such conduct every

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order of your fellow-subjects have a right to exclaim! The mér

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Américan may say to you,- and Î, I now say, and say to your beard,

2. REPLY TO THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.- Lord Thurlow.

I am amazed at the attack which the noble Duke has made on me. Yes, my Lords, I am amazed at his Grace's speech. The noble Duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble Peer who owes his seat in this House to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident? To all these noble Lords the language of the noble Duke is as applicable, and as insulting, as it is to myself. But I do not fear to meet it single and alone.

No one venerates the Peerage more than I do; but, my Lords, I must say that the Peerage solicited me,— not I the Peerage. Nay, more, I can say, and will say, that, as a Peer of Parliament, as Speaker of this right honorable House, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his Majesty's conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England,nay, even in that character alone in which the noble Duke would think it an affront to be considered, but which character none can deny me, as a MAN,—I am at this moment as respectable,-I beg leave to add, I am as much respected, -as the proudest Peer I now look down upon!