Southern Students Hand Book Of Selections For Reading And Oratory Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from History of Southern Oratory In this volume it has been our purpose to recognize and commemorate the work done by public speakers of the South, in the creation of popular opinion and the direction of nationally important events. There are those who claim that the ideals of the statesmen, lawyers, writers and preachers of the Old South were peculiarly elevated, conducive to strictly legitimate methods in the Court House, the highest standards in literature, and the spirit of consecration in the Church, and the loftiest patriotism and integrity in affairs of the state. It is universally known and lamented that these noble ideals suffered terribly by the War of Secession, the Reconstruction era, and the one-party politics which the position of the North, on the negro question, forced upon the Solid South. Nevertheless, in the main, Southern ideals and Southern standards persists. It is true that in such publications as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where a complacent Northern people discuss the Southern situation, we find the statements like this - "In the world of letters, at least, the Southern states have shown by reflected light, nor is it too much to say that mainly by their connection with the North, the Carolinas have been saved from sinking to the level of Mexico and the Antilles." I suppose this view prevails to a greater extent than we Southern people imagine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."