Produced by David Widger AMERICAN ELOQUENCE STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY Edited with Introduction by Alexander Johnston Reedited by James Albert Woodburn Volume II. (of 4) CONTENTS: V.-THE ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE. RUFUS KING On The Missouri Struggle--United States Senate, February 11 And 14, 1820. WILLIAM PINKNEY On The Missouri Struggle--United States Senate, February 15, 1820. WENDELL PHILLIPS On The Murder Of Lovejoy--Faneuil Hall, Boston, December 8, 1837. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS On The Constitutional War Power Over Slavery --House Of Representatives, May 25, 1836. JOHN C. CALHOUN On The Slavery Question--United States Senate, March 4, 1850. DANIEL WEBSTER On The Constitution And The Union--United States Senate, March 7, 1850. HENRY CLAY On The Compromise Of 1850--United States Senate, July 22, 1850. WENDELL PHILLIPS On The Philosophy Of The Abolition Movement--Before The Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, January 27, 1853. CHARLES SUMNER On The Repeal Of The Fugitive Slave Law--United States Senate, August 26, 1852. LIST OF PORTRAITS--VOLUME II. RUFUS KING -- From a steel engraving. JOHN Q. ADAMS -- From a painting by MARCHANT. JOHN C. CALHOUN -- From a daguerreotype by BRADY. DANIEL WEBSTER -- From a painting by R. M. STAIGG. HENRY CLAY -- From a crayon portrait. INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED VOLUME II. The second volume of the American Eloquence is devoted exclusively to the Slavery controversy. The new material of the revised edition includes Rufus King and William Pinkney on the Missouri Question; John Quincy Adams on the War Power of the Constitution over Slavery; Sumner on the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. The addition of the new material makes necessary the reservation of the orations on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and on the related subjects, for the third volume. In the anti-slavery struggle the Missouri question occupied a prominent place. In the voluminous Congressional material which the long debates called forth, the speeches of King and Pinkney are the best representatives of the two sides to the controversy, and they are of historical interest and importance. John Quincy Adams' leadership in the dramatic struggle over the right of petition in the House of Representatives, and his opinion on the constitutional power of the national government over the institution of slavery within the States, will always excite the attention of the historical student.