Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
History
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Speeches, addresses, etc.
"LAW" 872
Photo-engraving in colors after the original mosaic
panel by Frederick Dielman
HORACE PORTER 897
Photogravure after a photograph from life
THE MINUTE MAN 936
Photogravure after a photograph
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 998
Photogravure after a photograph from life
LORD ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE) 1008
Photogravure after a photograph from life
HENRY WATTERSON 1189
Photogravure after a photograph from life
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE FOREFATHERS 1210
Photogravure after a photograph
THOMAS NELSON PAGE
THE TORCH OF CIVILIZATION
[Speech of Thomas Nelson Page at the twentieth annual dinner of the
New England Society in the City of Brooklyn, December 21, 1899. The
President, Frederic A. Ward, said: "In these days of blessed amity,
when there is no longer a united South or a disunited North, when
the boundary of the North is the St. Lawrence and the boundary of
the South the Rio Grande, and Mason and Dixon's Line is forever
blotted from the map of our beloved country, and the nation has
grown color-blind to blue and gray, it is with peculiar pleasure
that we welcome here to-night a distinguished and typical
representative of that noble people who live in that part of the
present North that used to be called Dixie, of whom he has himself
so beautifully and so truly said, 'If they bore themselves
haughtily in their hour of triumph, they bore defeat with splendid
fortitude. Their entire system crumbled and fell around them in
ruins; they remained unmoved; they suffered the greatest
humiliation of modern times; their slaves were put over them; they
reconquered their section and preserved the civilization of the
Anglo-Saxon.' It is not necessary, ladies and gentlemen, that I
should introduce the next speaker to you, for I doubt not that you
all belong to the multitude of mourners, who have wept real tears
with black Sam and Miss Annie beside the coffin of Marse Chan; but
I will call upon our friend, Thomas Nelson Page, to respond to the
next toast, 'The Debt Each Part of the Country Owes the Other.'"]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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