Masterpieces of American Eloquence
Howe, Julia Ward![Masterpieces of American Eloquence](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/245/24555780/CHSBZCOP0324555780.jpg)
Excerpt from Masterpieces of American Eloquence: Christian Herald SelectionBut our volume passes from these legacies of the immortal past to the wonderful record of our own century, one in which the new theories were put upon trial. The maxims enunciated by the fathers, the rules laid down, were no doubt very high-sounding, but could a stable government be raised on such a plane, by such a system?We soon see an old-world poison working into th...