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Walls, singular natural ones on the banks of the Missouri

Cascade, description of one on the river Missouri

Shoshonee Indians, manners and customs of

Missouri river, description of

Canoes, description of those used by the Indians on the Columbia

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Chili, singular customs of the inhabitants of

Tortoises, description of those found on the islands of the Pacific

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Water Gap, Lehigh, description of

Nooaheeva, Island of, description of a place of religious ceremony

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Mounds, remarkable, near Cahokia

Warlike weapons, description of those used by the natives of the
island of Noosheeva

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U. States troops, sufferings of a party of
Montgomery Gen. death of

Cornwallis Lord, Surrender of

French massacres of, by the Indians

Indians massacre by, and retaliation by the whites

American troops, distressing situation of a party of, in the campaign

of 1775

American officer, ingenious stratagem of an

Welsh nation, proof of one existing in America
Henry Patrick, account of his first speech

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Independence, declaration of

Washington George, the illustrious, eulogy on

Marshall Mr. speech of, on the death of General Washington

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Ames Mr. speech of, on the British Treaty

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Noland Mr. speech on the bill to suppress duelling

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Franklin Dr. final speech of, in the federal convention
Henry Patrick, speech of

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Washington General, letter from to Major Lee

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OBJECTIONS

AGAINST ELOQUENCE

CONSIDERED.

THESE objections are three. First, that rhetoric is a pedantic science, overcharged with scholastic subtleties, and innumerable divisions and subdivisions, burdensome to the memory, oppressive to genius, and never applicable to any valuable purpose in the business of the world. Second, that it is a frivolous science, substituting childish declamation instead of manly sense, and adapted rather to the pageantry of a public festival, than to the sober concerns of real life. And third, that it is a pernicious science; the purpose of which is to mislead the judgment by fascinating the imagination. That its tendencies are to subject the reason of men to the control of their passions; to pervert private justice, and to destroy public liberty. These are formidable objections, and unless a sound and satisfactory answer can be given to them all, both your time and mine, my friends, is at this moment very ill employed, and the call I am obliged to make upon your attention, is a trespass upon something more than your patience.

Let me first remark, that the last of these difficulties is not barely at variance with, but in direct hostility to the other two. If rhetoric be a pedantic science, consisting of nothing but a tedious and affected enumeration of the figures of speech, or if it be a frivolous science, teaching only the process of beating up a frothy declamation into seeming consistency, at least it cannot

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