Excerpt from Oratory of the South: From the Civil War to the Present Time In most instances the selections are short enough for use as declamations in the schools and colleges; and in those cases where they are too long for such use, the teacher or student, by omitting one or more paragraphs, and supplying, it may be, a connecting sentence or two, may readily reduce any selection to the desired length. The thanks of the editor are due to many teachers and public men in the South for helpful suggestions, and especially to the hundreds of public speakers who so kindly responded to requests for copies of their speeches. In most cases, indeed, the material for the selections in this work was furnished by the speakers themselves. 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.