Reference-Replace. Friedman 12-29-24 11227 PREFACE ΤΟ THE ORATORS OF AMERICA Part III HIS, the tenth volume of the World's Orators THIS Series, is devoted to the great Public Speakers of the period of the Civil War. The orators of that era departed from the classical style of their predecessors. It was not a departure in sequence, but a tangential diversity in style. Thus began the methods of to-day-methods not yet valued, and not yet at their highest development. In completing this volume, and with it the series, I desire to express my obligations to my Advisory Council and Board of Associate Editors. I must also in grateful appreciation especially thank my collaborators, Joseph Cullen Ayer, Mitchell Carroll, and John R. Larus, for their unstinted assistance, which alone has rendered possible the completion of the series within the time set for its issue. I am under par |