Excerpt from American State Trials, Vol. 16: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Taken Place in the United States, From the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day
To this volume of American State Trials the editor has chosen to give the name, The Book of Great Speeches. Replete with the eloquence, the skill and the tremendous force of such advocates as Alexander Hamilton, William H. Seward, Rufus Choate and Robert G. Ingersoll, it abundantly justifies the choice.
N 0 more splendid collection of oratory may be had in any state or nation than the addresses of counsel in its most celebrated trials.
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