Randolph,

70 Defense of Jefferson, Henry Clay, 71 National Hatreds are Barbarous, Rufus Choate, 72 Murder will out, Daniel Webster, 74 Strive for the Best, 75 Early Rising, John G. Saxe, 76 Deeds of Kindness, 77 Gates of Sleep, Dr. John Henry, 78 The Bugle, Tennyson, 79 A Hoodish Gem, 80 Purity of the American Struggle, Hon. H. Wilson, 1859, 80 Old Age, Theodore Parker, 81 Beautiful, and as true as Beautiful, 83 The Deluge, 84 The Worm of the Still, 85 Man's Connection with the Infinite, 87 The Language of the Eagle, 88 Washington, S. S. Cox, 90 America vs. England, David Dudley Field, 91 If we Knew, Ruth Benton, 94

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INTRODUCTION.

It is with real pleasure that this second number of the "Dime Speaker" is given to the public. The issue of the first number has been followed with such a demand as to render this additional volume quite necessary to meet the calls of teachers, students, and others. The experiment of "giving a dollar book for ten cents," which should embrace more new and adaptable pieces for reading and rehearsal—in prose and poetry, serious and humorous—than any single work yet offered, has, it is needless to say, proven a success in every respect; and this second number of our Dime Speaker is given to teachers and scholars in the full assurance of its meeting with their approbation in all respects. It will be found to include some unusually valuable and beautiful pieces for the school-stage, both in prose and verse—most of the matter being from speeches and contributions lately given to the world by the best of our living orators and writers. The effort has been to give as great variety as possible—to suit all tastes and capacities, from the child to the man. It is the purpose of the publishers to continue the series in yearly issues, thus to place in the hands of the youth of our land, at the smallest possible price, books which can not fail to expand their tastes for what is best in style and sentiment, while they shall also offer instruction and amusement, as well to the home circle as to the school-room and exhibition.

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BEADLE'S

DIME SPEAKER,

No. 2.

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THE UNION AND ITS RESULTS.—Edward Everett, July 4th, 1860.

Merely to fill up the wilderness with a population provided with the ordinary institutions and carrying on the customary pursuits of civilized life—though surely no mean achievement—was, by no means, the whole of the work allotted to the United States, and thus far performed with signal activity, intelligence, and success. The founders of America and their descendants have accomplished more and better things. On the basis of a rapid geographical extension, and with the force of teeming numbers, they have, in the very infancy of their political existence, successfully aimed at higher progress in a generous civilization. The mechanical arts have been cultivated with unusual aptitude. Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, navigation, whether by sails or by steam, and the art of printing in all its