ARGUMENTS AND SPEECHES

OF

WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY HIS SON

SHERMAN EVARTS

In Three Volumes

VOL. II

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1919

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1919, by

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and printed. Published September, 1919.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

PROFESSIONAL ARGUMENTS

IX. Summing up to the jury for the defendant, May,

1875, in the case of Theodore Tilton against Henry

Ward Beecher....

X. Arguments before the Electoral Commission, Feb-

ruary, 1877, in the disputed Presidential Election

of 1876, on behalf of the Republican Party, on the

counting of the electoral votes of Florida, Loui-

siana and Oregon...

XI. Árgument in the Supreme Court of the United States

in the case of Farrington against Saunders-

December Term 1870. (Cotton Tax Case).....

POLITICAL AND PATRIOTIC SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

I. Two articles published in "The New World" October

2 and 16, 1841, entitled "Mr. Webster's Position"

and "Mr. Tyler and the Whig Party"..

II. Speech at the "Union" Meeting held in Castle

Garden New York, October 30, 1850. The Fugi-

tive Slave Law. (Castle Garden Speech)..

III. An address to the People of the United States ad-

vocating the nomination of Daniel Webster for the

Presidency, adopted at a mass meeting in New

York, March 5, 1852.

IV. Speech at the meeting in the "Broadway Taber-

nacle," New York, April 29, 1856, First Repub-

lican Meeting in New York. (The Tabernacle

Speech)..

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V. Speech at a mass meeting in the Academy of Music,

New York, October 22, 1856, under the auspices

of the Young Men's Republican General Com-

mittee.

455

VI. Speech at the Eighteenth Ward Republican Festival,

February 22, 1860....

479

VII. Speech at Auburn, N. Y., October 16, 1860, on the Is-

sues of the Day.

488

VIII. Speech at the Great Union Meeting in Union Square,

New York, Saturday, April 20, 1861 . . . .

529

IX. Speech at the Republican Union Festival, New York

February 22, 1862...

533

X. Speech at Cooper Institute on political reform April
6, 1871....

541

Speech at Convention held in Chickering Hall, New

York, to nominate candidates for office in New

York City in opposition to Tammany Hall and the

Tweed Ring, October 20, 1871.

557

Speech at Republican mass meeting held at Cooper

Institute October 25, 1871...

560

Speech at mass meeting in Cooper Institute under the

auspices of the "Committee of Seventy," Novem-

ber 2, 1871...

570

XI. Speech at mass meeting in Cooper Institute to protest

against the action of U. S. troops in Louisiana,

January 11, 1875..

574

XII. Speech in Cooper Institute in the Hayes-Tilden pres-

idential campaign, November 1, 1876...

585

XIII. Speech in Academy of Music in the Garfield-Hancock

presidential campaign, October 20, 1880....

621