Speech in the Convention of Virginia. John Randolph 200 Speech before the Legislature of Virginia..P. Henry 202 The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger...Anonymous 304 The Country Bumpkin and Razor Seller....Wolcott 305 AMERICAN ORATOR'S OWN BOOK. INTRODUCTION. THE faculty of forming a just succession of correct ideas, and of delivering them with clearness, fluency and elegance, has commonly been esteemed one of the most difficult attainments, and one of the most enviable distinctions, with which a human being can be endowed. There is perhaps no condition of life, in which the ability to arrange and express what the mind suggests, is not useful as well as pleasing. In many departments of human action it is almost indispensable: and a momentary recollection of those who have obtained the largest share of reverence, will suggest how great a value has always been placed on true oratory. The situations in this free country in which |