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Title: Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)
Orators and Reformers

Author: Various

Editor: Asa Don Dickinson

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STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT, VOLUME III

Orators and Reformers

Edited by

ASA DON DICKINSON

Orators and Reformers

DESMOSTHENES
ELIHU BURRITT
JOHN B. GOUGH
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
HENRY WARD BEECHER
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BEN. B. LINDSEY

[Frontispiece: Henry Ward Beecher]

Garden City ---- New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1925
Copyright, 1916, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received from
several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright
material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In
particular, acknowledgments are due to the Houghton Mifflin Company for
the extract concerning Elihu Burritt; to George W. Jacobs & Co. for the
extract from Booker T. Washington's "Frederick Douglass"; to P. B.
Bromfield for permission to use passages from "The Biography of Henry
Ward Beecher"; to the late Booker T. Washington for permission to
reprint extracts from "Up From Slavery"; to Judge Ben. B. Lindsey for
permission to reprint from "The Beast."

CONTENTS

ORATORS AND REFORMERS

DEMOSTHENES
The Orator Who Stammered

ELIHU BURRITT
"The Learned Blacksmith"

JOHN B. GOUGH
The Conquest of a Bad Habit

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The Slave Who Stole Freedom

HENRY WARD BEECHER
The Boy Who Half-heartedly Joined