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THE

CONTAINING A VARIETY OF

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED PIECES

TOGETHER WITH

R U L E S;

CALCULATED

TO IMPROVE YOUTH AND OTHERS IN THE

ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL

ART OF ELOQUENCE.

BY CALEB BINGHAM, A. M.
Author of the American Preceptor, Young Lady's Accidence, Ss.

« Cato cultivated ELOQuence, as a necessary mean for defending
the Rights of the People, and for enforcing good Counsels."

ROLLIN.

SEVENTH TROY EDITION.

Trop :

PRINTED AND SOLD BY WILLIAM S. PARKER,

AT THE TROY BOOK STORE.

1821.

NARVATO COLLEGE LISRARY

BY EXCHANGE

FEB 28 1942

District of Massachusetts, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of L. S. Noveniber, A. D. 9810, and in the thirty-fifth year of the

Independence of the United States of America, CALEB Bingham of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereofhe claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: “ The Columbian Orator : containing a variety of original and selected pieces ; together with rales; calculated co improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence. By.CALEB BINGHAM, A. M. author of the American Preceptor, Young Lady's Accidence, &c. • Cato cultivated cloquence, as a necessary mean for defending the rights of the people, and for cnforcing good counselsRollin.”

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors' of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and al. so to an Act entitled, “An Act supplementary to an-Ad, entitled; An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprictors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the · Benefits thercof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other prints."

WILLIAM S: SHAW,
Clerk of the District of Alassacbusetts.

PRE FACE..

NOTWITHSTANDING the multiplicity of School-Books, now in nse, it has been often suggested that a Selection, calculated particularly for. Dialogue and Declamation, Rould be of extenfive utility in our feminaries.

The art of Oratory needs no encomium. To cultivate its rudiments, and diffuse its spirit among the routh of America, is the design of this Book.

Of the many pieces which this volume contains, three only are to be found in any publication of the kind. A barge proportion is entirely original. To those, who have alifted him in this part, the author returns bis warmest acknowledgments.

The COLUMBIAN ORATOR is designed for a Second Part to the AMERICAN PRECEPTOR; for this reafan, no pieces are inserted from that book..

As no advantage could arise from a methodical ar. rangement, the Author has preferred variety to system.

In his choice of materials, it has been his object to select fuch as fbould inspire the pupil with the ardor of eloquence, and the love of virtue. He has spared no pains to render the Work, in every respect, worthy of the generous patronage, which a liberal public have. bestowed on his former publications.

BOSTON, May 17, 1797.