THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Jerry Tarver Elocution, Rhetoric

and Oratory Collection

Gift of Jerry Tarver

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

THE

AMERICAN SPEAKER:

BEING

A COLLECTION OF PIECES

IN

PROSE, POETRY, AND DIALOGUE;

DESIGNED

FOR EXERCISES IN DECLAMATION, OR FOR OCCASIONAL
READING IN SCHOOLS.

BY CHARLES NORTHEND, A. M.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE EPES SCHOOL, SALEM, MASS.; AUTHOR OF SCHOOL
DIALOGUES; COMMON SCHOOL BOOK-KEEPING,

AND YOUNG COMPOSER.

IMPROVED EDITION.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & CO.,
་ No. 51 JOHN-STREET.

CINCINNATI:-H. W. DERBY & CO.

1852.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, bv

CHARLES NORTHEND,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS;

NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY,
BOSTON.