Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sovereignty of the State, an Oration: Address to the Survivors of the Eighth Virginia Regiment
The fact that there are incompetent workers in oratory and in poetry, as in all the affairs of men, does not supply proper motive for the debasement of two noble arts.
This account of the sovereignty of the states is an oration. So it is called.
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