The Social PrincipleSpeech | The Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama | 1843 William Gilmore Simms delivered his lecture The Social Principle: The True Source of National Permanence to the Erosophic Society[1] at the University of Alabama on 13 December 1842 during the occasion of his receiving an honorary LL.D. degree from that university.[2] An important text in Simms studies, this oration marks “Simms’s single most extensive published exposition of his social philosophy.”[3] He took as the genesis for his talk what he perceived as the fundamentally changed nature of the environs of western Alabama from his previous visit to the area, ... |
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The Sources of American IndependenceSpeech | The Town Council of Aiken, SC | 1844
The Sources of
American Independence. An Oration, on the Sixty-Ninth Anniversary of American
Independence was delivered by William Gilmore Simms on 4 July 1844 in
Aiken, SC. As its long title suggests,
the speech was composed to celebrate the sixty-nine years of American
nationhood since the Declaration of Independence; what is unmentioned in the
title but equally relevant to an understanding of this work is the fact that it
was composed essentially as a stump speech[1]
during Simms’s successful 1844 run for a seat in the South Carolina State
Legislature. Giving a speech ... |
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