The Porter Speeches (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Porter, Hon. William) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Porter Speeches In placing this volume before the public, it has been endeavoured, so far as is possible, to arrange, according to date, the utterances of the late Hon. William Porter during his first lustrum of office as Attorney-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, extending from the year 1839 to 1845, and embodying some of the most brilliant and interesting displays of oratorical talent for which the lamented Mr. Porter was so justly famed. It is intended that the speeches reproduced in this volume should silently, but powerfully and eloquently, speak for themselves, as illustrative of the occasions on, and the measures in support of, which they were delivered. It has been the studied endeavour not to leave unrecorded any early public utterance from the time of our distinguished fellow-colonist´s arrival in South Africa up to the last date mentioned, and not to hamper them with any laboured comments of his own, feeling convinced that such a simple course would best meet the desires of many of Mr. Porter´s admirers, and that any such comments would best find a place in the event of a review being published at a later period. Besides this, Mr. Porter´s personality is so fresh within the recollection of so many, that it is the ipsissma verba which are first of all required for perusal. Among the most conspicuous speeches of Mr. Porter, to be found in this volume, are his manly assertion of independence, and the independence of his office, when called upon, almost immediately on admission, to support officially a measure at variance with his own views; some of his earliest and most brilliant addresses at the meetings of the South African Public Library, an institution in which he took an unvarying interest; his earnest speeches in favour of the erection of a light-house at Cape L´Agulhas; on Infant Schools, Immigration, Paper Currency, Taxation, Labour, Roads and Magistrates, the Judicial Establishment, the Administration of Justice, and on every other measure of importance which came under the notice of the old Legislative Council during the seven years which this volume covers. It is hoped, therefore, that it will be found to be a valuable contribution to the legislative and general history of that period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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