Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration.”I have seen published in one of your late papers the treaty between the United States and Cherokees west of the Mississippi.
Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.”But here I pause, in melancholy suspense, in view of the storm that is gathering over our beloved country, the Ottoman-like policy, that threatens to entomb our laws, our most sacred rights and privileges in oblivion, and to put an end to our national existence.
Which rhetorical situation best reflects the appeal known as pathos?
When speakers use the rhetorical appeal known as logos, they
Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration.”Our political Government keeps pace by gradual changes, as we imbibe new principles of legislation, with our domestic advancement. Our population is not on the wane in consequence of our situation amidst the whites, but is rapidly increasing—the implements of husbandry have been substituted for the bow and quiver. In short we possess all the enjoyments adequate to the support of common life.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.”The success of our economic system has freed [young people of today] in ever-increasing numbers from the tragedies of premature mortality and early labor. It has built the schools in which they are being educated to higher levels than ever in our nation’s history. And this progress has been achieved in a political system that not only admits but safeguards the right of dissent.So it should hardly surprise us when the children of such progress demand to be heard when they become aware of inequities still to be corrected. Neither should we fear their voices. On the contrary, whether we know it or not, the marching feet of youth have led us into a new era of politics, and we can never turn back.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.”Fellow Democrats, we are here tonight because in large part we share our faith in our country and in its processes of orderly, humanistic change.Change and challenge should not deter us now. We have long been a party of change and challenge.The need for new ideas and improved institutions should not deter us now. We have long been a party of new ideas.That today’s crisis is one of the human spirit should not deter us. We have long been a party which gave priority to the needs of human beings.So let us go forward with programs, responsive to the needs of today and responsive to the needs of tomorrow.Fellow Americans, this is our country. Its future is what we, its citizens, will make it.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.”What should concern us is something far more fundamental. The true dimension of the challenge facing us is a loss of faith. I do not mean simply a loss of religious faith, although this erosion is a major contributor to our unease. I mean a loss of faith in our country, in its purposes, and in its institutions. I mean a retreat from the responsibilities of citizenship.
Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.”What will be our fate, God only knows. Georgia is extending her laws over us and at the same time stripping us of every right and privilege—agents of the United States are assiduous to induce us to quit our native homes. If this is not oppression, I know not what it is. Should we finally fall a sacrifice to the avarice of this fair, free and happy republic, as it is called, the sad news, no doubt will reach London, Paris, and Madrid as a stigma on its boasted character. Nay the mournful story will be reiterated in St. Petersburg. Oppressed Greece, too, will sympathize with us and drop a tear over our funeral pile.
Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration.”Now why deprive us of all our comforts, tear us from all we hold dear, and drag us from the soil which gave us birth, rendered doubly precious, as the bones of our fathers have been deposited here from time immemorial, to accomplish that which is now in rapid progression?
Which rhetorical situation best reflects the appeal known as pathos?
Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration.”[W]hen the game becomes scarce, by being killed up, or driven farther westward, how will [other Indigenous people] support themselves? penetrate farther into the forest, or turn their attention to agricultural pursuits? suppose the latter, and where will they have sufficiency of good lands for cultivation? In the event we were to remove and be united with them, our laws would clash with theirs, we should have our own peculiar partialities and prejudices, and they would have theirs; in consequence of this difference perhaps a few avaricious speculating individuals would solicit from the General Government, a set of laws, as stipulated in the 6th article of the treaty. Imagine then how our internal affairs would be regulated, harrassed [sic] on the one side, and embarrassed on the other. Repentance then for the past would be too late.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.”In at least two of our greatest universities, learning has been brought to a halt by student rebellions. Others of the student revolution have publicly burned draft cards and even the American flag.
Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.”We are told that we must go westward, that there we shall become a great people. But what nation or tribe have rendered themselves prosperous by removing the wilds of the west?
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