Various scans of the original book at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Columbian%20Orat...
An aside:
The visual design of this website is lovely. It contains no distractions, no sexy, elaborate web design. It's just the article and relevant images.
It's also a superb piece, so I decided to get a subscription to Humanities, in which it appears. This brought me to https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/, which is one of the fastest, snappiest mobile websites I've used in quite a while. Navigating it is a stark reminder of just how bad most websites are and how terrible their performance.
When I click on the three horizontal bars in the upper left, the menu appears immediately. There is no delay or animation. Likewise when I click through its three items. I wish this were standard web design, rather than animation-laden, visually diffuse "mobile friendly" patterns that are essentially allergic to informational density when it isn't offset by a generous helping of stock photography and god-awful allegria art.
Weather.gov, along these same lines, is one of my favorite websites.
Frederick Douglass always amazes me.
I hate to think this, but with today's US Gov and this being a .gov site, I wonder when it will be purged.
I just went to the wayback machine to the save the page to be safe, but nice to see it was already saved!
Rhetoric is part of the part of the Trivium[0] and was taught to elite American kids getting a Classical education starting around the age of 15. By this time they would have already studied Latin grammar and a bit of logic and dialectic.
I imagine some advanced students also read some selections on the topic by Cicero.
Are more books/sources like this that has contributed to the peculiarly formal American fiction that is found (for example in many people Peter Santanello talks with in his youtube channel). Mostly they are people from small towns, but they seem to speak ain highly structured, even ornate manner.
There’s a copy online at HathiTrust:
Every time I read Douglass I feel so humbled.
How is this book not in Project Gutenburg?
As a side note: Columbia/Columbian used to be a byword for america https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)