Subject: Debates and debating

This book contains a debate between Robert Green Ingersoll, a prominent 19th-century American agnostic lecturer, and J. B. McClure, with a rebuttal by Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati, Ohio. Published around 1879, it represents a notable early example of a public intellectual exchange in the United States involving a prominent atheist and a well-known Jewish religious figure. The book includes Ingersoll's lecture and the responses from McClure and Rabbi Wise.

This pamphlet reprints a speech delivered by Judah P. Benjamin in the U.S. Senate on May 8, 1860. The speech addresses Jefferson Davis's resolutions concerning slavery in the territories. Benjamin argues for the constitutionality of the resolutions and refutes Stephen Douglas's Popular Sovereignty doctrine. Published by Murphy & Co. of Baltimore, this 8-page pamphlet is significant for its contribution to the escalating tensions leading to the division of the Democratic Party and the secession crisis.