Speeches of Celebrated Irish Orators: Philips, Curran, Grattan, and Emmett's AppealBook published in Philadelphia by Key & Biddle in 1834. Contains speeches by Irish orators Philips, Curran, and Grattan, along with Robert Emmett's appeal at his high treason trial. The book belonged to Simon Mayer, a Jewish Confederate soldier from Natchez, Mississippi, who inscribed it on February 26, 1861, noting significant dates in the secession of Mississippi and the formation of the Confederacy. Mayer served as an aide-de-camp for General Sharpe during the Civil War.