Rhetorical Analysis Of Senator James Henry Hammond

Senator James Henry Hammond delivered a speech to reflect on the hard work slaves and slaveholders they have done which was beneficial to countries in Europe. Their increasingly amount of cotton was very serviceable and that it should be credited to all the slaves and to the slaveholder who helped other country save a lot of money on cotton and giving the last of the money to charity. “That cotton, but for the bursting of your speculative bubbles in the North, which produced the whole of this convulsion, would have brought us $100,000,000. We have sold it for $65,000,000 and saved you. Thirty-five million dollars we, the slaveholders of the South, have put into the charity box for your magnificent financiers, your "cotton lords," your "merchant princes." He also wanted to expand on the idea of having cotton enough for a land and not needing a war for it. The rhetorical strategies he greatly uses is personification and syntax. He figuratively describes his land with pride calling it as if it’s a family since they are all bound together. “Through the heart of our

“Eight hundred and fifty thousand square miles. As large as Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Spain.” If a country is just as big as other popular countries and has many necessities, no one should say anything contradictory about it. He mentions the amount of cotton it contains and how it even helped those European countries. If a country can support other countries in need, no war should be visible and it makes it totally acceptable for people like Senator James Henry Hammond to get angry at this. He makes a point that other countries should be very grateful to be getting cotton because it’s not an easy crop to get. He used rhetorical devices to provide his argument a solid reason on why this treatment from other countries isn’t fair considering the South slaves has done all they needed to