experience:

 

We have answered this question a good many times in the past. The fathers

answered it in 1776, and founded the Republic upon their answer, which has been

the corner-stone. John Quincy Adams and James Monroe answered it again in the

Monroe Doctrine, which John Quincy Adams declared was only the doctrine of the

consent of the governed. The Republican party answered it when it took

possession of the force of government at the beginning of the most brilliant

period in all legislative history. Abraham Lincoln answered it when, on that

fatal journey to Washington in 1861, he announced that as the doctrine of his

political creed, and declared, with prophetic vision, that he was ready to be

assassinated for it if need be. You answered it again yourselves when you said

that Cuba, who had no more title than the people of the Philippine Islands had

to their independence, of right ought to be free and independent.

 

--GEORGE F. HOAR.

 

Appeal to the things that man holds dear is another potent form of persuasion.

 

Joseph Story, in his great Salem speech (1828) used this method most

dramatically:

 

I call upon you, fathers, by the shades of your ancestors--by the dear ashes

which repose in this precious soil--by all you are, and all you hope to

be--resist every object of disunion, resist every encroachment upon your