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A Rhetorical Study of Selected Ceremonial Speeches of Charles Betts Galloway, 1893-1908 Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1979 A Rhetorical Study of Selected Ceremonial Speeches of Charles Betts Galloway, 1893-1908. Charlene Jeanette Handford Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Handford, Charlene Jeanette, "A Rhetorical Study of Selected Ceremonial Speeches of Charles Betts alG loway, 1893-1908." (1979). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 3437. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/3437 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. 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Requests can be made to our Dissertations Customer Services Department. 5. Some pages in any document may have indistinct print. In all cases we have film' d the best available copy. University M k rrin lm s International 300 N ZEEB ROAD, ANN ARBOR. Ml dfilOB 18 BEDFORD ROW. LONDON WCtR 4EJ ENG LAND 8013118 HANDFORD, CHARLENE JEANETTE A RHETORICAL STUDY OF SELECTED CEREMONIAL SPEECHES OF CHARLES BETIS GALLOWAY, 1893-1908 The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical Col. PH.D. 1979 University Microfilms International 300 N. Zeeb Rod. Ann Arbor, M I 48106 18 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4EJ, Enflud Copyright isso by HANDFORD, CHARLENE JEANETTE All Rights Reserved RHETORICAL STUDY OF SELECTED CEREMONIAL SPEECHES OF CHARLES BETTS GALLOWAY, 1893-1908 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillm ent of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy I n The Department of Speech by Charlene Jeanette Handford B.A., Arkansas College, 1963 M.A., University of Arkansas, 1968 December 1979 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS While the author Is Indebted to numerous Individuals for their encouragement and assistance, major contributors Include the following: Dr. Harold Mixon for his patience, support, and ca re fu1 editing... Dr. Waldo W. Braden for suggesting the topic and for his Insights In southern oratory... Dr, Clinton Bradford, Dr. John Pennybacker, and Dr. Fabian Gudas for their editing and suggestions... Mr, Danny Champion for providing materials from his own research on Galloway... and the administration, faculty, staff, and students at Louisiana State University in Shreveport for their encourage­ ment and understanding. Truly, this writer was blessed with overwhelming sup­ port from colleagues and friends. Yet, one Individual, more than any other, deserves her deepest gratitude. because he threatened, nagged, pleaded, inspired, and refused to let the author give up, this dissertation Is dedicated to Dr. Dalton Cloud. I I TABLE OF CONTENTS Pag* ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.............................................................................................................II ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................... v Chapte r I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... I STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ................................................... I JUSTIFICATION.................................................................................. 3 THE NATURE OF GALLOWAY'S ORATORY ............................... 5 SOURCES AND CONTRIBUTORY STUDIES ............................... 9 PLAN OF ANALYSIS........................................................................ 10 CHAPTER CONTENT............................................................................. 16 II, THE SPEAKER: CHARLES BETTS GALLOWAY .......................... (8 BACKGROUND AND EARLY YEARS.....................................................18 COLLEGE YEARS........................................................................................21 HIS MINISTRY........................................................................................2k EDITORSHIP OF THE NEW ORLEANS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE..............................................................................................26 ACTIVITIES AS BISHOP .............................................................. 27 WORK FOR EDUCATION.........................................................................31 ROLE AS SPOKESMAN FOR MISSISSIPPI AND THE NEW SOUTH..............................................................................................36 ORATORY........................................................................................................51 SUMMARY........................................................................................................55 I I I Chapter Page I I I . GALLOWAY'S SPEECHES AT CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS. 58 GALLOWAY'S SPEECH AT THE DEDICATION OF HILLSAPS COLLEGE ................................................................... 58 GALLOWAY'S ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW STATE CAPITOL...............................................................84 GALLOWAY'S SPEECH AT THE CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH........................................................125 GALLOWAY'S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI...................................................I 6 1 IV. GALLOWAY'S LECTURES....................................................................194 GALLOWAY'S FIRST LECTURE IN THE COLE SERIES................................................................................................195 GALLOWAY'S FIRST LECTURE IN THE QUILLI AN SERIES................................................................................................220 SUMMARY.....................................................................................................245 V. CONCLUSION..............................................................................247 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................... 261 VITA ....................................................................................................................................268 I v ABSTRACT This dissertation analyzes six ceremonial addresses delivered by Charles Betts Galloway between 1893 and 1908. Of the six discourses the occasions Included the dedication of Htllsaps College, the dedication of a new state capttol, the Seventh Annual Conference for Education In the South, a commencement day address, and two lecture series. Dedicated to a variety of causes, Galloway utilized these ceremonial events to express his personal sentiments regarding the value of Christian education, the role of the New South, educa­ tional and legal Justice for blacks, the actions of Jefferson Davis and the South before and during the Civil War, the church's support of missions, and the Influence of Protestant Christianity over government. The study produced five conclusions. First, Galloway apparently took great care In researching and preparing his speeches. Often stating or clearly Implying his theme and purpose, the orations suggest that the speaker followed a carefully thought-out plan. His personal scrapbook contains clippings of quotations, lines of verse, etc., which he pos­ sibly utilized In his public discourses, and his oratory occasionally contained Ideas employed by other speakers such as the separate-but-equal theory of race relations previously advocated by Booker T. Washington In his "Atlanta Exposition Address." Not totally dominated by unrealistic Idealism, Galloway's orations reveal a practical strategist who worked as best he could with what opportunities were available and utilized hfs knowledge of his region, his education,
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