Rhetorical Analysis Of Alfred Green Speech

Alfred Green
In his speech, Alfred M. Green helped to unite the Union by using various rhetorical devices to help express his three arguments about why African Americans should be allowed to enlist in the Union army. In these arguments, Green points out that dwelling on the discrepancies and mistakes of the leaders of the past is not going to help the black community in the future and that they must fight to improve their status in society. Green also comments that African Americans should try to garner passion and motivation to fight off these southern oppressors despite their unjust subordinate standing in the nation. Green urges his audience to do this because this fulfilled duty to the nation might warrant a better respect and position towards African Americans in society in the future. Green’s final main argument in this speech is that the world is
He does this by tactfully using persuasive logic to point out that those who enforce their lower status in society do not represent the ideals set forth by their fathers, the founding fathers. This is evident when Green points out, “let not the honor and glory achieved by our fathers be blasted or sullied by a want of true heroism among their sons.” In this excerpt, Green logically reminds his audience that the authoritarian control that some white exert over his fellow blacks does not and should not diminish the greatness of the achievements and principles that their ancestors, the founding fathers, attempted to pursue, and that they are still worth pursuing today. Using this logic, Green helps to persuade his fellow African Americans to fight for these ideals to reverse the misdeeds committed by the sons of the founding fathers by uniting with the advancing North to fight the immoral racism of the