Woodrow Wilson's Speech Analysis

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"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready"(Wilson paragraph 2). These words were said by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States of America, in his speech Final Address in Support of the League of Nations. Wilson gave this speech to congress, on September 25, 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, to persuade them to vote in favor of the Treaty of Versailles and the United States joining the League of Nations. Prior to this speech the First World War broke out between the Central Powers and Allies and America joined to help with the final push back against the Central Powers in 1917. The war ended in 1918 and the Paris Peace conference meet in …show more content…
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 28 of December in 1856. His parents were John and Jessie Wilson and he had two sisters and one brother. When Wilson was younger he as called Tommy. His family moved along the East Coast often when he was younger. Wilson grew up in the south during the civil war and he saw the horrors of it happening around him. In the book, Woodrow Wilson by Anne Schraff, it reads,''All his life he would fear and hate war for causing such suffering"(Schraff12). Schraff believes that the war influence his actions in the First World War later. Wilson was a slow learner when he was younger; he struggled with school until he was 11 years old. He was taught by his father and went to school later than what the other children his did. Some historians speculated that he suffered from dyslexia, while others believe that he had no urgency to learn how to read. In his early teens, he expressed, ''My life wouldn't be worth living if it were not for the driving power of religion"(Schraff14). His father was a preacher at their Presbyterian church which helped with his pietism. In 1870, his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson started going to a