Great speakers have shown that they realized the importance of these cementing transitions.  Take for example Burke’s argument that force will be an undesirable instrument to use against the colonies.  He says:  “First, permit me to observe that the use of force shall be temporary.”  The next paragraph he begins:  “My next observation is its uncertainty.”  He follows that with:  “A further observation to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavor to preserve it.”  And he concludes:  “Lastly, we have no sort of experience in favor of force as an instrument in the rule of our colonies.”  He used this principle to perhaps even greater advantage when he argued that “a fierce spirit of liberty had grown up in the colonies.”  He supports this with claims which are introduced as follows: 

“First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen.”

“They were further confirmed in this pleasing error [their spirit of liberty] by the form of their provincial legislative assemblies.”

“If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect.”

“There is, in the South, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward.  It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have a vast multitude of slaves.”

“Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit.  I mean their education.”

“The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things.  Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them.”

He finally summarizes these in this way, which further ties them together.

“Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.”

It may be well also to point out more clearly the somewhat special nature of the first speeches on each side.  The first speech of the affirmative must, of course, make clear to the judges and the audience what you wish them to believe.  This will involve all the steps which have already been pointed out as necessary to accomplish that result.  The first speaker can gain a great deal for his side by presenting this material not only with great clearness, but in a manner which will win the goodwill of the audience toward himself, his team, and his side of the subject.  To do this, he must be genial, honest, modest, and fair.  He must make his hearers feel that he is not giving a narrow or prejudiced analysis of the question; he must make them feel that his treatment is open and fair to both sides, and that he finally reaches the issues not at all because he wishes to find those issues, but because a thorough analysis of the question will allow him to reach no others.