Southern Literature From 1579-1895 / A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms / for the use of schools and the general reader

Table of Contents

In Chronological Order.

FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750.

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John Smith, 1579-1631	33
Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas	35
Our Right to Those Countries	38
Ascent of the River James, 1607	42
William Strachey, in America 1609-12	45
A Storm Off the Bermudas	45
John Lawson, in America 1700-08	48
North Carolina in 1700-08	49
Harvest Home of the Indians	53
William Byrd, 1674-1744	54
Selecting the Site of Richmond and Petersburg, 1733	58
A Visit to Ex-Governor Spotswood, 1732	58
Dismal Swamp, 1728	61
The Tuscarora Indians and Their Legend of a Christ, 1729	65

SECOND PERIOD ... 1750-1800.

Henry Laurens, 1724-1792	67
A Patriot in the Tower	68
George Washington, 1732-1799	71
An Honest Man	73
How to Answer Calumny	74
Conscience	74
On his Appointment as Commander-in-Chief, 1775	74
A Military Dinner-Party	76
Advice to a Favorite Nephew	76
Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796	77
Union and Liberty	77
Party Spirit	79
Religion and Morality	81
Patrick Henry, 1736-1799	82
Remark on Slavery, 1788	84
Not Bound by State Lines	84
If This Be Treason, 1765	84
The Famous Revolution Speech, 1775	84
William Henry Drayton, 1742-1779	87
George III.’s Abdication of Power in America	89
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826	91
Political Maxims	94
Religious Opinions at the Age of Twenty	94
Scenery at Harper’s Ferry, and at the Natural Bridge	95
On Freedom of Religious Opinion	98
On the Discourses of Christ	98
Religious Freedom (the Act of 1786)	98
Letter to his Daughter	100
Jefferson’s Last Letter, 1826	101
David Ramsay, 1749-1815	103
British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755	105
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie, 28 June, 1776	106
Sumpter and Marion	107
James Madison, 1751-1836	109
Opinion of Lafayette	110
Plea for a Republic	111
Character of Washington	112
St. George Tucker, 1752-1828	113
Resignation, or Days of My Youth	115
John Marshall, 1755-1835	116
Power of the Supreme Court	117
The Duties of a Judge	118
Henry Lee, 1756-1818	119
Capture of Fort Motte by Lee and Marion, 1780	120
The Father of His Country	124
Mason Locke Weems, 1760-1825	126
The Hatchet Story	126
John Drayton, 1766-1822	127
A Revolutionary Object Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism 1775	128
The Battle of Noewee, 1776	129
William Wirt, 1772-1834	131
The Blind Preacher (James Waddell)	132
Mr. Henry against John Hook	135
John Randolph, 1773-1833	137
Revision of the State Constitution, 1829	138
George Tucker, 1775-1861	140
Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life	142
Establishment of the University of Virginia	143

THIRD PERIOD ... 1800-1850.

Henry Clay, 1777-1852	147
To Be Right above All	148
No Geographical Lines in Patriotism	148
Military Insubordination	148
Francis Scott Key, 1780-1843	151
The Star-Spangled Banner	151
John James Audubon, 1780-1851	153
The Mocking-Bird	155
The Humming-Bird	157
Thomas Hart Benton, 1782-1858	158
The Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826	159
John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850	161
War and Peace	164
System of Our Government	164
Defence of Nullification	164
The Wise Choice	166
Official Patronage	167
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1784-1851	167
The Partisan Leader	168
David Crockett, 1786-1836	173
Spelling and Grammar: Prologue To His Autobiography	173
On a Bear-hunt	175
Motto: Be Sure You Are Right	178
Richard Henry Wilde, 1789-1847	178
My Life Is Like the Summer Rose	179
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1790-1870	180
Ned Brace at Church	180
A Sage Conversation	182
Robert Young Hayne, 1791-1839	185
State Sovereignty and Liberty	185
Sam Houston, 1793-1863	189
Cause of the Texan War of Independence	190
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836	193
How To Deal With the Indians	196
William Campbell Preston, 1794-1860	199
Literary Society in Columbia, S.C., 1825	201
John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795-1870	204
A Country Gentleman in Virginia	205
His Wife	207
How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men	210
Hugh Swinton LegarÉ, 1797-1843	217
Commerce and Wealth vs. War	217
Demosthenes’ Courage	219
A Duke’s Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, in 1825	221
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, 1798-1859	223
The Daughter of Mendoza	223
Francis Lister Hawks, 1798-1866	224
The First Indian Baptism in America	225
Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America	226
The Lost Colony of Roanoke	226
George Denison Prentice, 1802-1870	228
The Closing Year	228
Paragraphs	231
Edward Coate Pinkney, 1802-1828	231
A Health	232
Song: We Break the Glass	233
Charles Étienne Arthur GayarrÉ, 1805-1895	235
Louisiana in 1750-1770	236
The Tree of the Dead	240
Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806-1873	243
The Gulf Stream	246
Deep-Sea Soundings	247
Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon	249
William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870	252
Sonnet—The Poet’s Vision	255
The Doom of Occonestoga	255
Marion, the “Swamp-Fox”	262
Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870	265
Duty—To His Son	266
Human Virtue—At the Surrender	266
His Last Order, 1865	266
Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College	268
Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889	269
Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to General Jackson	271
Life of the President of the United States	272
Farewell to the Senate, 1861	274
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849	276
To Helen	279
Israfel	279
Happiness	281
The Raven	281
Robert Toombs, 1810-1885	284
Farewell to the Senate, 1861	286
Octavia Walton Le Vert, 1810-1877	288
To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855	289
Louisa Susannah M’Cord, 1810-1880	291
Woman’s Duty	292
Joseph G. Baldwin, 1811-1864	294
Virginians in a New Country	294
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812-1883	296
Laws of Government	297
Sketch in the Senate, 1850	298
True Courage	301
Alexander Beaufort Meek, 1814-1865	301
Red Eagle, or Weatherford	302
Philip Pendleton Cooke, 1816-1850	305
Florence Vane	305
Theodore O’Hara, 1820-1867	308
Bivouac of the Dead	308

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1895.

George Rainsford Fairbanks, 1820-	311
Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles	311
Richard Malcolm Johnston, 1822-	314
Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery	315
John Reuben Thompson, 1823-1873	317
Ashby	318
Music in Camp	319
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 1825-	321
Relations between England and America	322
Margaret Junkin Preston, 1825-	324
The Shade of the Trees	324
Charles Henry Smith, (“Bill Arp”), 1826-	326
Big John, on the Cherokees	327
St. George H. Tucker, 1828-1863	329
Burning of Jamestown in 1676	330
George William Bagby, 1828-1883	332
Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing	332
Sarah Anne Dorsey, 1829-1879	336
A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866	338
Henry Timrod, 1829-1867	341
Sonnet—Life Ever Seems	344
English Katie	344
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