America First: Patriotic Readings

CONTENTS

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Jasper L. McBrien

Introduction		13
Tableau—The Spirit of Seventy-Six		19
Cast of Characters		20
The Continental Congress—A Dramatization		21

AMERICAN PATRIOTISM
What is Patriotism	Jasper L. McBrien	71
America for Me	Henry van Dyke	73
America First	Woodrow Wilson	75
The Meaning of the Flag	Woodrow Wilson	83
Makers of the Flag	Franklin K. Lane	87
The Flag of the Union Forever	Fitzhugh Lee	90
Farewell Address	George Washington	94
Washington	John W. Daniel	104
Abraham Lincoln	Henry Watterson	129
Second Inaugural Address	Abraham Lincoln	151
Robert E. Lee	E. Benjamin Andrews	154
Our Reunited Country	Clark Howell	163
The Blue and the Gray	Henry Cabot Lodge	171
A Reminiscence of Gettysburg	John B. Gordon	175
The New South	Henry W. Grady	181
The Duty and Value of Patriotism	Archbishop Ireland	195
Our Country	William McKinley	202
Behold the American	T. DeWitt Talmage	206
The Hollander as an American	Theodore Roosevelt	212
The Adopted Citizen	Ulysses S. Grant	217
Our Navy	Hampton L. Carson	220
The Patriotism of Peace	William J. Bryan	232
A Plea for Universal Peace	George W. Norris	238
Gettysburg Address	Abraham Lincoln	255
Neutrality Proclamation	Woodrow Wilson	256

POETRY OF PATRIOTISM
Concord Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson	261
Warren's Address	John Pierpont	262
Patriotism	Sir Walter Scott	Clyx.com