Project Gutenberg's Southern Literature From 1579-1895, by Louise Manly This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Author: Louise Manly Release Date: November 16, 2008 [EBook #27279] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOUTHERN LITERATURE FROM 1579-1895 *** Produced by Kevin O'Hare (who provided the book), Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music transcribed by Jana Srna. Transcriber's Note There are a few Greek words in this text, which may require adjustment of your browser settings to display correctly. Hover your mouse over words underlined with a faint red dotted line to see a transliteration. There are a small number of characters with diacritical marks in the text, for example ǎ or ē; you may need to adjust your browser settings for them to display properly. The original text indicated omitted text with varied numbers of spaced periods; this convention has been retained. SOUTHERN LITERATURE From 1579-1895. A Comprehensive Review, with Copious Extracts and Criticisms FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND THE GENERAL READER Containing an Appendix with a Full List of Southern Authors T BY LOUISE MANLY —— ILLUSTRATED —— RICHMOND, VA. B. F. Johnson Publishing Company 1900 —————— Copyright, 1895, by Louise Manly. —————— PREFACE. HE primary object of this book is to furnish our children with material for becoming acquainted with the development of American life and history as found in Southern writers and their works. It may serve as a reader supplementary to American history and literature, or it may be made the ground-work for serious study of Southern life and letters; and between these extremes there are varying degrees of usefulness. To state its origin will best explain its existence. This may furthermore be of some help to teachers in using the book, though each teacher will use it as best suits his classes and methods. The study of History is rising every day in importance. Sir Walter Raleigh in his “Historie of the World” well said, “It hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.” It is the still living word of the vanished ages. The best way of teaching history has of late years received much attention. One excellent method is to read, in connection with the text-book, good works of fiction, dramas, poetry, and historical novels, bearing upon the different epochs, and also to read the works of the authors themselves of these different periods. We thus make history and literature illustrate and beautify each other. The dry dates become covered with living facts, the past is peopled with real beings instead of hard names, fiction receives a solid basis for its airy architecture, and the mind of the pupil is interested and broadened. Even the difficult subjects of politics and institutions gradually assume a more pleasing aspect by being associated with individual human interests, and condescend to simplify themselves through personal relations. To illustrate this method, which I have used with great success in teaching English History: In connection with the times of the early Britons, read Tennyson’s “Idyls of the King.” At the Norman Conquest, Bulwer’s “Harold.” At the reign of Richard I. (Coeur de Lion), Scott’s “Ivanhoe” and “Talisman,” Shakspere’s “King John.” At the reign of Elizabeth, Scott’s “Kenilworth,” the non-historical plays of Shakspere, as he lived at that epoch, Bacon’s Essays, and others. I mention merely a few. The amount of reading can be increased almost indefinitely and will depend on the time of the pupil, the plan of the teacher, and the accessibility of the books. Most of the books necessary for English History are now published in cheap form and are within reach of every pupil. A great deal of reading is very desirable; it is the only way to give our pupils any broad view of literature and history, and to cultivate a taste for reading in those destitute of it. It is often the only opportunity for reading which some pupils will ever have, and it lasts them a life-time as a pleasure and a benefit.[1] The reading may be done in the class or out of school hours. It is well to read as much as practicable in class, and to [Pg 3] [Pg 4] [Pg 5] 1895. have some sketch of the outside reading given in class. Geography must also go hand in hand with history, a point now well understood. But its importance can hardly be exaggerated and its practice is of the utmost value. One must use maps to study and read intelligently. In American History pursue a similar course, as for example: At the period of discovery and early settlement, read Irving’s “Columbus,” Simms’ “Vasconselos” (De Soto’s Expedition), and “Yemassee,” John Smith’s Life and Writings, Longfellow’s “Hiawatha” and “Miles Standish,” Kennedy’s “Rob of the Bowl,” Strachey’s Works, Mrs. Preston’s “Colonial Ballads,” &c. In Revolutionary times, the Revolutionary novels of Simms and Cooper, Kennedy’s “Horse-Shoe Robinson;” the great statesmen of the day, as Jefferson, Adams, Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Washington; Cooke’s “Fairfax” in which Washington appears as a youthful surveyor, and “Virginia Comedians” in which Patrick Henry appears, Thackeray’s “Virginians;” and others. Each teacher will make his own list as his time and command of books allow. And each State or section of our great country will devote more time to its own special history and literature; this is right, for knowledge like charity begins at home, and gradually widens until it embraces the circle of the universe. In collecting material for classes in American History to read in accordance with this plan, it was found easy to get cheap editions of Irving, Longfellow, Cooper, and other writers of the northern States, but almost impossible to get those of the southern, in cheap or even expensive editions. And the present volume has been prepared to supply in part this deficiency. To fit it to the plan suggested, the dates of the writers and the period and character of their works have been indicated, and some selections from them given for reading,—too little, it is feared, to be of much service, and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study. The materials have been found so abundant, even so much more abundant than I suspected when undertaking the work, that it has been a hard task to make a selection from the rich masses of interesting writing. I fear that the work is too fragmentary and contains too many writers to make a lasting impression in a historical point of view. If, however, it leads to a sympathetic study of Southern life and literature, and especially if it makes young people acquainted with our writers of the past and with something of the old-time life and the spirit that controlled our ancestors, it will serve an excellent purpose. Our writers should be compared with those of other sections and other countries; and due honor should be given them, equally removed from over-praise and from depreciation. If we, their countrymen, do not know and honor them, who can be expected to do so? No people is great whose memory is lost, whose interest centres in the present alone, who looks not reverently back to true beginnings and hopefully forward to a grand future. So I would urge my fellow-teachers to a fresh diligence in studying and worthily understanding the life and literature of our past, and in impressing them upon the minds of the rising generation, so as to infuse into the new forms now arising the best and purest and highest of the old forms fast passing away. My sincere thanks are hereby tendered to the scholars who have aided me by their advice and encouragement, to living authors and the relatives of those not living who have generously given me permission to copy extracts from their writings, to the publishers who have kindly allowed me to use copyrighted matter, to Miss Anna M. Trice, Mr. Josiah Ryland, Jr., and the officials of the Virginia State Library where I found most of the books needed in my work, and to Mr. David Hutcheson, of the Library of Congress. My greatest indebtedness is to Professor William Taylor Thom and Professor John P. McGuire, for scholarly criticism and practical suggestions in the course of preparation. Louise Manly. FOOTNOTE: See Professor Woodrow Wilson’s excellent article on the University study of Literature and Institutions, in the Forum, September, 1894. LIST OF WORKS FOR REFERENCE. Appleton: Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 6 vols. Duyckinck: Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 2 vols. Allibone: Dictionary of Authors, 3 vols. Kirk: Supplement to Allibone, 2 vols. [Pg 6] [Pg 7] [1] [Pg 8] Stedman: Poets of America. Stedman and Hutchinson: Library of American Literature, 11 vols. Poe: Literati of New York. Griswold: Poets and Poetry of America. Prose Writers of America. Female Poets of America. Hart: American Literature, Eldredge Bros., Phila. Davidson: Living Writers of the South, (1869). Miss Rutherford: American Authors, Franklin Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1863. Southern Quarterly Review, 1842-1855. De Bow’s Commercial Review. The Land We Love, 1865-1869. Southern Review, and Eclectic Review, Baltimore. Southland Writers, by Ida Raymond (Mrs. Tardy). Women of the South in Literature, by Mary Forrest. Fortier: Louisiana Studies, F. F. Hansell, New Orleans. Ogden: Literature of the Virginias, Independent Publishing Company, Morgantown, West Virginia. C. W. Coleman, Jr.: Recent Movement in the Literature of the South, Harper’s Monthly, 1886, No. 74, p. 837. T. N. Page: Authorship in the South before the War, Lippincott’s Magazine, 1889, No. 44, p. 105. Professor C. W. Kent, University of Virginia: Outlook for Literature in the South. People’s Cyclopedia (1894). Table of Contents In Chronological Order. FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750. Page 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 [Pg 9] 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 [Pg 10] [Pg 11] 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 [Pg 12] 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 [Pg 13] 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 [Pg 14] [Pg 15] 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 Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery 345 Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830-1886 346 The Mocking-Bird (At Night) 348 Sonnet—October 349 A Dream of the South Wind 349 John Esten Cooke, 1830-1886 350 The Races in Virginia, 1765 351 Zebulon Baird Vance, 1830-1894 358 Changes Wrought by the War 360 The Country Gentlemen 360 The Negroes 362 Albert Pike, 1809-1891 365 To the Mocking-Bird 365 William Tappan Thompson, 1812-1882 367 Major Jones’s Christmas Present 368 James Barron Hope, 1827-1887 370 The Victory at Yorktown 371 Washington and Lee 372 James Wood Davidson, 1829- 373 The Beautiful and the Poetical 373 Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., 1831-1893 376 Salzburger Settlement in Georgia 376 Mary Virginia Terhune (“Marion Harland”) 379 Letter Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young Girl 381 Madam Washington at the Peace Ball 381 Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835- 383 A Learned and Interesting Conversation 384 Daniel Bedinger Lucas, 1836- 387 The Land Where We Were Dreaming 388 James Ryder Randall, 1839- 389 My Maryland 390 Abram Joseph Ryan, 1839-1886 392 William Gordon McCabe, 1841- 393 Dreaming in the Trenches 393 Sidney Lanier, 1842-1881 394 Song of the Chattahoochee 396 What is Music? 397 The Tide Rising in the Marshes 397 [Pg 16] James Lane Allen 398 Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795 399 Joel Chandler Harris, 1848- 401 The Tar-Baby 403 Robert Burns Wilson, 1850- 405 Fair Daughter of the Sun 406 Dedication—A Sonnet 407 “Christian Reid,” Frances C. Tiernan 407 Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, N. C. 409 Henry Woodfen Grady, 1851-1889 413 The South before the War 413 Master and Slave 413 Ante-bellum Civilization 416 Thomas Nelson Page, 1853- 419 Marse Chan’s Last Battle 421 Mary Noailles Murfree, (“Charles Egbert Craddock”) 423 The “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee 423 Danske Dandridge, 1859- 429 The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow 430 Amélie Rives Chanler, 1863- 431 Tanis 432 Grace King 437 La Grande Demoiselle 437 Waitman Barbe, 1864- 441 Sidney Lanier 442 Madison Cawein, 1865- 442 The Whippoorwill 443 Dixie 444 List of Authors and Works omitted for lack of space 445 INDEX. Page A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico Sarah A. Dorsey 338 Address in Congress, 1800, on the Death of Washington Henry Lee 124 A Dream of the South Wind Paul H. Hayne 349 Advice to His Nephew George Washington 76 A Health E. C. Pinkney 232 Alamo, Fall of the 192 A Learned and Interesting Conversation Augusta E. Wilson 384 Allen, James Lane 398 Anecdotes of Alexander H. Stephens 296, 297 An Honest Man George Washington 73 [Pg 17] [Pg 18] Ante-bellum Civilization Henry W. Grady 416 Arber, Professor, on John Smith’s Writings 35 A Sage Conversation A. B. Longstreet 182 Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina Christian Reid 409 Ascent of the James River, 1607 John Smith 42 Ashby John R. Thompson 318 Audubon, John James 153 Bacon, Nathaniel 330 Bagby, George William 332 Baldwin, Joseph G. 294 Barbe, Waitman 441 Battle of Noewee, 1776 John Drayton 129 Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 Sam Houston 193 Battle of the Blue Licks, Ky., 1782 400 Battle of Tohopeka, or Horse-Shoe Bend, Ala. 302 Bear Hunt David Crockett 175 Beauvoir 270, 273 Beautiful and the Poetical, The, Jas. Wood Davidson 373 Beauty is Holiness 395 Benton, Thomas Hart 158 “Be sure you are right,” David Crockett 178 Big John, on the Cherokees Bill Arp 327 Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith) 326 Bivouac of the Dead Theodore O’Hara 308 Blind Preacher William Wirt 132 Boone, Daniel 401 British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755 David Ramsay 105 Burning of Jamestown, 1676 St. George H. Tucker 330 Byrd, Evelyn 56 Byrd, William 54 Calhoun, John Caldwell 161 Calhoun and the Union 275 Calhoun, Death of 300 Capture of Fort Motte Henry Lee 120 Cause of the Texan War of Independence Sam Houston 190 Cawein, Madison 442 Changes Wrought by the War Z. B. Vance 360 Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives 431 Character of Washington James Madison 112 Cherokees, Big John on the Bill Arp 327 Clay, Henry 147 Closing Year, The George D. Prentice 228 Commerce and Wealth vs. War Hugh S. Legaré 217 Conscience George Washington 74 Cooke, Philip Pendleton 305 Cooke, John Esten 350 Corn-Shucking and Christmas Times 362 Country Gentleman in Virginia and His Wife John P. Kennedy 205 [Pg 19] Country Gentlemen 360 Cow-Boy’s Song 339 Craddock, Charles Egbert, (Miss M. N. Murfree) 423 Crockett, David 173 Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe 321 Dale, General Sam 302 Dandridge, Mrs. Danske 429 Daughter of Mendoza M. B. Lamar 223 Davidson, James Wood 373 Davis, Jefferson 269 Davis, Winnie 270 Davis, Mrs. Varina Jefferson 271 Davy Crockett’s Motto 178 Days of My Youth, or Resignation St. George Tucker 115 Death of Calhoun 300 Death of Lieutenant Herndon 249 Dedication Sonnet (to his Mother) Robert Burns Wilson 407 Deep-Sea Soundings M. F. Maury 247 Defence of Nullification John C. Calhoun 164 Demosthenes Hugh S. Legaré 219 DeSaussure, Judge, and Social Dining in Columbia 201 Discourses of Christ Thomas Jefferson 98 Dismal Swamp William Byrd 61 Dixie 444 Dixie and Yankee Doodle 319 Doom of Occonestoga Wm. Gilmore Simms 255 Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne 336 Drayton, William Henry 87 Drayton, John 127 Dreaming in the Trenches Wm. Gordon McCabe 393 Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826 Thomas H. Benton 159 Duke of Saxe-Weimar in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, 1825 Hugh S. Legaré 221 Duties of a Judge John Marshall 118 Duty Robert E. Lee 266 England and America, Relations between J. L. M. Curry 322 English Katie Henry Timrod 344 Ennui 101 Establishment of the University of Virginia George Tucker 143 Fairbanks, George Rainsford 311 Fair Daughter of the Sun Robert Burns Wilson 406 Farewell Address to the American People, 1796 George Washington 77 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 Jefferson Davis 274 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 Robert Toombs 286 Father of His Country Henry Lee 124 First Indian Baptism in America Francis L. Hawks 225 “First in War, first in Peace” 124 [Pg 20] [Pg 21] Five Demands of the South 286 Florence Vane Philip Pendleton Cooke 305 Fort King, Florida 311 Fort Motte, Capture of Henry Lee 120 Freedom of Religious Opinion Thomas Jefferson 98 Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur 235 George the Third’s Abdication of Power in America William Henry Drayton 89 Gladstone’s Opinion of the United States 322 Goliad, Massacre at 192 Grady, Henry Woodfen 413 Grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell 411 Gulf Stream M. F. Maury 246 Hampton at the Battle of Noewee, South Carolina, 1776 130 Happiness Edgar Allan Poe 281 Harland, Marion (Mrs. M. V. Terhune) 379 “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee, The Charles Egbert Craddock 423 Harper’s Ferry, Scenery at 95 Harris, Joel Chandler 401 Harvest Home of the Indians John Lawson 53 Hatchet Story Mason L. Weems 126 Hawks, Francis Lister 224 Hayne, Robert Young 185 Hayne, Paul Hamilton 346 Hayne, William Hamilton 346 Helen, To Edgar Allan Poe 279 Henry, Patrick 82 Hermitage, General Jackson at The 271 Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon M. F. Maury 249 Hope, James Barron 370 Horse-Shoe Bend, Battle of 302 Houston, Sam 189 How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men John P. Kennedy 210 How Ruby Played George William Bagby 332 How to Answer Calumny George Washington 74 How to Deal with the Indians Sam Houston 196 Human Virtue R. E. Lee 266 Humming-Bird, The J. J. Audubon 157 Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery Henry Timrod 345 “If This Be Treason—” Patrick Henry 84 “I’ll HAUNT you,” 317 Indian Doom of Excommunication 255 Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 279 Jackson, General, at Home 271 Jamestown, Burning of, 1676 St. George H. Tucker 330 [Pg 22] James Waddell, the Blind Preacher William Wirt 132 Jefferson, Thomas 91 Jefferson’s Last Letter, June 24, 1826 Thomas Jefferson 101 Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life George Tucker 142 Jefferson’s Religious Opinions at Twenty Thomas Jefferson 94 John Hook, Patrick Henry against William Wirt 135 Johnston, Richard Malcolm 314 Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr. 376 Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing George William Bagby 332 Kennedy, John Pendleton 204 Key, Francis Scott 151 King, Grace 437 La Fayette, Madison’s Opinion of James Madison 110 La Grande Demoiselle Grace King 437 Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte 223 Land Where We Were Dreaming, The D. B. Lucas 388 Lanier, Sidney 394 Lanier, To Sidney Waitman Barbe 442 La Rabida 291 Last Letter of Jefferson, June 24, 1826 Thomas Jefferson 101 Laurens, Henry 67 Laurens, John, the “Bayard of the Revolution” 67 Laws of Government A. H. Stephens 297 Lawson, John 48 Lee, Henry 119 Lee, Robert Edward 265 Lee’s Last Order R. E. Lee 266 Lee’s Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College R. E. Lee 268 Legaré, Hugh Swinton 217 Letter to Martha Jefferson Thomas Jefferson 100 Le Vert, Madame Octavia Walton 288 Life Ever Seems—Sonnet Henry Timrod 344 Life of the President of the United States Jefferson Davis 272 Literary Society in Columbia in 1825 Wm. C. Preston 201 Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin 180 Lost Colony of Roanoke F. L. Hawks 226 Louisiana in 1750-’70 C. E. A. Gayarré 236 Lucas, Daniel Bedinger 387 Madam Washington at the Peace Ball Marion Harland 381 Madison, James 109 Madison, Mrs. Dolly 110 Madison’s Opinion of La Fayette James Madison 110 Magnolia Cemetery, Hymn for Dedication Henry Timrod 345 Major Jones’s Christmas Present W. T. Thompson 368 Marion Harland, (Mrs. M. V. Terhune) 379 Marion, Sumpter and David Ramsay 107 Marion, the “Swamp-Fox” Wm. Gilmore Simms 262 [Pg 23] [Pg 24] Marquis de Vaudreuil, the “Great Marquis” 237 Marse Chan’s Last Battle Thomas Nelson Page 421 “Marseillaise of the Confederacy” 389 Marshall, John 116 Maryland, My Maryland 390 Mary Washington When a Girl Marion Harland 381 Mary Washington’s Monument Marion Harland 379 Master and Slave 413 Maury, Matthew Fontaine 243 Maxims of Jefferson 94 McCabe, William Gordon 393 M’Cord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah 291 M’Cord, D. J. 201, 291 Meek, Alexander Beaufort 301 Military Dinner Party George Washington 76 Military Insubordination Henry Clay 148 “Millions for Defence” 116 Mitchell’s Grave, Mt. Mitchell, N. C. 411 Mocking-Bird, The J. J. Audubon 155 Mocking-Bird (At Night) Paul H. Hayne 348 Mocking-Bird, To The Albert Pike 365 Mocking-Bird and Nightingale Compared 100 Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery R. M. Johnston 315 Murfree, Mary Noailles, (Charles Egbert Craddock) 423 Music in Camp John R. Thompson 319 My Life Is Like the Summer Rose R. H. Wilde 179 My Maryland James R. Randall 390 Naming of Tallahassee, The 288 Natural Bridge of Virginia 97 Ned Brace at Church A. B. Longstreet 180 No Geographical Lines in Patriotism Henry Clay 148 North Carolina in 1700-1708 John Lawson 49 Not Bound by State Lines Patrick Henry 84 Nullification, Defence of John C. Calhoun 164 Object-Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism John Drayton 128 Occonestoga, Doom of Wm. Gilmore Simms 255 October—A Sonnet Paul H. Hayne 349 Official Patronage John C. Calhoun 167 O’Hara, Theodore 308 Old Church at Jamestown 39, 331 On a Bear Hunt David Crockett 175 Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles George R. Fairbanks 311, 312 Our Right to Those Countries John Smith 38 Page, John, Letter to 94 Page, Thomas Nelson 419 Paragraphs George D. Prentice 231 Partisan Leader N. Beverley Tucker 168 [Pg 25]