Chapter II: 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_ 263

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 263

MY COUNTRY _Samuel F. Smith_ 265

THE AMERICAN FLAG _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 266

SONG OF MARION'S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 267

THE OLD CONTINENTALS _Guy Humphreys McMaster_ 269

THE SWORD OF BUNKER HILL _Wm. Ross Wallace_ 271

LIBERTY TREE _Thomas Paine_ 272

THE RISING IN 1776 _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 274

AMERICA _Bayard Taylor_ 278

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY _Francis M. Finch_ 279

ABRAHAM LINCOLN _James Russell Lowell_ 281

THE FLAG GOES BY _Henry Holcomb Bennett_ 284

THE SHIP OF STATE _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 285

THE NAME OF OLD GLORY _James Whitcomb Riley_ 286

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgments for permission to use copyrighted and other valuable material in this volume are hereby tendered to authors and publishers as follows:

To President Woodrow Wilson for his three addresses "America First," "The Meaning of the Flag," and "Neutrality Proclamation."

To Secretary Franklin K. Lane for his speech on "The Makers of the Flag."

To William Jennings Bryan and his publishers, Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York and London, for extracts from his address on "The Patriotism of Peace."

To Archbishop Ireland for extracts from his address on "The Duty and Value of Patriotism."

To George L. Schuman and Company, publishers of _Modern Eloquence_, Chicago, for the following extracts and addresses: "Our Country," by William McKinley; "Our Reunited Country," by Clark Howell; "The Blue and the Gray," by Henry Cabot Lodge; "A Reminiscence of Gettysburg," by John B. Gordon; "The New South," by Henry W. Grady; and "The Hollander as an American," by Theodore Roosevelt.

To A. C. Butters for the address on "Washington," by John W. Daniel, from _Modern Eloquence_ published by George L. Schuman and Company.

To Henry Watterson, Louisville, Kentucky, for the extracts from his lecture on Abraham Lincoln.

To E. Benjamin Andrews and to his publishers, Fords, Howard and Hulbert, for the extracts from his lecture on Robert E. Lee.

To J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, for the poem by Thomas Buchanan Read, "The Rising in 1776."

To Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, for the poem by Henry van Dyke, "America for Me," and also for the extract from the poem "Wanted," by J. G. Holland.

To The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, for the poem by James Whitcomb Riley, "The Name of Old Glory."

To Henry Holcomb Bennett for his poem entitled, "The Flag Goes By."

To Christopher Sower Company, Philadelphia, for the poem by Edward Brooks, entitled "Be a Woman."

The selections from the poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Bayard Taylor are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of the works of those authors.

The thanks of the author are also extended to Nelson Warner, Katherine M. Cook, Mrs. L. R. Caldwell, Belvia Cuzzort, W. R. Hood, and Dr. Stephen B. Weeks of the Bureau of Education, for valuable assistance in the compilation of this work.

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