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I
CELEBRATION
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOLIDAY _Anonymous_ 21
THE NATION’S BIRTHDAY _Mary E. Vandyne_ 22
HOW THE FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD BE CELEBRATED _Julia Ward Howe_ 24
II
SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE
ENGLAND AND AMERICA _James Bryce_ 39
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE NATION _Daniel Webster_ 40
THE FOURTH OF JULY _Charles Leonard Moore_ 42
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS _Anonymous_ 42
ENGLAND AND THE FOURTH OF JULY _W. T. Stead_ 46
SOME EARLY INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESSES 47
THE FOURTH OF JULY _Charles Sprague_ 53
OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY _A. H. Rice_ 54
AMERICA’S NATAL DAY _James Gillespie Blaine_ 55
CRISES OF NATIONS _Dr. Foss_ 56
THE FOURTH OF JULY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY _Phillips Brooks_ 56
III
BEFORE THE DAWN OF INDEPENDENCE
AMERICA RESENTS BRITISH DICTATION _Henry B. Carrington_ 61
SPEECH OF JAMES OTIS 62
INDEPENDENCE A SOLEMN DUTY 64
AN APPEAL FOR AMERICA _William Pitt_ 66
CONCILIATION OR WAR 69
“WAR IS ACTUALLY BEGUN” _Patrick Henry_ 72
EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE _Philip Freneau_ 76
IV
THE DECLARATION
THE ORIGIN OF THE DECLARATION _Sydney George Fisher_ 81
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _John D. Long_ 101
THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION _George Lippard_ 104
SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS _Daniel Webster_ 107
THE LIBERTY BELL _J. T. Headley_ 111
INDEPENDENCE BELL, PHILADELPHIA _Anonymous_ 112
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 115
INDEPENDENCE EXPLAINED _Samuel Adams_ 121
THE DIGNITY OF OUR NATION’S FOUNDERS _William T. Evarts_ 123
THE CHARACTER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _George Bancroft_ 125
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _Henry T. Randall_ 126
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _John Quincy Adams_ 127
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _Tudor Jenks_ 128
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE LIGHT
OF MODERN CRITICISM _Moses Coit Tyler_ 132
V
THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 157
THE SONG OF THE CANNON _Sam Walter Foss_ 158
PAUL REVERE’S RIDE _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 160
HYMN _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 164
A SONG FOR LEXINGTON _Robert Kelly Weeks_ 165
THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM _George Bancroft_ 166
THE VOLUNTEER _Elbridge Jefferson Cutler_ 168
TICONDEROGA _V. B. Wilson_ 169
WARREN’S ADDRESS _John Pierpont_ 171
“THE LONELY BUGLE GRIEVES” _Grenville Mellen_ 172
THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 173
THE MARYLAND BATTALION _John Williamson Palmer_ 175
THE BATTLE OF TRENTON _Anonymous_ 177
COLUMBIA _Timothy Dwight_ 178
THE FIGHTING PARSON _Henry Ames Blood_ 180
THE SARATOGA LESSON _George William Curtis_ 184
THE SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE _James Watts De Peyster_ 187
THE SARATOGA MONUMENT BEGUN _Horatio Seymour_ 187
MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH _William Collins_ 190
THE SOUTH IN THE REVOLUTION _Robert Young Hayne_ 193
THE SONG OF MARION’S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 195
OUR COUNTRY SAVED _James Russell Lowell_ 197
NEW ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA _Robert Charles Winthrop_ 199
VI
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
AMERICA _S. F. Smith_ 203
THE REPUBLIC _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 205
THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM _William Cullen Bryant_ 206
AMERICA _William Cullen Bryant_ 208
ODE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 210
AMERICA FIRST _Anonymous_ 212
LIBERTY FOR ALL _William Lloyd Garrison_ 213
HYMN _Anonymous_ 214
THE DAWNING FUTURE _William Preston Johnson_ 216
LIBERTY 216
FREEDOM 217
A RHAPSODY _Cassius Marcellus Clay_ 219
COLUMBIA _Frederick Lawrence Knowles_ 221
A RENAISSANCE OF PATRIOTISM _George J. Manson_ 222
CENTENNIAL POEMS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 230
WELCOME TO THE NATION _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 232
LIBERTY’S LATEST DAUGHTER _Bayard Taylor_ 233
“SCUM OF THE EARTH” _Robert Haven Schauffler_ 234
LIBERTY AND UNION ONE AND INSEPARABLE _Daniel Webster_ 238
ADDRESS TO LIBERTY _William Cowper_ 240
THE TORCH OF LIBERTY _Thomas Moore_ 241
HOROLOGE OF LIBERTY _Anonymous_ 242
THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC _George Bancroft_ 243
A NEW NATIONAL HYMN _Francis Marion Crawford_ 244
VII
FICTION
JIM’S AUNT _Frances Bent Dillingham_ 249
VIII
THE NEW FOURTH
OUR BARBAROUS FOURTH _Mrs. Isaac L. Rice_ 265
A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY _Henry Litchfield West_ 285
THE NEW INDEPENDENCE DAY
_Henry B. F. MacFarland and Richard B. Watrous_ 296
NEW FOURTHS FOR OLD _Mrs. Isaac L. Rice_ 299
AMERICANIZING THE FOURTH _Robert Haven Schauffler_ 307
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