CONTENTS

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Preface 7
Note 9
Introduction 11
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