A LIBRARY OF

AMERICAN LITERATURE

FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT

TO THE PRESENT TIME

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND

ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON

IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. VII

NEW-YORK
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY

1889

COPYRIGHT, 1889,

BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.

(All rights reserved.)

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

Literature of the Republic. Part H.-Continued.

DELIA BACON.

Her Initiation of the Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy

John WILLIAM DRAPER.

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Bexson John LOSSING.

Old-Time Life in Albany

JOHN CHARLES FRÉMONT.

The First Exploration of the Great Salt Lake

On Recrossing the Rocky Mountains in Winter after Many Years

NOTED SAYINGS.

From “The Creole Village.”-A Vow, in “ The Liberator," Vol. I., No. 1. 1831. -

Væ Victis! U. S. Senate, January, 1832.—The Upper Ten.--From a Speech in

the U. S. Senate, 26 January, 1830.--Paraphrase on Webster. Anti-Slavery

Convention, Boston, 1850.- From a Letter to the (Worcester) Whig Conven-

tion, 1 October, 1855.- Motto of a Compromise Ticket.-A Definition.-From a

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee. 1856.–A Famous Book Title.-A South-

ern Utterance. U. 8. Senate, March, 1858.-On Slaves and Mudsills. From the

Same Speech.- A Jest from Bohemia.—The “Autocrat’s” Credo. 1858. -- An

Official Telegram. 29 January, 1861.—“Contrabands," at Fortress Monroe, Va.,

24 May, 1861.–At the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), 21 July, 1861.–At the

Battle of Seven Pines, 31 May, 1862.-From an Address on Boston Common in

1862.-General and Statesman.-Jurist and Financier.

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