AMERICAN LITERATURE

FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT

TO THE PRESENT TIME

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND

ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON

NEW EDITION, WITH 303 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

IN ELEVEN VOLUMES

VOL. VII.

NEW-YORK

WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN

COPYRIGHT, 1888,
BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1894,
BY WILLIAM EVARTS BENJAMIN.

(All rights reserved.)

PRESS OF
JENKINS & McCowan,

NEW YORK.

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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BENSON JOIN LOSSING.

Old-Time Life in Albany .

JOHN CHARLES FRÉVONT.

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) Wiig 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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