Southern Literature From 1579-1895 by Louise Manly

 

Southern Literature

From 1579-1895.

A Comprehensive Review, with Copious Extracts
and Criticisms

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND THE GENERAL READER

Containing an Appendix with a Full List of Southern Authors

BY

LOUISE MANLY

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ILLUSTRATED
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RICHMOND, VA.
B. F. Johnson Publishing Company
1900

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Copyright, 1895, by
Louise Manly.
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Table of Contents

In Chronological Order.

FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750.

  
John Smith, 1579-1631    33
Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas    35
Our Right to Those Countries    38
Ascent of the River James, 1607    42
William Strachey, in America 1609-12    45
A Storm Off the Bermudas    45
John Lawson, in America 1700-08    48
North Carolina in 1700-08    49
Harvest Home of the Indians    53
William Byrd, 1674-1744    54
Selecting the Site of Richmond and Petersburg, 1733    58
A Visit to Ex-Governor Spotswood, 1732    58
Dismal Swamp, 1728    61
The Tuscarora Indians and Their Legend of a Christ, 1729    65

SECOND PERIOD ... 1750-1800.

Henry Laurens, 1724-1792    67
A Patriot in the Tower    68
George Washington, 1732-1799    71
An Honest Man    73
[Pg 10]How to Answer Calumny    74
Conscience    74
On his Appointment as Commander-in-Chief, 1775    74
A Military Dinner-Party    76
Advice to a Favorite Nephew    76
Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796    77
Union and Liberty    77
Party Spirit    79
Religion and Morality    81
Patrick Henry, 1736-1799    82
Remark on Slavery, 1788    84
Not Bound by State Lines    84
If This Be Treason, 1765    84
The Famous Revolution Speech, 1775    84
William Henry Drayton, 1742-1779    87
George III.’s Abdication of Power in America    89
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826    91
Political Maxims    94
Religious Opinions at the Age of Twenty    94
Scenery at Harper’s Ferry, and at the Natural Bridge    95
On Freedom of Religious Opinion    98
On the Discourses of Christ    98
Religious Freedom (the Act of 1786)    98
Letter to his Daughter    100
Jefferson’s Last Letter, 1826    101
David Ramsay, 1749-1815    103
British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755    105
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie, 28 June, 1776    106
Sumpter and Marion    107
James Madison, 1751-1836    109
Opinion of Lafayette    110
Plea for a Republic    111
Character of Washington    112
St. George Tucker, 1752-1828    113
Resignation, or Days of My Youth    115
[Pg 11]John Marshall, 1755-1835    116
Power of the Supreme Court    117
The Duties of a Judge    118
Henry Lee, 1756-1818    119
Capture of Fort Motte by Lee and Marion, 1780    120
The Father of His Country    124
Mason Locke Weems, 1760-1825    126
The Hatchet Story    126
John Drayton, 1766-1822    127
A Revolutionary Object Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism 1775    128
The Battle of Noewee, 1776    129
William Wirt, 1772-1834    131
The Blind Preacher (James Waddell)    132
Mr. Henry against John Hook    135
John Randolph, 1773-1833    137
Revision of the State Constitution, 1829    138
George Tucker, 1775-1861    140
Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life    142
Establishment of the University of Virginia.    143

THIRD PERIOD ... 1800-1850.

Henry Clay, 1777-1852    147
To Be Right above All    148
No Geographical Lines in Patriotism    148
Military Insubordination    148
Francis Scott Key, 1780-1843    151
The Star-Spangled Banner    151
John James Audubon, 1780-1851    153
The Mocking-Bird    155
The Humming-Bird    157
[Pg 12]Thomas Hart Benton, 1782-1858    158
The Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826    159
John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850    161
War and Peace    164
System of Our Government    164
Defence of Nullification    164
The Wise Choice    166
Official Patronage    167
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1784-1851    167
The Partisan Leader    168
David Crockett, 1786-1836    173
Spelling and Grammar: Prologue To His Autobiography    173
On a Bear-hunt    175
Motto: Be Sure You Are Right    178
Richard Henry Wilde, 1789-1847    178
My Life Is Like the Summer Rose    179
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1790-1870    180
Ned Brace at Church    180
A Sage Conversation    182
Robert Young Hayne, 1791-1839    185
State Sovereignty and Liberty    185
Sam Houston, 1793-1863    189
Cause of the Texan War of Independence    190
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836    193
How To Deal With the Indians    196
William Campbell Preston, 1794-1860    199
Literary Society in Columbia, S. C., 1825    201
John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795-1870    204
A Country Gentleman in Virginia    205
His Wife    207
How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men    210
Hugh Swinton Legaré, 1797-1843    217
Commerce and Wealth vs. War    217
[Pg 13]Demosthenes’ Courage    219
A Duke’s Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, in 1825    221
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, 1798-1859    223
The Daughter of Mendoza    223
Francis Lister Hawks, 1798-1866    224
The First Indian Baptism in America    225
Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America    226
The Lost Colony of Roanoke    226
George Denison Prentice, 1802-1870    228
The Closing Year    228
Paragraphs    231
Edward Coate Pinkney, 1802-1828    231
A Health    232
Song: We Break the Glass    233
Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarré, 1805-1895    235
Louisiana in 1750-1770    236
The Tree of the Dead    240
Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806-1873    243
The Gulf Stream    246
Deep-Sea Soundings    247
Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon    249
William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870    252
Sonnet—The Poet’s Vision    255
The Doom of Occonestoga    255
Marion, the “Swamp-Fox”    262
Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870    265
Duty—To His Son    266
Human Virtue—At the Surrender    266
His Last Order, 1865    266
Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College    268
Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889    269
Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to General Jackson    271
[Pg 14]Life of the President of the United States    272
Farewell to the Senate, 1861    274
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849    276
To Helen    279
Israfel    279
Happiness    281
The Raven    281
Robert Toombs, 1810-1885    284
Farewell to the Senate, 1861    286
Octavia Walton Le Vert, 1810-1877    288
To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855    289
Louisa Susannah M’Cord, 1810-1880    291
Woman’s Duty    292
Joseph G. Baldwin, 1811-1864    294
Virginians in a New Country    294
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812-1883    296
Laws of Government    297
Sketch in the Senate, 1850    298
True Courage    301
Alexander Beaufort Meek, 1814-1865    301
Red Eagle, or Weatherford    302
Philip Pendleton Cooke, 1816-1850    305
Florence Vane    305
Theodore O’Hara, 1820-1867    308
Bivouac of the Dead    308

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1895.

George Rainsford Fairbanks, 1820-    311
Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles    311
[Pg 15]Richard Malcolm Johnston, 1822-    314
Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery    315
John Reuben Thompson, 1823-1873    317
Ashby    318
Music in Camp    319
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 1825-    321
Relations between England and America    322
Margaret Junkin Preston, 1825-    324
The Shade of the Trees    324
Charles Henry Smith, (“Bill Arp”), 1826-    326
Big John, on the Cherokees    327
St. George H. Tucker, 1828-1863    329
Burning of Jamestown in 1676    330
George William Bagby, 1828-1883    332
Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing    332
Sarah Anne Dorsey, 1829-1879    336
A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866    338
Henry Timrod, 1829-1867    341
Sonnet—Life Ever Seems    344
English Katie    344
Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery    345
Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830-1886    346
The Mocking-Bird (At Night)    348
Sonnet—October    349
A Dream of the South Wind    349
John Esten Cooke, 1830-1886    350
The Races in Virginia, 1765    351
Zebulon Baird Vance, 1830-1894    358
Changes Wrought by the War    360
The Country Gentlemen    360
The Negroes    362
[Pg 16]Albert Pike, 1809-1891    365
To the Mocking-Bird    365
William Tappan Thompson, 1812-1882    367
Major Jones’s Christmas Present    368
James Barron Hope, 1827-1887    370
The Victory at Yorktown    371
Washington and Lee    372
James Wood Davidson, 1829-    373
The Beautiful and the Poetical    373
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., 1831-1893    376
Salzburger Settlement in Georgia    376
Mary Virginia Terhune (“Marion Harland”)    379
Letter Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young Girl    381
Madam Washington at the Peace Ball    381
Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835-    383
A Learned and Interesting Conversation    384
Daniel Bedinger Lucas, 1836-    387
The Land Where We Were Dreaming    388
James Ryder Randall, 1839-    389
My Maryland    390
Abram Joseph Ryan, 1839-1886    392
William Gordon McCabe, 1841-    393
Dreaming in the Trenches    393
Sidney Lanier, 1842-1881    394
Song of the Chattahoochee    396
What is Music?    397
The Tide Rising in the Marshes    397
James Lane Allen    398
Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795    399
[Pg 17]Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-    401
The Tar-Baby    403
Robert Burns Wilson, 1850-    405
Fair Daughter of the Sun    406
Dedication—A Sonnet    407
“Christian Reid,” Frances C. Tiernan    407
Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, N. C.    409
Henry Woodfen Grady, 1851-1889    413
The South before the War    413
Master and Slave    413
Ante-bellum Civilization    416
Thomas Nelson Page, 1853-    419
Marse Chan’s Last Battle    421
Mary Noailles Murfree, (“Charles Egbert Craddock”)    423
The “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee    423
Danske Dandridge, 1859-    429
The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow    430
Amélie Rives Chanler, 1863-    431
Tanis    432
Grace King    437
La Grande Demoiselle    437
Waitman Barbe, 1864-    441
Sidney Lanier    442
Madison Cawein, 1865-    442
The Whippoorwill    443
Dixie    444
List of Authors and Works omitted for lack of space    445  

 

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