Southern Literature From 1579-1895 / A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms / for the use of schools and the general reader

by Louise Manly

INDEX.

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A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico	Sarah A. Dorsey	[338]
Address in Congress, 1800, on the Death of Washington	Henry Lee	[124]
A Dream of the South Wind	Paul H. Hayne	[349]
Advice to His Nephew	George Washington	[76]
A Health	E. C. Pinkney	[232]
Alamo, Fall of the		[192]
A Learned and Interesting Conversation	Augusta E. Wilson	[384]
Allen, James Lane		[398]
Anecdotes of Alexander H. Stephens		[296], [297]
An Honest Man	George Washington	[73]
Ante-bellum Civilization	Henry W. Grady	[416]
Arber, Professor, on John Smith’s Writings		[35]
A Sage Conversation	A. B. Longstreet	[182]
Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina	Christian Reid	[409]
Ascent of the James River, 1607	John Smith	[42]
Ashby	John R. Thompson	[318]
Audubon, John James		[153]
Bacon, Nathaniel		[330]
Bagby, George William		[332]
Baldwin, Joseph G.		[294]
Barbe, Waitman		[441]
Battle of Noewee, 1776	John Drayton	[129]
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836	Sam Houston	[193]
Battle of the Blue Licks, Ky., 1782		[400]
Battle of Tohopeka, or Horse-Shoe Bend, Ala.		[302]
Bear Hunt	David Crockett	[175]
Beauvoir		[270], [273]
Beautiful and the Poetical, The,	Jas. Wood Davidson	[373]
Beauty is Holiness		[395]
Benton, Thomas Hart		[158]
“Be sure you are right,”	David Crockett	[178]
Big John, on the Cherokees	Bill Arp	[327]
Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith)		[326]
Bivouac of the Dead	Theodore O’Hara	[308]
Blind Preacher	William Wirt	[132]
Boone, Daniel		[401]
British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755	David Ramsay	[105]
Burning of Jamestown, 1676	St. George H. Tucker	[330]
Byrd, Evelyn		[56]
Byrd, William		[54]
Calhoun, John Caldwell		[161]
Calhoun and the Union		[275]
Calhoun, Death of		[300]
Capture of Fort Motte	Henry Lee	[120]
Cause of the Texan War of Independence	Sam Houston	[190]
Cawein, Madison		[442]
Changes Wrought by the War	Z. B. Vance	[360]
Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives		[431]
Character of Washington	James Madison	[112]
Cherokees, Big John on the	Bill Arp	[327]
Clay, Henry		[147]
Closing Year, The	George D. Prentice	[228]
Commerce and Wealth vs. War	Hugh S. Legaré	[217]
Conscience	George Washington	[74]
Cooke, Philip Pendleton		[305]
Cooke, John Esten		[350]
Corn-Shucking and Christmas Times		[362]
Country Gentleman in Virginia and His Wife	John P. Kennedy	[205]
Country Gentlemen		[360]
Cow-Boy’s Song		[339]
Craddock, Charles Egbert, (Miss M. N. Murfree)		[423]
Crockett, David		[173]
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe		[321]
Dale, General Sam		[302]
Dandridge, Mrs. Danske		[429]
Daughter of Mendoza	M. B. Lamar	[223]
Davidson, James Wood		[373]
Davis, Jefferson		[269]
Davis, Winnie		[270]
Davis, Mrs. Varina Jefferson		[271]
Davy Crockett’s Motto		[178]
Days of My Youth, or Resignation	St. George Tucker	[115]
Death of Calhoun		[300]
Death of Lieutenant Herndon		[249]
Dedication Sonnet (to his Mother)	Robert Burns Wilson	[407]
Deep-Sea Soundings	M. F. Maury	[247]
Defence of Nullification	John C. Calhoun	[164]
Demosthenes	Hugh S. Legaré	[219]
DeSaussure, Judge, and Social Dining in Columbia		[201]
Discourses of Christ	Thomas Jefferson	[98]
Dismal Swamp	William Byrd	[61]
Dixie		[444]
Dixie and Yankee Doodle		[319]
Doom of Occonestoga	Wm. Gilmore Simms	[255]
Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne		[336]
Drayton, William Henry		[87]
Drayton, John		[127]
Dreaming in the Trenches	Wm. Gordon McCabe	[393]
Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826	Thomas H. Benton	[159]
Duke of Saxe-Weimar in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, 1825	Hugh S. Legaré	[221]
Duties of a Judge	John Marshall	[118]
Duty	Robert E. Lee	[266]
England and America, Relations between	J. L. M. Curry	[322]
English Katie	Henry Timrod	[344]
Ennui		[101]
Establishment of the University of Virginia	George Tucker	[143]
Fairbanks, George Rainsford		[311]
Fair Daughter of the Sun	Robert Burns Wilson	[406]
Farewell Address to the American People, 1796	George Washington	[77]
Farewell to the Senate, 1861	Jefferson Davis	[274]
Farewell to the Senate, 1861	Robert Toombs	[286]
Father of His Country	Henry Lee	[124]
First Indian Baptism in America	Francis L. Hawks	[225]
“First in War, first in Peace”		[124]
Five Demands of the South		[286]
Florence Vane	Philip Pendleton Cooke	[305]
Fort King, Florida		[311]
Fort Motte, Capture of	Henry Lee	[120]
Freedom of Religious Opinion	Thomas Jefferson	[98]
Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur		[235]
George the Third’s Abdication of Power in America	William Henry Drayton	[89]
Gladstone’s Opinion of the United States		[322]
Goliad, Massacre at		[192]
Grady, Henry Woodfen		[413]
Grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell		[411]
Gulf Stream	M. F. Maury	[246]
Hampton at the Battle of Noewee, South Carolina, 1776		[130]
Happiness	Edgar Allan Poe	[281]
Harland, Marion (Mrs. M. V. Terhune)		[379]
“Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee, The	Charles Egbert Craddock	[423]
Harper’s Ferry, Scenery at		[95]
Harris, Joel Chandler		[401]
Harvest Home of the Indians	John Lawson	[53]
Hatchet Story	Mason L. Weems	[126]
Hawks, Francis Lister		[224]
Hayne, Robert Young		[185]
Hayne, Paul Hamilton		[346]
Hayne, William Hamilton		[346]
Helen, To	Edgar Allan Poe	[279]
Henry, Patrick		[82]
Hermitage, General Jackson at The		[271]
Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon	M. F. Maury	[249]
Hope, James Barron		[370]
Horse-Shoe Bend, Battle of		[302]
Houston, Sam		[189]
How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men	John P. Kennedy	[210]
How Ruby Played	George William Bagby	[332]
How to Answer Calumny	George Washington	[74]
How to Deal with the Indians	Sam Houston	[196]
Human Virtue	R. E. Lee	[266]
Humming-Bird, The	J. J. Audubon	[157]
Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery	Henry Timrod	[345]
“If This Be Treason—”	Patrick Henry	[84]
“I’ll HAUNT you,”		[317]
Indian Doom of Excommunication		[255]
Israfel	Edgar Allan Poe	[279]
Jackson, General, at Home		[271]
Jamestown, Burning of, 1676	St. George H. Tucker	[330]
James Waddell, the Blind Preacher	William Wirt	[132]
Jefferson, Thomas		[91]
Jefferson’s Last Letter, June 24, 1826	Thomas Jefferson	[101]
Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life	George Tucker	[142]
Jefferson’s Religious Opinions at Twenty	Thomas Jefferson	[94]
John Hook, Patrick Henry against	William Wirt	[135]
Johnston, Richard Malcolm		[314]
Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr.		[376]
Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing	George William Bagby	[332]
Kennedy, John Pendleton		[204]
Key, Francis Scott		[151]
King, Grace		[437]
La Fayette, Madison’s Opinion of	James Madison	[110]
La Grande Demoiselle	Grace King	[437]
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte		[223]
Land Where We Were Dreaming, The	D. B. Lucas	[388]
Lanier, Sidney		[394]
Lanier, To Sidney	Waitman Barbe	[442]
La Rabida		[291]
Last Letter of Jefferson, June 24, 1826	Thomas Jefferson	[101]
Laurens, Henry		[67]
Laurens, John, the “Bayard of the Revolution”		[67]
Laws of Government	A. H. Stephens	[297]
Lawson, John		[48]
Lee, Henry		[119]
Lee, Robert Edward		[265]
Lee’s Last Order	R. E. Lee	[266]
Lee’s Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College	R. E. Lee	[268]
Legaré, Hugh Swinton		[217]
Letter to Martha Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson	[100]
Le Vert, Madame Octavia Walton		[288]
Life Ever Seems—Sonnet	Henry Timrod	[344]
Life of the President of the United States	Jefferson Davis	[272]
Literary Society in Columbia in 1825	Wm. C. Preston	[201]
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin		[180]
Lost Colony of Roanoke	F. L. Hawks	[226]
Louisiana in 1750-’70	C. E. A. Gayarré	[236]
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger		[387]
Madam Washington at the Peace Ball	Marion Harland	[381]
Madison, James		[109]
Madison, Mrs. Dolly		[110]
Madison’s Opinion of La Fayette	James Madison	[110]
Magnolia Cemetery, Hymn for Dedication	Henry Timrod	[345]
Major Jones’s Christmas Present	W. T. Thompson	[368]
Marion Harland, (Mrs. M. V. Terhune)		[379]
Marion, Sumpter and	David Ramsay	[107]
Marion, the “Swamp-Fox”	Wm. Gilmore Simms	[262]
Marquis de Vaudreuil, the “Great Marquis”		[237]
Marse Chan’s Last Battle	Thomas Nelson Page	[421]
“Marseillaise of the Confederacy”		[389]
Marshall, John		[116]
Maryland, My Maryland		[390]
Mary Washington When a Girl	Marion Harland	[381]
Mary Washington’s Monument	Marion Harland	[379]
Master and Slave		[413]
Maury, Matthew Fontaine		[243]
Maxims of Jefferson		[94]
McCabe, William Gordon		[393]
M’Cord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah		[291]
M’Cord, D. J.		[201], [291]
Meek, Alexander Beaufort		[301]
Military Dinner Party	George Washington	[76]
Military Insubordination	Henry Clay	[148]
“Millions for Defence”		[116]
Mitchell’s Grave, Mt. Mitchell, N. C.		[411]
Mocking-Bird, The	J. J. Audubon	[155]
Mocking-Bird (At Night)	Paul H. Hayne	[348]
Mocking-Bird, To The	Albert Pike	[365]
Mocking-Bird and Nightingale Compared		[100]
Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery	R. M. Johnston	[315]
Murfree, Mary Noailles, (Charles Egbert Craddock)		[423]
Music in Camp	John R. Thompson	[319]
My Life Is Like the Summer Rose	R. H. Wilde	[179]
My Maryland	James R. Randall	[390]
Naming of Tallahassee, The		[288]
Natural Bridge of Virginia		[97]
Ned Brace at Church	A. B. Longstreet	[180]
No Geographical Lines in Patriotism	Henry Clay	[148]
North Carolina in 1700-1708	John Lawson	[49]
Not Bound by State Lines	Patrick Henry	[84]
Nullification, Defence of	John C. Calhoun	[164]
Object-Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism	John Drayton	[128]
Occonestoga, Doom of	Wm. Gilmore Simms	[255]
October—A Sonnet	Paul H. Hayne	[349]
Official Patronage	John C. Calhoun	[167]
O’Hara, Theodore		[308]
Old Church at Jamestown		[39], [331]
On a Bear Hunt	David Crockett	[175]
Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles	George R. Fairbanks	[311], [312]
Our Right to Those Countries	John Smith	[38]
Page, John, Letter to		[94]
Page, Thomas Nelson		[419]
Paragraphs	George D. Prentice	[231]
Partisan Leader	N. Beverley Tucker	[168]
Party Spirit	George Washington	[79]
Patrick Henry against John Hook	William Wirt	[135]
Patrick Henry’s Famous Revolution Speech	Patrick Henry	[84]
Patriot in the Tower	Henry Laurens	[68]
Payne, John Howard, among the Cherokees		[327]
Pike, Albert		[365]
Pinkney, Edward Coate		[231]
Plea for a Republic	James Madison	[111]
Pocahontas,—Rescue of John Smith	John Smith	[35]
Poe, Edgar Allan		[276]
Poet’s Vision.—A Sonnet	William Gilmore Simms	[255]
Political Patronage	John C. Calhoun	[167]
Power of the Supreme Court	John Marshall	[117]
Powhatan		[35]
Preference for Country Life	George Tucker	[142]
Prentice, George Denison		[228]
Preston, Mrs. Margaret Junkin		[324]
Preston, William Campbell		[199]
Prologue to Arms and the Man	James Barren Hope	[371]
Prologue to Autobiography	David Crockett	[173]
Races in Virginia, 1765	John Esten Cooke	[351]
Ramsay, David		[103]
Randall, James Ryder		[389]
Randolph, John, of Roanoke		[137]
Raven, The	Edgar Allan Poe	[281]
Red Eagle, or Weatherford	A. B. Meek	[302]
Red Eagle and General Jackson		[304]
Reid, Christian, (Frances C. Fisher, Mrs. Tiernan)		[407]
Relations Between England and America	J. L. M. Curry	[322]
Religion and Morality	George Washington	[81]
Religious Freedom	Thomas Jefferson	[98]
“Remember the Alamo!”		[195]
Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas	John Smith	[35]
Resignation: or, Days of My Youth	St. George Tucker	[115]
Revision of the State Constitution	John Randolph	[138]
Revolutionary Object-Lesson	John Drayton	[128]
Revolution Speech, 1775	Patrick Henry	[84]
Rives, Amélie (Mrs. Chanler)		[431]
“Rope of sand”		[186]
Rubinstein’s Playing	George William Bagby	[332]
Ryan, Abram Joseph, (Father Ryan)		[392]
Sage Conversation, A	A. B. Longstreet	[182]
Salzburger Settlement in Georgia, 1734	C. C. Jones, Jr.	[376]
Sang-Digger,[2] The	Amélie Rives	[432]
Savannah in 1735		[378]
Scenery at Harper’s Ferry and at the Natural Bridge	Thomas Jefferson	[95]
Selecting the Site of Richmond and of Petersburg, 1733	William Byrd	[58]
Seminole War		[313]
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie, 1776	David Ramsay	[106]
Sergeant Jasper at Savannah, 1779		[107]
Sidney Lanier, To	Waitman Barbe	[442]
Siege of Fort Moultrie	David Ramsay	[106]
Simms, William Gilmore		[252]
Sketch in the Senate, February 5, 1850	A. H. Stephens	[298]
Slavery, Remark on	Patrick Henry	[84]
Slave, Master and		[413]
Smith, Charles Henry (Bill Arp)		[326]
Smith, John		[33]
Smith, John, Writings of		[35]
Song of the Chattahoochee	Sidney Lanier	[396]
Sonnet: Dedication	R. B. Wilson	[407]
Song: We Break the Glass	E. C. Pinkney	[233]
Sonnet: Life ever seems	Henry Timrod	[344]
Sonnet: October	Paul H. Hayne	[349]
Sonnet: Poet’s Vision	William Gilmore Simms	[255]
South Before the War, The	Henry W. Grady	[413]
Southern Literary Messenger		[277], [317], [332]
Southern “Mammy” and the Children		[363]
Speaking of Clay in the Senate, 1850, The		[298]
Spelling and Grammar (Prologue to Autobiography)	David Crockett	[173]
Spirit and Wood-Sparrow, The	Danske Dandridge	[430]
Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795	James Lane Allen	[399]
Spotswood, Ex-Gov., and his Home in 1732		[58]
Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	[151]
State Sovereignty and Liberty	Robert Y. Hayne	[185]
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton		[296]
Stonewall Jackson’s Last Words		[324]
Storm Off the Bermudas	Wm. Strachey	[45]
Strachey, William		[45]
Sugar-Cane: Introduction into the United States		[236]
Sumpter and Marion	David Ramsay	[107]
“Swamp-Fox,” The		[262]
System of Our Government	John C. Calhoun	[164]
Tanis	Amélie Rives	[432]
Tar-Baby, The	Joel Chandler Harris	[403]
Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia (Marion Harland)		[379]
Texas Prairie and Cow-Boy’s Song		[339]
The Land Where We Were Dreaming	D. B. Lucas	[388]
The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow	Danske Dandridge	[430]
The South Before the War	Henry W. Grady	[413]
Thompson, John Reuben,		[317]
Tide Rising in the Marshes	Sidney Lanier	[397]
Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid)		[407]
Timrod, Henry		[341]
To Be Right Above All	Henry Clay	[148]
To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855	Madame Le Vert	[289]
To Helen	Edgar Allan Poe	[279]
Tohopeka, Battle of		[302]
Toombs, Robert		[284]
To the Mocking-Bird	Albert Pike	[365]
Tree of the Dead	C. E. A. Gayarré	[240]
Trip to Kentucky at Seven Years of Age	Jefferson Davis	[271]
True Courage	A. H. Stephens	[301]
Tucker, St. George		[113]
Tucker, George		[140]
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley		[167]
Tucker, St. George H.		[329]
Tuscarora Indians and Their Legend of a Christ	William Byrd	[65]
Under the Shade of the Trees	Margaret J. Preston	[324]
Union and Liberty	George Washington	[77]
University of Virginia, Establishment of	George Tucker	[143]
Vance, Zebulon Baird		[358]
Victory at Yorktown, 1781	James Barren Hope	[371]
Virginia Dare	F. L. Hawks	[226]
Virginian or American?	Patrick Henry	[84]
Virginians in a New Country	Joseph G. Baldwin	[294]
Visit to Ex-Governor Spotswood, 1732	William Byrd	[58]
Visit to the Hermitage		[271]
War and Peace	John C. Calhoun	[164]
Washington, George		[71]
Washington and the Hatchet		[126]
Washington’s Advice to His Nephew	George Washington	[76]
Washington, Character of	James Madison	[112]
Washington’s Farewell to the American People, 1796	George Washington	[77]
Washington and Lee	James Barren Hope	[372]
Washington’s Mother When a Girl		[381]
Washington’s Mother at the Peace Ball		[381]
Washington’s Speech in Congress on his Appointment as Commander-in-Chief, 1775	George Washington	[74]
Washington, Memorial Address in Congress, 1800, by Henry Lee		[124]
Weatherford, or Red Eagle		[302]
We Break the Glass,—Song	E. C. Pinkney	[233]
Weems, Mason Locke		[126]
What is Music?	Sidney Lanier	[397]
Whippoorwill, The	Madison Cawein	[443]
Wilde, Richard Henry		[178]
Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Evans		[383]
Wilson, Robert Burns		[405]
Wirt, William		[131]
Wise Choice	John C. Calhoun	[166]
Woman’s Duty	Louisa S. M’Cord	[292]

FOOTNOTE:

[2] Ginseng-Digger.

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