NEW YORK:
BEADLE AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
118 WILLIAM STREET.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
By BEADLE AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

Speaker, No. 2.


[CONTENTS.]

Page.
The Union and its Results,Edward Everett, [5]
Our Country's Future,Id. [7]
The Statesman's Labors,Id. [9]
True Immortality,Id. [11]
Let the Childless Weep,Metta Victoria Victor, [13]
Our Country's Greatest Glory,Bishop Whipple, [15]
The Union a Household,Id. [16]
Independence Bell,[17]
The Scholar's Dignity,George E. Pugh, [18]
The Cycles of Progress,Id. [21]
A Christmas Chant,Alfred Domett, [23]
Stability of Christianity,Rev. T. H. Stockton, [24]
The True Higher Law,Id. [25]
The One Great Need,Id. [27]
The Ship and the Bird,Owen Meredith, [28]
Tecumseh's Speech to the Creek Warriors,[29]
Territorial Expansion,S. S. Cox, [30]
Martha Hopkins,Phoebe Cary, [32]
The Bashful Man's Story,Charles Matthews, [35]
The Matter-of-fact Man,Anon. [38]
Rich and Poor,Joseph Barber, [39]
Seeing the Eclipse,Anon. [41]
Beauties of the Law,[42]
Ge-lang! git-up,New Orleans Delta, [44]
The Rats of Life,Charles T. Congdon, [45]
The Creownin' Glory of the United States,Knick. Mag. [46]
Three Fools,C. H. Spurgeon, [47]
Washington,Bocock, [48]
The Same,Id. [50]
The Same,Id. [52]
Our Great Inheritance,John J. Crittenden, [54]
Eulogium on Henry Clay,Lincoln, [55]
Ohio,Bancroft, [56]
Oliver Hazard Perry,Id. [57]
Our Domain,Id. [59]
Systems of Belief,Rev. W. H. Milburn, [60]
The Indian Chief,[62]
The Independent Farmer,W. W. Fosdick, [63]
Mrs. Grammar's Ball,Anon. [64]
How the Money Comes,[66]
The Future of the Fashions,Punch, [67]
Loyalty to Liberty our only Hope,Bishop Whipple, [68]
Our Country First, Last, and Always,Id. [69]
British Influence,John Randolph, [70]
Defense of Jefferson,Henry Clay, [71]
National Hatreds are Barbarous,Rufus Choate, [72]
Murder will out,Daniel Webster, [74]
Strive for the Best,[75]
Early Rising,John G. Saxe, [76]
Deeds of Kindness,[77]
Gates of Sleep,Dr. John Henry, [78]
The Bugle,Tennyson, [79]
A Hoodish Gem,[80]
Purity of the American Struggle, Hon. H. Wilson, 1859, [80]
Old Age,Theodore Parker, [81]
Beautiful, and as true as Beautiful,[83]
The Deluge,[84]
The Worm of the Still,[85]
Man's Connection with the Infinite,[87]
The Language of the Eagle,[88]
Washington,S. S. Cox, [90]
America vs. England,David Dudley Field, [91]
If we Knew,Ruth Benton, [94]