Independence Day - Unknown

Published, February, 1912

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Preface		[7]
Note		[9]
Introduction		[11]
I CELEBRATION
The Great American Holiday	Anonymous	[21]
The Nation’s Birthday	Mary E. Vandyne	[22]
How the Fourth of July Should Be Celebrated	Julia Ward Howe	[24]
II SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE
England and America	James Bryce	[39]
The Birthday of the Nation	Daniel Webster	[40]
The Fourth of July	Charles Leonard Moore	[42]
Lift Up Your Hearts	Anonymous	[42]
England and the Fourth of July	W. T. Stead	[46]
Some Early Independence Day Addresses		[47]
The Fourth of July	Charles Sprague	[53]
Our National Anniversary	A. H. Rice	[54]
America’s Natal Day	James Gillespie Blaine	[55]
Crises of Nations	Dr. Foss	[56]
The Fourth of July in Westminster Abbey	Phillips Brooks	[56]
III BEFORE THE DAWN OF INDEPENDENCE
America Resents British Dictation	Henry B. Carrington	[61]
Speech of James Otis		[62]
Independence a Solemn Duty		[64]
An Appeal for America	William Pitt	[66]
Conciliation or War		[69]
“War is Actually Begun”	Patrick Henry	[72]
Emancipation from British Dependence	Philip Freneau	[76]
IV THE DECLARATION
The Origin of the Declaration	Sydney George Fisher	[81]
The Declaration of Independence	John D. Long	[101]
The Signing of the Declaration	George Lippard	[104]
Supposed Speech of John Adams	Daniel Webster	[107]
The Liberty Bell	J. T. Headley	[111]
Independence Bell, Philadelphia	Anonymous	[112]
The Declaration of Independence		[115]
Independence Explained	Samuel Adams	[121]
The Dignity of Our Nation’s Founders	William T. Evarts	[123]
The Character of the Declaration of Independence	George Bancroft	[125]
The Declaration of Independence	Henry T. Randall	[126]
The Declaration of Independence	John Quincy Adams	[127]
The Declaration of Independence	Tudor Jenks	[128]
The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism	Moses Coit Tyler	[132]
V THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
The Principles of the Revolution		[157]
The Song of the Cannon	Sam Walter Foss	[158]
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[160]
Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[164]
A Song for Lexington	Robert Kelly Weeks	[165]
The Revolutionary Alarm	George Bancroft	[166]
The Volunteer	Elbridge Jefferson Cutler	[168]
Ticonderoga	V. B. Wilson	[169]
Warren’s Address	John Pierpont	[171]
“The Lonely Bugle Grieves”	Grenville Mellen	[172]
The Battle of Bunker Hill		[173]
The Maryland Battalion	John Williamson Palmer	[175]
The Battle of Trenton	Anonymous	[177]
Columbia	Timothy Dwight	[178]
The Fighting Parson	Henry Ames Blood	[180]
The Saratoga Lesson	George William Curtis	[184]
The Surrender of Burgoyne	James Watts De Peyster	[187]
The Saratoga Monument Begun	Horatio Seymour	[187]
Molly Maguire at Monmouth	William Collins	[190]
The South in the Revolution	Robert Young Hayne	[193]
The Song of Marion’s Men	William Cullen Bryant	[195]
Our Country Saved	James Russell Lowell	[197]
New England and Virginia	Robert Charles Winthrop	[199]
VI SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
America	S. F. Smith	[203]
The Republic	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[205]
The Antiquity of Freedom	William Cullen Bryant	[206]
America	William Cullen Bryant	[208]
Ode	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[210]
America First	Anonymous	[212]
Liberty for All	William Lloyd Garrison	[213]
Hymn	Anonymous	[214]
The Dawning Future	William Preston Johnson	[216]
Liberty		[216]
Freedom		[217]
A Rhapsody	Cassius Marcellus Clay	[219]
Columbia	Frederick Lawrence Knowles	[221]
A Renaissance of Patriotism	George J. Manson	[222]
Centennial Poems	John Greenleaf Whittier	[230]
Welcome to the Nation	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[232]
Liberty’s Latest Daughter	Bayard Taylor	[233]
“Scum of the Earth”	Robert Haven Schauffler	[234]
Liberty and Union One and Inseparable	Daniel Webster	[238]
Address to Liberty	William Cowper	[240]
The Torch of Liberty	Thomas Moore	[241]
Horologe of Liberty	Anonymous	[242]
The American Republic	George Bancroft	[243]
A New National Hymn	Francis Marion Crawford	[244]
VII FICTION
Jim’s Aunt	Frances Bent Dillingham	[249]
VIII THE NEW FOURTH
Our Barbarous Fourth	Mrs. Isaac L. Rice	[265]
A Safe and Sane Fourth of July	Henry Litchfield West	[285]
The New Independence Day	Henry B. F. MacFarland and Richard B. Watrous	[296]
New Fourths for Old	Mrs. Isaac L. Rice	[299]
Americanizing the Fourth	Robert Haven Schauffler	[307]

PREFACE

This book is an anthology of American Independence: of the document that announced its birth; of the struggle that established it in life; and of the patriotism that was to it both sire and son. It aims to present a clear review of the origin, spirit and significance of Independence Day and of its celebration both by the now discredited methods of brutal, meaningless noise and indiscriminate carnage, which disgraced the larger part of the previous century, and by the recent methods of sane and safe, reverent and meaningful celebration.

The volume contains a selection of the best prose and verse that bears in any way on our nation’s birthday; and closes with many constructive suggestions for the celebration of our new, more beautiful and more patriotic Fourth.

CONTENTS

PREFACE