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AMERICAN PATRIOTISM:
SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND OTHER PAPERS
WHICH ILLUSTRATE
THE FOUNDATION,
THE DEVELOPMENT,
THE PRESERVATION
OF TH E
United States of America.
COMPILED BY
SELIM H. PEABODY, Ph.D.
New York:
AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE,
Tribune Building.
1880.
Copyright, 1881. by thb
AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE.
PREFACE.
The design of this compilation is to present a sheaf of ripened grain grown on American soil; to include the noblest specimens of the learning, and eloquence, and wisdom, and patriotism of those who, by the judgment of their own time and the concurrent verdict of posterity have been recognized as the foremost men and the clearest thinkers in the growing state. Such sheaves have been garnered before. But the later events, hardly yet rounded into completeness, furnish to the reaper a broader field, upturned by the tillage of war, whence has sprang a new harvest of glorious and abounding grain not less precious than that oft reaped before. This work has naturally classified itself into three parts: the first including papers which illustrate the formative period of the nation's history — culminating in the Revolution; the second, those produced in a time, not at all of inaction, but of vigorous and healthful yet of peaceful development; the third, those poured forth in hot and tumultuous haste, blazing with patriotic fire, when the
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