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Library of Southern Literature: Miscellanæ

 By Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent

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Inventing Southern Literature
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End Notes to Walker History
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Lexington, Va - Page vii
Lee, of Lexington, Va. ; Mr. GC McKinley, of Milledgeville, Ga.; Mr. WB Meacham, of Fort Mill SC ; Mr. George Michie, of Charlottesville, Va. ; Mrs. ...
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Richmond, Va - Page 6434
JEFFERSON DAVIS [Monument in Richmond, Virginia.] Deo Vindice Pro Jure Civitatum Pro Aris et Focis JEFFERSON DAVIS President of The Confederate States ...
more pages: viii
Aberdeen, Mississippi - Page 6091
RE Lytle of Louisville, Kentucky, and to Major SA Jonas of Aberdeen, Mississippi. The probabilities favor the latter. ...
Augusta, Ga - Page vii
Evans, of Augusta, Ga. ; Mr. FP Gamble, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Professor Lancelot Minor Harris, of the College of Charleston; Mr. J. ...
more pages: 6097
Charleston, South Carolina - Page 6418
Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina'.] SACRED To the Memory of CAPT. MANUEL ANTHONIO, Who departed this Life on the 1 2th. ...
New Orleans - Page 6376
(You could form no possible idea of this coloured Creole element without seeing it: it does not exist in New Orleans. ...
more pages: 6371
Nashville, Tennessee - Page 6102
whose pseudonym was "John Happy," was formerly president of the American Newspaper and Publishing Company, of Nashville, Tennessee. ...
more pages: 6447
Charleston - Page 6410
I can tell you nothing about Charleston, although in February, having a free Railroad ticket, I went down and spent three days there. ...
more pages: 6425
Louisville, Kentucky - Page 6360
OSCAR WILDE, in his lecture at Louisville, Kentucky, was denouncing the invasion of the sacred domain of art by the meaner herd of tradespeople and ...
more pages: 6091
Atlanta, Ga - Page vii
FP Gamble, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Professor Lancelot Minor Harris, of the College of Charleston; Mr. J. Wallace Hoyt, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Miss Mary B. ...
more pages: 6528
Dallas, Texas - Page 6485
GRADY, The South and Her Problems, Address Delivered at the Dallas, Texas, State Fair, October 26, Courage. — I am afraid of nothing on earth, ...
more pages: 6472
Greensboro, NC - Page 6414
I surrendered to General Schofield at Greensboro, NC, on the 2d of May, 1865, who told me to go to my home and remain there, saying if he got any ...
more pages: 6464
Liverpool - Page 6371
and if so, give him a thousand memories of love and friendship for me, and say that I will write to him from Liverpool. ...
more pages: 6230
Charlottesville, Va - Page vii
George Michie, of Charlottesville, Va. ; Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, of Frankfort, Ky. ; Professor HO Murfee, of.
Buffalo - Page 6351
ONCE when Marshall was delivering a political speech in Buffalo, he was interrupted repeatedly by a drunken man's calling out "Louder! ...
Rutherfordton, NC - Page viii
BE Washburn, of Rutherfordton, NC ; Dr. LR Wilson, of the University of North Carolina ; and Miss Adina De Zavala, of San Antonio, Texas. ...
Marion, Ala - Page viii
Marion, Ala.; Mr. FT Norvell, of Richmond, Va. ; Mr. Hugh F. Oliver, of Buena Vista, Ga. ; Mr. Herbert Putnam, of Washington, DC ; Professor Franklin ...
more pages: 6463
New York - Page 6244
who insisted on keeping clean his rooms in Paris, London, New York — and who was now doing the same service in his quiet chambers on Royal Street ? ...
more pages: 6092
Paris - Page 6260
She hovered around me in Paris. The Quartier Latin, at a very feverish time, could raise no barricade against her. Mabille had no terrors for her. ...
more pages: 6259
Milledgeville, Ga - Page vii
GC McKinley, of Milledgeville, Ga.; Mr. WB Meacham, of Fort Mill SC ; Mr. George Michie, of Charlottesville, Va. ; Mrs. Jennie C. ...
more pages: 6308
Washington, DC - Page 6091
In the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, there is a Confederate note with these lines inscribed upon it and signed by Miss MJ Turner of North ...
more pages: 6423
Buena Vista, Ga - Page viii
Oliver, of Buena Vista, Ga. ; Mr. Herbert Putnam, of Washington, DC ; Professor Franklin L. Riley, of the University of Mississippi; Mr. ...
San Juan - Page 6505
El Caney, and San Juan, and left the Stars and Stripes floating in triumph over the last stronghold of Spain in the New World. ...
Baltimore - Page 6125
In 1859 a volume of Key's poems was published in Baltimore with an introductory letter by his brother-in-law, Chief Justice Taney, but the contents ...
more pages: 6389
Plymouth - Page 6488
as far south as she did north of her original destination, and had that cargo of "godly kickers" landed at Jamestown instead of at Plymouth.
Vicksburg - Page 6379
Lee's death, I received your invitation to deliver an address on the igth of January next, at the city of Vicksburg, the strongest impulses prompted ...
Newport - Page 6112
With her both Gates and Newport come, to tell Report doth lye, Which did divulge unto the world that they at sea did dye. ...
more pages: 6159
Lexington, Ky - Page viii
John Wilson Townsend, of Lexington, Ky. ; Miss Anna Seeley Tuttle, of the University of Virginia; Mr. George Platt Waller, Jr., of Montgomery, ...
more pages: 6180
Boston - Page 6092
Whatever the origin of the name, the song spread from New Orleans through the South, just as "John Brown's Body" spread from Boston through the North. ...
more pages: 6466
Salem, North Carolina - Page 6422
JOHN HENRY BONER [In the Moravian churchyard at Salem, North Carolina. The tribute is by Edmund Clarence Stedman.] John Henry Boner, Born in Salem, ...
San Antonio, Texas - Page viii
LR Wilson, of the University of North Carolina ; and Miss Adina De Zavala, of San Antonio, Texas. It should be needless to say that selections have ...
Eatonton, Georgia - Page 6169
Hunt, of Eatonton, Georgia, appeared first in Judge but have been frequently reproduced.] Ah, little shoes, with huge rosette, And heel, ...
Frankfort, Ky - Page vii
WB Meacham, of Fort Mill SC ; Mr. George Michie, of Charlottesville, Va. ; Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, of Frankfort, Ky. ; Professor HO Murfee, of.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Page 6417
HENRY WATKINS ALLEN [Monument at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.] GOVERNOR ALLEN in a letter from the City of Mexico, 25th December, 1865, to a friend in ...
Hendersonville, North Carolina - Page 6446
SOLOMON JONES [The headstone bearing the following inscription is on the side of the road between Hendersonville, North Carolina, and Mount Hebron ...
Oxford - Page 6220
As Freeman, late professor of history at Oxford, said in one of his lectures, "in the blow by the Teutoberg wood was the germ of the Declaration of ...
more pages: 6221
Knoxville, Tennessee - Page 6429
1892, By the Ladies' Memorial Association of Knoxville, Tennessee, Commemorates The heroic courage and unshaken constancy of more than 1600 soldiers ...
more pages: xii
Salisbury - Page 6414
I came in a buggy to Salisbury, where we took the cars. I saw no mule on the trip, yet I thought I saw an ass at the general's headquarters; ...
Orlando - Page 6396
I almost envy you Orlando. I would, if it were not Johnny Hoole's translation; although, at the age of ten, I devoured that more eagerly than ...
Fredericksburg, Virginia - Page 6144
CLARK Lin this poem the author narrates an act of heroism performed by Richard Kirkland, of Kershaw's Brigade, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, ...
Kansas City - Page 6359
SENATOR GEORGE VEST, of Missouri, was once commenting upon the inadequate postoffice facilities in Kansas City. "Why, Mr. President," he said, "I have ...
Whittier - Page 6278
of fiction in New England shows that the domination of the past singers and prophets, the generation of Longfellow and Whittier and Emerson, is over. ...
more pages: 6276
Ashland, Ky - Page 6495
HENRY CLAY, Speech at Ashland, Ky., March, 1829. Governors, The Two. — "As the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina, ...
London - Page 6115
by their treasurer Paid him in London at first sight, no man shall cause to grieve, For tis their generall will and wish that every man should live. ...
more pages: 6112
Savannah, Georgia - Page 6119
So far as we know this was true of Marie de la Coste, of Savannah, Georgia, the author of "Somebody's Darling." As it was written at the time when ...
Harrisburg - Page 6414
Accordingly, I went home and there remained until I was arrested on I3th of May, by a detachment of 300 cavalry, tinder Major Porter, of Harrisburg, ...
Philadelphia - Page 6283
Both had the native, historic, romantic setting, and went back whether in Philadelphia or in Kentucky to the days of the fathers of the republic. ...
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Shiloh, Tennessee - Page 6445
Beyond this stone is laid, For a season, ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, A general in the army of the Confederate States, Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, ...
Montgomery, Ala - Page viii
George Platt Waller, Jr., of Montgomery, Ala. ; Mr. BE Washburn, of Rutherfordton, NC ; Dr. LR Wilson, of the University of North Carolina ; and Miss ...
Algiers - Page 6245
Blanche de Beaumanoir, because, as already told, she had, while crossing the ferry to Algiers, lost her balance and fallen overboard in mid-stream. ...
Athens, Ga - Page 6477
WALTER HINES PAGE, Address delivered at the Commencement of the State Normal School at Athens, Ga., Dec. 11, 1 Childhood. ...
Annapolis - Page 6239
And now, at the suggestion of Maryland, Virginia had called on all the States to meet in convention at Annapolis, to adopt commercial relations for ...
Raleigh, North Carolina - Page 6099
Holden, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1844. He1 was a student at the University of North Carolina for a short time, a Confederate soldier, ...
Zutphen - Page 6322
Sidney, dying on the fields of Zutphen, instead of quenching his own intolerable thirst, hands.
Augusta, In - Page 6426
[East Side] Our Confederate Dead [West Side] Erected AD, 1878, By the Ladies' Memorial Association of Augusta, In honor of the Men of Richmond County, ...
Lowville, NY - Page 6103
the authorship being ascribed with equal confidence to Philo Henderson, of North Carolina, and to Benjamin Franklin Taylor, of Lowville, NY]. ...
Madison - Page 6240
In such manner, my countrymen, Virginia, adopting the words of Madison, and moved by the constant spirit of Washington, joined in convoking that ...
Manassas - Page 6377
WHITE [A day or two after the battle of Manassas, and before the news of the victory had reached Lexington in authentic form, the postoffice was ...
Austin, Texas - Page 6445
of citizens in charge with one voice decided upon this, and it is now inscribed upon the broad panel at the base of the statue, in Austin, Texas. ...
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Coventry - Page 6263
an order had been given to all the slaves of La Quinte, somewhat in the fashion of that borne by the herald of Coventry, . . .a thousand summers back. ...
more pages: 6264
Waterloo - Page 6509
It fights for glory at the Granicus, for fame at Agincourt, for empire at Waterloo, for power on the Ganges, for religion in Palestine, for country at ...
more pages: 6322
Sumter - Page 6435
The Army of the Confederate States From Sumter to Appomattox, Four years of Unflinching struggle Against Overwhelming Odds. ...
Petersburg, Virginia - Page 6452
written about 1840 by Miss Eliza Lewis Hening, of Virginia, are engraved on the' walls of the Old Blandford Church at Petersburg, Virginia. ...
St. Louis - Page 6373
I came among people who could not believe it possible that ground about St. Louis, then selling for thirty dollars an acre, should sell at this day ...
Preston - Page 6373
Vast numbers are arriving from the Parent state; but it would not seem like Virginia to me without some Preston s in it; and happily our friend ...
Tupelo - Page 6335
"It was down in Tupelo, just after the war. I was at that time a practicing lawyer — that is, I practiced when I had any cases to practice with. ...
Lebanon, Kentucky - Page 6296
Knott was born in 1830, in Lebanon, Kentucky, where1 he now resides. He has served his State as member of Congress, governor, professor of civics and ...
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - Page 6428
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Officers of the Confederate Monument Association of Mississippi, AD, 1890: Miss Sallle B. ...
Edinburgh - Page 6433
In Life he was Admired and Beloved by the Virtuous and the Wise. In Death he has Silenced Calumny and Caused Envy to Mourn. He was Born in Edinburgh, ...
Cheraw, South Carolina - Page 6458
David's Churchyard, Cheraw, South Carolina, has been the subject of much discussion. See The State, of Columbia, South Carolina, October, 23, 1907, ...
Rock Hill, SC - Page 6527
SMITH, The Uses of a Library, Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Carnegie Library, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC, June 4, 1906. ...
Winston- Salem, NC - Page 6488
MclvER, The Education of Women, Address at the fourth annual Conference for Education in the South, at Winston- Salem, NC, April, 1por. ...
Natchez, Mississippi - Page 6447
RE LEE [Monument at Natchez, Mississippi.] In Memoriam RE LEE, The Great, the Good, the Wise, Called hence to his reward. ...
Cambridge - Page 6221
Milton's Satan is more polished, better educated, thanks to Oxford and Cambridge, but the spirit is essentially one with that of the ruder poet, ...
Wilmington, North Carolina - Page 6440
CORNELIUS HARNETT [Erected in Wilmington, North Carolina. Dedicated May 2, 1907.] [West Face] The North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of ...
Little Rock, Arkansas - Page 6116
Allsopp, Publisher: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1900, page 87). The poem first appeared in a short-lived paper published before the1 War, in Little Rock. ...
Orange, New Jersey - Page 6083
Ethel Lynn Beers, who resided in Orange, New Jersey, and died October 10, 1879." The authorship has also been claimed for Lamar Fontaine, of Texas. ...
Phila - Page 6431
Dying in Captivity And tendered a monument In Phila. where they lie buried, This stone is erected to their.
Centreville, Va - Page 6083
Regt. near Centreville, Va., October 3, 1861," Mr. John D. Ashton of Georgia, writing to his wife, says: "Upon nvjr arrival at home, should I be so ...
Columbia, South Carolina - Page 6427
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA [This eloquent inscription was composed by William Henry Trescot (4822-1898), of Charleston. ...
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Lynchburg, Virginia - Page 6118
THE SOLDIER BOY [This poem was written in Lynchburg, Virginia, May 18, 1861, and signed HML It has been frequently republished but the name of the ...
Brunswick - Page 6440
[East Face] The Cape Fear first explored 1663 first settlement at Old Town 1665 permanent settlemen. at Brunswick 1725 Wilmington Established 1733 ...
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Page 6430
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA [Dedicated June 17, 1891.] AD 186* AD 1865. The Uncrowned Heroes of the Southern 'Confederacy Whose joy it ...
Cincinnati - Page 6284
Ste- phenson's 'They That Took the Sword,' picturing Cincinnati, both border cities in border States, in war time. ...
Houston, Texas - Page 6155
THE TWINS (VITA ET MORS) By JM GIBSON [Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas, September 23, 1907.] There are two cities side by side, One racked with ...
Rome - Page 6220
humble home at Nazareth or watching his father at work in his shop, our forefathers dealt Rome a blow from which she never recovered. ...
more pages: 6497
Santos - Page 6250
For tedos los Santos y Santas del cielo! " (May God have mercy on my boy! For Christ's sake! For His Holy Mother's sake ! ...
Augusta - Page 6355
SHORTLY after the war Toombs met Thad Stevens in Augusta. "Well, Mr. Toombs," said Stevens, "how do you rebels feel after being licked by the Yankees? ...
Damascus - Page 6263
as she had been faithful to him in his young strength under the skies of Damascus and on the shining shores of the Mediterranean. ...
more pages: 6118
Khartoum - Page 6323
Gordon sacrifices his life at Khartoum not only cheerfully, but almost instinctively, because the suggestion that he might save himself by abandoning ...
Sibi - Page 6450
Qui tandem senis et Moerore Confectus Ex variis Rebus arduis quas in hac vita perpessus est Mortisq: in dies memor ideo virens et valens Sibi hunc ...
Venice - Page 6541
Night in Venice! A night of silver moons — one hung against the velvet blue of the infinite, fathomless sky, the other at rest in the still sea below. ...
more pages: 6304
Vienna - Page 6386
Once he went to Vienna — that gay New York of Austria; and he writes back to his sister Theresa : "... So my plans have as yet progressed but little. ...

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With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.Page 6511
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!Page 6134
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.Page 6435
Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...Page 6125
The prevalence of that pacific and friendly Disposition, among the People of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the Community.Page 6471
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?Page 6499
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.Page 6378
I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.Page 6208
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?Page 6125
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works : 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.Page 6355

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