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

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Louise Manly

Southern Literature From 1579-1895

A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms / for the use of schools and the general reader

EAN 8596547362579

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Table of Contents

PREFACE.

LIST OF WORKS FOR REFERENCE.

FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750.

SECOND PERIOD ... 1750-1800.

THIRD PERIOD ... 1800-1850.

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1895.

INDEX.

List of Illustrations.

Southern Literature.

FIRST PERIOD ... 1579-1750.

JOHN SMITH.

WORKS.

RESCUE OF CAPTAIN SMITH BY POCAHONTAS, OR MATOAKA.

OUR RIGHT TO THOSE COUNTRIES, TRUE REASONS FOR PLANTATIONS, RARE EXAMPLES.

ASCENT OF THE JAMES RIVER, 1607.

WILLIAM STRACHEY.

WORKS.

A STORM OFF THE BERMUDAS.

JOHN LAWSON.

WORK.

NORTH CAROLINA IN 1700-1708.

HARVEST HOME OF THE INDIANS.

WILLIAM BYRD.

WORKS.

SELECTING THE SITE OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG, SEPT., 1733.

A VISIT TO EX-GOVERNOR SPOTSWOOD, 1732.

DISMAL SWAMP.

THE TUSCARORA INDIANS AND THEIR LEGEND OF A CHRIST.

SECOND PERIOD ... 1750-1800.

HENRY LAURENS.

WORKS.

A PATRIOT IN THE TOWER.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

WORKS.

An Honest Man.

How to Answer Calumny.

Conscience.

ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

A MILITARY DINNER-PARTY.

ADVICE TO A FAVORITE NEPHEW.

PASSAGES FROM THE FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1796.

PATRICK HENRY.

WORKS.

Remark on Slavery.

Not Bound by State Lines , (from the opening speech of the first Continental Congress, 1774.)

If this be treason , (Speech in House of Burgesses, 1765.)

THE FAMOUS REVOLUTION SPEECH, 1775.

WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON.

GEORGE III.’s ABDICATION OF POWER IN AMERICA.

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

WORKS.

POLITICAL MAXIMS.

RELIGIOUS OPINIONS AT THE AGE OF TWENTY.

SCENERY AT HARPER’S FERRY AND AT THE NATURAL BRIDGE.

ON FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS OPINION.

ON THE DISCOURSES OF CHRIST.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

LETTER TO HIS DAUGHTER, MARTHA JEFFERSON.

JEFFERSON’S LAST LETTER, IN ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO BE PRESENT AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, IN WASHINGTON.—TO MR. WEIGHTMAN, MAYOR OF WASHINGTON.

DAVID RAMSAY.

WORKS.

Sermon on Tea, (1775) .

BRITISH TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES, 1755.

SERGEANT JASPER AT FORT MOULTRIE, 28th June, 1776 .

SUMPTER AND MARION.

JAMES MADISON.

WORKS.

OPINION OF LAFAYETTE, (IN LETTERS TO JEFFERSON) .

PLEA FOR A REPUBLIC, ALTHOUGH A NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON.

ST. GEORGE TUCKER.

WORKS.

RESIGNATION, OR DAYS OF MY YOUTH.

JOHN MARSHALL.

WORKS.

POWER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE DUTIES OF A JUDGE.

HENRY LEE.

WORK.

CAPTURE OF FORT MOTTE BY LEE AND MARION, MAY, 1780.

THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY.

MASON LOCKE WEEMS.

WORKS.

THE HATCHET STORY.

JOHN DRAYTON.

WORKS.

A REVOLUTIONARY OBJECT LESSON IN THE CAUSE OF PATRIOTISM, APRIL 1775.

THE BATTLE OF NOEWEE, BETWEEN THE SOUTH CAROLINIANS AND THE CHEROKEES, 1776.

WILLIAM WIRT.

WORKS.

THE BLIND PREACHER, (JAMES WADDELL) .

MR. HENRY AGAINST JOHN HOOK.

JOHN RANDOLPH.

WORKS.

THE REVISION OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

GEORGE TUCKER.

WORKS.

JEFFERSON’S PREFERENCE FOR COUNTRY LIFE.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

THIRD PERIOD ... 1800-1850.

HENRY CLAY.

WORKS.

TO BE RIGHT ABOVE ALL.

NO GEOGRAPHICAL LINES IN PATRIOTISM.

MILITARY INSUBORDINATION.

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.

WORKS.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.

THE MOCKING-BIRD.

THE HUMMING-BIRD.

THOMAS HART BENTON.

WORKS.

THE DUEL BETWEEN RANDOLPH AND CLAY.

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN.

WORKS.

WAR AND PEACE.

SYSTEM OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

DEFENCE OF NULLIFICATION.

THE WISE CHOICE.

OFFICIAL PATRONAGE.

NATHANIEL BEVERLEY TUCKER.

WORKS.

THE PARTISAN LEADER, (WRITTEN IN 1836) .

DAVID CROCKETT.

WORKS.

SPELLING AND GRAMMAR—HIS PROLOGUE.

ON A BEAR HUNT.

RICHARD HENRY WILDE.

WORKS.

MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE.

AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET.

WORKS.

NED BRACE AT CHURCH.

A SAGE CONVERSATION.

ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE.

WORKS.

STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND LIBERTY.

SAM HOUSTON.

CAUSE OF THE TEXAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.

BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO.

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE INDIANS.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL PRESTON.

WORKS.

LITERARY SOCIETY IN COLUMBIA, 1825.

JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY.

WORKS.

A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN IN VIRGINIA.

HIS WIFE.

HOW HORSE-SHOE AND ANDREW CAPTURED FIVE MEN.

HUGH SWINTON LEGARÉ.

WORKS.

COMMERCE AND WEALTH VS. WAR.

DEMOSTHENES’ COURAGE.

A DUKE’S OPINIONS OF VIRGINIA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA.

MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR.

WORKS.

THE DAUGHTER OF MENDOZA.

FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS.

WORKS.

THE FIRST INDIAN BAPTISM IN AMERICA.

VIRGINIA DARE, THE FIRST ENGLISH CHILD BORN IN AMERICA.

THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE.

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE.

WORKS.

THE CLOSING YEAR.

PARAGRAPHS.

EDWARD COATE PINKNEY.

WORKS.

A HEALTH.

SONG.

CHARLES ÉTIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRÉ.

WORKS.

LOUISIANA IN 1750-1770.

THE TREE OF THE DEAD.

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY.

WORKS.

THE GULF STREAM.

DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS.

HEROIC DEATH OF LIEUTENANT HERNDON.

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS.

WORKS.

SONNET.—THE POET’S VISION.

THE DOOM OF OCCONESTOGA.

MARION. The Swamp Fox.

ROBERT EDWARD LEE.

WORKS.

TO HIS SON.

At THE SURRENDER.

GENERAL LEE’S LAST ORDER.

LETTER ACCEPTING THE PRESIDENCY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

WORKS.

TRIP TO KENTUCKY AT SEVEN YEARS OF AGE, AND VISIT TO GENERAL JACKSON.

LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

FAREWELL TO THE SENATE, 1861, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SECESSION OF MISSISSIPPI FROM THE UNION.

EDGAR ALLAN POE.

WORKS.

TO HELEN.

ISRAFEL.

HAPPINESS.

THE RAVEN.

ROBERT TOOMBS.

WORKS.

FAREWELL TO THE SENATE, 1861.

OCTAVIA WALTON LE VERT.

WORKS.

TO CADIZ FROM HAVANNA, 1855.

LOUISA SUSANNAH M’CORD.

WORKS.

WOMAN’S DUTY.

JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.

WORKS.

VIRGINIANS IN A NEW COUNTRY.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS.

WORKS.

LAWS OF GOVERNMENT.

SKETCH IN THE SENATE, FEB. 5, 1850.

TRUE COURAGE.

ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK.

WORKS.

RED EAGLE, OR WEATHERFORD.

PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE.

WORKS.

FLORENCE VANE.

THEODORE O’HARA.

WORKS.

THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1894.

GEORGE RAINSFORD FAIRBANKS.

WORKS.

OSCEOLA, LEADER OF THE SEMINOLES.

RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON.

WORKS.

MR. HEZEKIAH ELLINGTON’S RECOVERY.

JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON.

ASHBY.

MUSIC IN CAMP.

JABEZ LAMAR MONROE CURRY.

WORKS.

RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON.

WORKS.

THE SHADE OF THE TREES.

CHARLES HENRY SMITH.

WORKS.

BIG JOHN, ON THE CHEROKEES.

ST. GEORGE H. TUCKER.

WORKS.

BURNING OF JAMESTOWN IN 1676.

GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY.

JUD. BROWNIN’S ACCOUNT OF RUBINSTEIN’S PLAYING.

SARAH ANNE DORSEY.

WORKS.

A CONFEDERATE EXILE ON HIS WAY TO MEXICO, 1866.

HENRY TIMROD.

WORKS.

SONNET.

ENGLISH KATIE.

HYMN SUNG AT THE CONSECRATION OF MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, CHARLESTON, S. C.

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.

WORKS.

THE MOCKING-BIRD. (At Night.)

SONNET.—OCTOBER.

A DREAM OF THE SOUTH WIND.

JOHN ESTEN COOKE.

WORKS.

THE RACES IN VIRGINIA, 1765.

ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE.

WORKS.

CHANGES WROUGHT BY THE WAR.

ALBERT PIKE.

WORKS.

TO THE MOCKING-BIRD.

WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON.

WORKS.

MAJOR JONES’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO MARY STALLINGS.

JAMES BARRON HOPE.

WORKS.

THE VICTORY AT YORKTOWN.

WASHINGTON AND LEE.

JAMES WOOD DAVIDSON.

WORKS.

THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE POETICAL.

CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, Jr.

WORKS.

SALZBURGER SETTLEMENT IN GEORGIA.

MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE.

WORKS.

LETTER DESCRIBING MARY [BALL] WASHINGTON WHEN A YOUNG GIRL.

MADAM WASHINGTON AT THE PEACE BALL.

AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON.

WORKS.

A LEARNED AND INTERESTING CONVERSATION.

DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS.

WORKS.

THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING.

JAMES RYDER RANDALL.

WORKS.

MY MARYLAND.

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN.

WORKS.

WILLIAM GORDON McCABE.

WORKS.

DREAMING IN THE TRENCHES.

SIDNEY LANIER.

WORKS.

SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE.

What is Music?

THE TIDE RISING IN THE MARSHES.

JAMES LANE ALLEN.

WORKS.

SPORTS OF A KENTUCKY SCHOOL IN 1795.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.

WORKS.

THE TAR-BABY.

ROBERT BURNS WILSON.

WORKS.

FAIR DAUGHTER OF THE SUN.

CHRISTIAN REID.

WORKS.

ASCENT OF MOUNT MITCHELL, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA.

HENRY WOODFEN GRADY.

WORKS.

THE SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR.

THOMAS NELSON PAGE.

WORKS.

MARSE CHAN’S LAST BATTLE.

MARY NOAILLES MURFREE.

WORKS.

THE HARNT THAT WALKS CHILHOWEE.

DANSKE DANDRIDGE.

WORKS.

THE SPIRIT AND THE WOOD SPARROW.

AMÉLIE RIVES CHANLER.

WORKS.

TANIS.

GRACE KING.

WORKS.

LA GRANDE DEMOISELLE.

WAITMAN BARBE.

WORKS.

SIDNEY LANIER.

MADISON CAWEIN.

WORKS.

THE WHIPPOORWILL.

DIXIE.

List of Authors.

QUESTIONS.

General Questions.

FIRST PERIOD, 1579-1750.

SECOND PERIOD, 1750-1800.

THIRD PERIOD, 1800-1850.

FOURTH PERIOD, 1850-1895.

APPENDIX.

List of Southern Writers.

A Supplementary List, July, 1895.

PREFACE.

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THE primary object of this book is to furnish our children with material for becoming acquainted with the development of American life and history as found in Southern writers and their works. It may serve as a reader supplementary to American history and literature, or it may be made the ground-work for serious study of Southern life and letters; and between these extremes there are varying degrees of usefulness.

To state its origin will best explain its existence. This may furthermore be of some help to teachers in using the book, though each teacher will use it as best suits his classes and methods.

The study of History is rising every day in importance. Sir Walter Raleigh in his Historie of the World well said, It hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. It is the still living word of the vanished ages.

The best way of teaching history has of late years received much attention. One excellent method is to read, in connection with the text-book, good works of fiction, dramas, poetry, and historical novels, bearing upon the different epochs, and also to read the works of the authors themselves of these different periods. We thus make history and literature illustrate and beautify each other. The dry dates become covered with living facts, the past is peopled with real beings instead of hard names, fiction receives a solid basis for its airy architecture, and the mind of the pupil is interested and broadened. Even the difficult subjects of politics and institutions gradually assume a more pleasing aspect by being associated with individual human interests, and condescend to simplify themselves through personal relations.

To illustrate this method, which I have used with great success in teaching English History:

In connection with the times of the early Britons, read Tennyson’s Idyls of the King.

At the Norman Conquest, Bulwer’s Harold.

At the reign of Richard I. (Coeur de Lion), Scott’s Ivanhoe and Talisman, Shakspere’s King John.

At the reign of Elizabeth, Scott’s Kenilworth, the non-historical plays of Shakspere, as he lived at that epoch, Bacon’s Essays, and others.

I mention merely a few. The amount of reading can be increased almost indefinitely and will depend on the time of the pupil, the plan of the teacher, and the accessibility of the books. Most of the books necessary for English History are now published in cheap form and are within reach of every pupil.

A great deal of reading is very desirable; it is the only way to give our pupils any broad view of literature and history, and to cultivate a taste for reading in those destitute of it. It is often the only opportunity for reading which some pupils will ever have, and it lasts them a life-time as a pleasure and a benefit.[1]

The reading may be done in the class or out of school hours. It is well to read as much as practicable in class, and to have some sketch of the outside reading given in class.

Geography must also go hand in hand with history, a point now well understood. But its importance can hardly be exaggerated and its practice is of the utmost value. One must use maps to study and read intelligently.

In American History pursue a similar course, as for example:

At the period of discovery and early settlement, read Irving’s Columbus, Simms’ Vasconselos (De Soto’s Expedition), and Yemassee, John Smith’s Life and Writings, Longfellow’s Hiawatha and Miles Standish, Kennedy’s Rob of the Bowl, Strachey’s Works, Mrs. Preston’s Colonial Ballads, &c.

In Revolutionary times, the Revolutionary novels of Simms and Cooper, Kennedy’s Horse-Shoe Robinson; the great statesmen of the day, as Jefferson, Adams, Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Washington; Cooke’s Fairfax in which Washington appears as a youthful surveyor, and Virginia Comedians in which Patrick Henry appears, Thackeray’s Virginians; and others.

Each teacher will make his own list as his time and command of books allow. And each State or section of our great country will devote more time to its own special history and literature; this is right, for knowledge like charity begins at home, and gradually widens until it embraces the circle of the universe.

In collecting material for classes in American History to read in accordance with this plan, it was found easy to get cheap editions of Irving, Longfellow, Cooper, and other writers of the northern States, but almost impossible to get those of the southern, in cheap or even expensive editions. And the present volume has been prepared to supply in part this deficiency. To fit it to the plan suggested, the dates of the writers and the period and character of their works have been indicated, and some selections from them given for reading,—too little, it is feared, to be of much service, and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study.

The materials have been found so abundant, even so much more abundant than I suspected when undertaking the work, that it has been a hard task to make a selection from the rich masses of interesting writing. I fear that the work is too fragmentary and contains too many writers to make a lasting impression in a historical point of view.

If, however, it leads to a sympathetic study of Southern life and literature, and especially if it makes young people acquainted with our writers of the past and with something of the old-time life and the spirit that controlled our ancestors, it will serve an excellent purpose.

Our writers should be compared with those of other sections and other countries; and due honor should be given them, equally removed from over-praise and from depreciation. If we, their countrymen, do not know and honor them, who can be expected to do so? No people is great whose memory is lost, whose interest centres in the present alone, who looks not reverently back to true beginnings and hopefully forward to a grand future.

So I would urge my fellow-teachers to a fresh diligence in studying and worthily understanding the life and literature of our past, and in impressing them upon the minds of the rising generation, so as to infuse into the new forms now arising the best and purest and highest of the old forms fast passing away.

My sincere thanks are hereby tendered to the scholars who have aided me by their advice and encouragement, to living authors and the relatives of those not living who have generously given me permission to copy extracts from their writings, to the publishers who have kindly allowed me to use copyrighted matter, to Miss Anna M. Trice, Mr. Josiah Ryland, Jr., and the officials of the Virginia State Library where I found most of the books needed in my work, and to Mr. David Hutcheson, of the Library of Congress. My greatest indebtedness is to Professor William Taylor Thom and Professor John P. McGuire, for scholarly criticism and practical suggestions in the course of preparation.

1895.Louise Manly.

Footnote

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[1] See Professor Woodrow Wilson’s excellent article on the University study of Literature and Institutions, in the

Forum

, September, 1894.

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LIST OF WORKS FOR REFERENCE.

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Appleton: Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 6 vols.

Duyckinck: Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 2 vols.

Allibone: Dictionary of Authors, 3 vols.

Kirk: Supplement to Allibone, 2 vols.

Stedman: Poets of America.

Stedman and Hutchinson: Library of American Literature, 11 vols.

Poe: Literati of New York.

Griswold: Poets and Poetry of America.

Prose Writers of America.

Female Poets of America.

Hart: American Literature, Eldredge Bros., Phila.

Davidson: Living Writers of the South, (1869).

Miss Rutherford: American Authors, Franklin Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1863.

Southern Quarterly Review, 1842-1855.

De Bow’s Commercial Review.

The Land We Love, 1865-1869.

Southern Review, and Eclectic Review, Baltimore.

Southland Writers, by Ida Raymond (Mrs. Tardy).

Women of the South in Literature, by Mary Forrest.

Fortier: Louisiana Studies, F.F. Hansell, New Orleans.

Ogden: Literature of the Virginias, Independent Publishing Company, Morgantown, West Virginia.

C.W. Coleman, Jr.: Recent Movement in the Literature of the South, Harper’s Monthly, 1886, No. 74, p. 837.

T.N. Page: Authorship in the South before the War, Lippincott’s Magazine, 1889, No. 44, p. 105.

Professor C.W. Kent, University of Virginia: Outlook for Literature in the South.

People’s Cyclopedia (1894).

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INDEX.

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Footnote

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[2] Ginseng-Digger.

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List of Illustrations.

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