The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-23
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
It's not with me exactly SO,
But It's SO in the song,

He then proceeds in beautiful verse to give ID. ~
intellectual, social and spiritual wants Of man, 50 nun
that might think the odd eloquent had liS,tt
the complex civilization OF the twentieth century y
Of ms poems given is The Fate Of Erin
s. Is s.
Warmers Worlds Library Of Literature give
/ John Quincy Adams extracts from two Fourth Ct laf
tons one delivered in Boston, and the other IN Nisf
| i'm tSer Following arc few lines from the Nasa
address, entitled The Mission Of America
Wherever the standard OF freedom and indepshdHa
been unfurled there will be her heart her 6enedlala
her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search o. ~
70 DESTROY She we'll knows that by once enhstg
other banners than her own were they even the nas
independence she would involve herself IN az u' y.
interest and intrigue Of individual avaree envy s.i
ton that assume the coors and usurp INC s'anuAl i
dom The fundamental maXn1s OF her poiiey WV.a +
bly, change from liberty to force ne irosus q.
brow would no longer be with the nefabe pl.nDYs
dom and independence but IN its stead wou'a =
imperial diadem flashing in the false ana 'a, s
and murlcy radiance Of dominion aud power 1n'
come the dictatress Of the world she woulu ~ ~
ruler Of her own spirit
John Quincy Adams is also quoted Or ". Sss
Petition and on Qualification MI Nu r,A VA
gifts made several translations rom ~. hi
man writer's Jefferson and John Quincy su ..a,,,
most scholarly of all the presidents, II wowu 49,
Madison it is asserted in both OF 'he .s'' = Ls n
literature was brilliant writer, hut for man n. "a
wrote little, and has left less 10 poste''p. .,.;,s
quoted from him are some OF his newspsp, ~ p;ds,A
Warner does not quote Monroe az ali' wv
an extract from his message IN "n''' ,f.n,o, ID
Monroe Doctrine" as choice Literature -. soaA
coin are the only presidents whose @ go, n @
There is a long weary presidential desc zia,us I
from John Quincy Adams to Lincoln INV .,.
whom these works on literature 90 ho' w s,. lis a
Lincoln is copiously quoted Warner y. saa u,urd|
burg address and an extract from inc Has III Il
dress which is called sacred prose PON
lines from it i. ~, pfsy y
NIGHT, sca,,rgc Of war NAV speedily pass away,
toward none with charity for ALL WIN n VIZ, 10
as God gives us to see the right let W .a,ud, 70
work we are in 10 bind mp the naiioh q, N, sis
him who shall have borne the battle. s,s rh,rish
orphans TO do all which may aehiey IN III nations
lasting peace among ourselves anu oelarisiiou ~
Ridpath quotes the emancipation EnsIish
Of his state papers as classic ana Ho"' u
After Lincoln both these compehuia Words y.
nothing from any president Warner s..m NJ R'H
Literature" gives two long extracts IN do %
Winning of the West although IT, II li,fa9s
Mr. Roosevelt these two eneyeloIp,ssa,,h alone dssn
the same nresidents except that Riops~ fev lra
- ,,5 w. NJ Roosevelt Here are are ssrunhs
one of the extracts from ME- No , h,ekeoodsnin'
West in which tribute is paid the u, ,hiues ch'I
The backwoodsmen were above 2" ne two ~
ally American and it is fitting ta ,s nave been ~
most typical Of all Americans sh .u York Wsshss
a sharer and an outcome OF tne. - his youin y ~
Western movement of his people ln n. Dor born We
stands BY the side Of Washington .n5ed; and r
tinctive work OF the pioneer had ,. sssh io ~
bone OF their bone and flesh OF ilsn .0raug nshp
lons OF this gaunt frontier io'S IA
Lincoln" ,,,t;ons were M
Mr. McKinleys greatest pr,.as,;on Of ihs'.. \. ~
his reelection and after the pupleat NM arc q 81
choice literature Among the men ,mnuousy rPs' Il,
public life whose writings appear IoSa shetnas..
of these Libraries are Blaine. JO asr wasea.
and Webster Clay, Calhoun, sunni Dix. 1000
Evarts Henry Winter Davis lonn ioho Jsy 'ss,,ssS
ilion, John Hancock Patrick hensI AIsxsndd =
Chauneey Depev