American patriotism
Subtitle: speeches, letters, and other papers, which illustrate the foundation, the development, the preservation of the United States of America
By: compiled by Selim H. Peabody
Contributors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887; Bancroft, George, 1800-1891; Simpson, Matthew, 1811-1884
Publisher: J.B. Alden
Published: 1886
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 674
Copyright date: 1881
Other titles: Speeches, letters, and other papers, which illustrate the foundation, the development, the preservation of the United States of America; American patriotism, 1764-1867
Notes: Preface signed and dated: S.H.P., New York, June 1, 1880.

Bound in cloth.

Handwritten signature in ink on flyleaf: Frank L. Allen.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Protest of Boston against taxation / Samuel Adams; title: The grievances of the American colonies / Stephen Hopkins; title: Cause of American discontent / Benjamin Franklin; title: Appeal to the sons of liberty / Samuel Adams; title: Letters from "Farmer" (Letter XII) / John Dickinson; title: Letter from "Candidus" / Samuel Adams; title: Report on the rights of colonists / Samuel Adams; title: Oration at Boston / Joseph Warren; title: Essay on the constitutional power of Great Britain / John Dickinson; title: Thoughts on standing armies / Josiah Quincy, Jr.; title: Oration on the Boston Massacre / John Hancock; title: Vindication of the colonies / Benjamin Franklin; title: Speech for American colonies / John Wilkes; title: Speech on a motion for removing troops from Boston / William Pitt; title: Speech to the delegates of Virginia / Patrick Henry; title: Oration on the re-interment of Warren / Perez Morton; title: Occupation of Dorchester Heights, 1776 / Edward Everett; title: The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson; title: Predictions concerning the 4th of July / John Adams; title: Patriotism a virtue / Jonathan Mason; title: Circular letter to the governors / George Washington; title: Resignation of commission / George Washington; title: The defects of the Confederation / Benjamin Rush; title: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson / Daniel Webster; title: pt. 2. Inaugural address / George Washington; title: Farewell address / George Washington; title: On the embargo / Josiah Quincy, Jr.; title: Maritime protection / Josiah Quincy, Jr.; title: Laying the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument / Daniel Webster; title: Reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster; title: Second centennial of Boston / Josiah Quincy, Jr.; title: Proclamation against nullification / Andrew Jackson; title: Lafayette / John Quincy Adams; title: The Jubilee of the Constitution / John Quincy Adams; title: Completion of Bunker Hill Monument / Daniel Webster; title: The true grandeur of nations / Charles Sumner; title: Eulogy on Webster / Rufus Choate; title: pt. 3. The duty of the free states / William Ellery Channing; title: The lessons of Independence Day / William Lloyd Garrison; title: The consequences of Secession / Henry Clay; title: Protest against slavery in Nebraska and Kansas / Charles Sumner; title: Debate with Douglas / Abraham Lincoln; title: Burial of John Brown / Wendell Phillips; title: At Independence Hall / Abraham Lincoln; title: First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln; title: Union mass meeting / Daniel Stevens Dickinson; title: Address at Amherst / Daniel Stevens Dickinson; title: The rebellion: its origin and mainspring / Charles Sumner; title: The war for the Union / Wendell Phillips; title: Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln; title: Emancipation immediate, not gradual / Charles Sumner; title: National Cemetery at Gettysburg / Edward Everett; title: Speech at Gettysburg / Abraham Lincoln; title: The treason of slavery / Carl Schurz; title: Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln; title: The martyr president / Henry Ward Beecher; title: The death of Lincoln / George Bancroft; title: The burial of Lincoln / Matthew Simpson; title: The double anniversary, '76 and '63 / Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; title: Centennial oration / Robert Charles Winthrop.