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A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY CIVILIZATION, 1829-1865. Children in Philadelphia factories. The factory system. Labors view of immigration. Obtaining female operatives. The first ten-hour law. A factory idyl, by David Crockett -- From Constitution of the New-Harmony Community of Equality, preamble -- The constitution of the Brook Farm Association -- From Hints toward reform, by Horace Greeley. Communistic philosophies -- From The Harmony of interests. The fallacies of classical economics / Henry Charles Carey -- The perishing classes in Boston. The problem. Vagrant boys and girls. The adult poor. The intemperate poor. Solutions / Theodore Parker -- From Sociology for the south. A southern defense of slavery and a criticism of industrialism / George Fitzhugh -- From Two years before the mast. A flogging / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- From Memoial to the Legislature of Massachusetts. Neglect of the insane / Dorothea Dix -- On district school libraries. Pecuniary value of education. The aims of education / Horace Mann -- From Thoughts and things at home and abroad. Inhumanity of war. The pioneers of peace. The patriotism of passive resistance / Elihu Burritt -- From Nattative of the expedition ... to Japan. Reception, July 14, 1853. Presentation of credentias. Exchange of gifts, March 24, 1854. American hospitality / Matthew Calbraith Perry -- From Col. Crocketts exploits and adventures in Texas. Frontier politics. A great swamp fight / David Crockett -- From Indian depredations in Texas. The frontiersmans attitude toward the Indian. A Comanche princess. Massacre of the Kennon and Paschal families / John Wesley Wilbarger -- From The report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains / Sutter of California. Indian attacks / John Charles Fremont -- From The Diary. A mill site. The first gold. The gold rush / Johann Augustus Sutter -- From Speech on the Oregon question. The Oregon country. The Columbia River. Superiority of the white race / Thomas Hart Benton -- From Discovery of the Yosemite / Lafayette Houghton Bunnell -- From Discourses of Brigham Young. The settlement in the West. Political government / Brigham Young -- Missionary activity in the Mississippi Valley -- An Indian plea for Christian knowledge -- Unitarian Christianity. The moral argument against Calvinism / William Ellery Channing -- From Orphic sayings. Emerson. Thoreau. Wendell Phillips. Garrison / Amos Bronson Alcott -- Good-bye. Thought. The rhodora. The apology. Concord hymn. Uriel. Each and all. The humble-bee. The problem. The sphinx. The snow-storm. Grace. Politics. Fable. Ode inscribed to W. H. Channing. Guy. Alphonso of Castile. Days. The Bohemian hymn. Brahma. Two rivers. Waldeinsamkeit. Terminus. Nature. The American scholar. Brook Farm / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The inward morning. Nature. Independence. Mission. From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. From Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- Sights from a steeple. The gray champion. Wakefield. The maypole of Merry Mount. The birthmark. Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- From Moby Dick. From Mardi and a voyage thither / Herman Melville.;THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD, 1783-1829. A political litany. On the memorable victory of Paul Jones. To the memory of the brave Americans. The vanity of existence. Literary importation. The wild honeysuckle. The Indian burying ground. Ode: God save the rights of man! On a honey bee. On the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The Republican genius of Europe. To a caty-did. To my book. On the religion of nature / Philip Freneau -- Columbia. From Greenfield Hill. The flourishing village. The duty of Americans, at the present crisis. From Travels in New-England and New-York. The foresters or pioneers / Timothy Dwight -- From A grammatical institute of the English language, part I. From Dissertations on the English langauge. 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A bee-hunt / Washington Irving -- From Prometheus. To Seneca Lake. To Coral Grove. New-England / James Gates Percival -- Thanatopsis. The yellow violet. Inscription for the entrance to a wood. To a waterfowl. I cannot forget with what frvid devotion. O fairest of the rural maids. Monument mountain. A forest hymn. The death of the flowers. The past. Hymn o the city. To the fringed gentian. The prairies. The battle-field. The antiquity of freedom. O, mother of a mighty race. The poet. The right of workmen to strike / William Cullen Bryant.;VOLUME 1. THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1607-1761. Colonial beginnings in Virginia and New England. From A description of New England. A call for American colonists. From The generall historie of Virginia. Pocahontas / John Smith -- Conditions at Jamestown, 1607-1609 -- From Of Plimoth Plantation. Showing ye reasons and causes of their remoovall. The compact and settlement / William Bradford -- Of the Revells of New Canaan. Of a great monster. How the 9. worthies / Thomas Morton -- From The journal. Price fixing. A scarlet letter. Problems of government. Murder of Oldham. A cruel schoolmaster. On liberty / John Winthrop . Seventeenth-century New England Puritanism. From Gods promise to his plantation. Counsel to the colonists. From The Keyes of the kingdom of heaven. Of the fruits of congregational discipline / John Cotton -- From the wonder-working providence. Founding of Harvard College / Edward Johnson -- From The simple cobler of Aggawamm. Against toleration. Mans clear duty / Nathaniel Ward -- From The blovdy tenent. Theses proved. Separation of church and state / Roger Williams -- From The sincere convert. The everlasting fire. Nine easy ways to hell / Thomas Shepard -- The prologue. Meditation. To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- From The day of doom. Gods judgment day. The easiest room in hell / Michael Wigglesworth -- From A discourse about civil government. A defense of theocracy / John Davenport -- From An essay for the recording of illustrious providences. A bewitched house. The probation by cold water / Increase Mather -- From The wonders of the invisible world. Devils in New England. From Magnalia Christi Americana. The life of Mr. Thomas hooker. From A Christian at his calling. From Bonifacius, or Essays to do good. The duties of schoolmasters. From Manductio ad Ministerium. First philosophy. Rational mystery of Godliness. Ways to do good. On college love affairs. On poetry. On literary style. On music. Original sermons. Meeting popular ingratitude / Cotton Mather -- From Diary. An act of friendship. A students punishment. A dream. Trouble with Indians. A lover swoons. Great Boston fire. Religious problems. Social reform problems. Prayers, fears, and faith. A sense of guilt. Negro slavery. From The selling of Joseph / Samuel Sewall -- The New England Primer. The alphabet. The dutiful childs promises. Verses. Good children must. Learn these four lines. Now I lay me down to sleep. The Colonial Frontier. From narrative of the captivity and restauration. The beginning of the captivity. The first remove. The second remove. The third remove. The eighth remove. The eleventh remove. The twelfth remove / Mary Rowlandson -- From The history of the dividing line. Settlers unwise Indian policy. Contented poverty. From A journey to the land of Eden. Primitive dentistry. From A progress to the mines. Visit to Governor Spotswood / William Byrd -- Education of Indians / Alexander Spotswood -- From A very brief account of the establishment of the colony of Georgia. The designs of the trustees -- The flying spider. Sarah Pierrepont. Personal narative. Nature. Notes on natural science. From The Christian pilgrim. From Sinners in the hands of an angry God. From the freedom of the will. God the ruler of all things / Jonathan Edwards -- From Journal. Early days. Thoughts at sea / John Woolman -- From the history of Massachusetts-Bay. Trade in colonial America / Thomas Hutchinson -- From Autobiography. Reasons for writing. A Boston childhood. Bookish inclination. The New-England courant. Deistic principles. Scheme for arriving at moral perfection. Poor Richards Almanack. Electrical experiments. From Articles of belief and acts of religion. First principles. Advice to a young tradesman. The way to wealth. The sale of the Hessians. Letters / Benjamin Franklin.;A dream within a dream. Romance. Sonnet to science. To Helen. Israfel. The city in the sea. The sleeper. Lenore. To one in paradise. The raven. Ulalume. The bells. To my mother. Annabel Lee. Eldorado. Ligceia. The fall of the House of Usher. The masque of the Red Death. The purloined letter. The poetic principle / Edgar Allan Poe -- A psalm of life. Hymn to the night. The wreck of the Hesperus. The village blacksmith. Excelsior. The rainy day. The arsenal at Springfield. Nuremberg. The day is done. The bridge. The arrow and the song. From The building of the ship. My lost youth. The childrens hour. Paul Reveres ride. Christmas bells. Divina commedia. A shadow. Nature. The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Old Ironsides. The last leaf. My aunt. Non-resistance. The chambered nautilus. The deacons masterpiece. The boys. A hymn of tust. Never or now. From the Autocrat of the breakfast-table. From Elsie Venner, The Brahmin caste of New England / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- I would not have this perfect love of ours. For this true nobleness. An incident in a railroad car. Sonnet, Wendell Phillips. Rhoecus. Stanzas on freedom. The present crisis: 1844. Hebe. Bibliolatres. After the burial. From the Biglow papers. From A fable for critics. Thoreau / James Russell Lowell -- To William Lloyd Garrison. Massachusetts to Virginia. Proem. Dedication to songs of labor. The shoemakers. Ichabod. First day thoughts. Maud Muller. The barefoot boy. Skipper Iresons ride. Telling the bees. The Kansas emigrants. Barbara Frietchie. Laus Deo! The eternal goodness. Snow bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Proclamation to the people of South Carolina / Andrew Jackson -- Speech on the slavery question, March 4, 1850 / John C. Calhoun -- Speech on the constitution and the union, March 7, 1850 / Daniel Webster -- Nelly was a lady. Old folks at home. My old Kentucky home. Old black Joe / Stephen Collins Foster -- From Southward Ho!, Southern economy / William Gilmore Simms -- From Uncle Toms cabin. The slave warehouse / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Final speech / John Brown -- Inaugural address / Jefferson Davis -- Autobiography. From Speech at Cooper Union, February 27, 1860. Farewell speech to his friends in Springfield. Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862. Gettysburg Address. Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Tributes to Lincoln: From ode recited at the Harvard commemoration. The master, by E. A. Robinson. Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight, by Vachel Lindsay. A farmer remembers Lincoln, by Witter Bynner. Lincoln at thirty-seven, by Carl Sandburg. Lincoln, the ideal democratic man, by Herbert Croly -- Letters to General Winfield Scott, Resignation from the United States Army. To Mrs. Lee, Death of their daughter and Cruelty of war. To his soldiers, a leaders gratitude / Robert E. Lee -- Tributes to Lee: Robert E. Lee, by Julia Ward Howe. Lee on the third day at Chancellorsville, by Charles Marshall. The pattern of a life, by D. S. Freeman -- Songs and ballads of the war. Dixie, by Albert Pike. Glory hallelujah, or John Browns body, by Charles Sprague Hall. Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe. Maryland, my Maryland, by James Ryder Randall. Three hundred thousand more, by John Sloan Gibbons -- Tenting on the old camp ground, by Walter Kittredge -- Ethnogenesis. Charleston. The cotton boll. Ode sung at the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead -- From A constitutional view of the late war between the states. States rights. Slavery did not cause secession / Alexander Stephens.;THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, 1761-1783. Opposition to writs of assistance / James Otis -- Resolutions, October 29, 1765 / Samuel Addams -- From Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania. Thoughts on some late transactions. Non-violent resistance. Liberty song / John Dickinson -- Speeches in the Virginia Convention of Delegates, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry -- Virginia Bill of Rights -- From Common sense. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs -- From the American crisis. The times that try mens souls. From the age of reason. The faith of a deist / Thomas Paine -- Revolutionary songs and ballads. Virginia banishing tea. The American hero, by Nathaniel Niles. The yankees return from camp. The ballad of Nathan Hale. Independence. The battle of the kegs, by Francis Hopkinson. A birthday song, by Jonathan Odell. Lords of the main, by Joseph Stansbury -- From Essay on the use and advantages of the fine arts. Future glory of America. From the progress of Dulness. Tom Brainless at college. The quackeries of learning. From MFingal. The tarring of MFingal -- From Letters from an American farmer. What is an American? From Sketches of eighteenth century America. A man of sorrows / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- Letter to Colonel Nicola: refusing a crown. Address to the officers, March 15, 1783 -- Orders announcing the cessation of hostilities / George Washington -- Tributes to Washington. From The Life of George Washington, by M. L. Weems. Columbias first and greatest son. Truth and the cherry tree. From Under the old elm, by J. R. Lowell. At the tomb of Washington, by Clinton Scollard. Inscription at Mount Vernon. The Twenty-second of February, by O. W. Holmes. The character of George Washington, by W. L. Cross -- From A Defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America. Who are the people? Protecting the people. Characteristics of democracy. Mixed government best. Letters / John Adams.;VOLUME 2. TRANSITION TO THE MACHINE AGE, 1865-1919. From Leaves of grass. Ones self I sing. As I ponderd in silence. To the states. Poets to come. For you O democracy. To a pupil. Song of myself. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking. A noiseless patient spider. Pioneers! O pioneers. Cavalry crossing a ford. Come up from the fields father. As toilsome I wanderd Virginias woods. O captain! My captain! When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomd. On the beach at night. Song of the redwood tree. Spirit that formd this scene. Nationality and literature. American character / Walt Whitman -- Folk songs and ballads. The cowboys dream. Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies. Oh bury me not on the lone prairie. A plantation serenade. All Gods chillun got wings. Satans a liah. De blues ain nothin. Water boy. John Henry. Casey Jones. Jesse James. The jam on Gerrys rock. When the curtains of night are pinned back -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Kit Carsons ride. From The last Taschastas. Exodus for Oregon. The Missouri. Columbus / Joaquin Miller -- From Steep trails. Nevadas dead towns / John Muir -- The shade of the arrows / Mary Austin -- The symphony. The stirrup cup. The marshes of Glynn. A ballad of the trees and the master / Sidney Lanier -- From Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings. The wonderful tar baby. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris -- The new south / Henry Woodfin Grady -- We wear the mask. Sympathy. The turning of the babies in the bed / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The mood of the mid-nineteenth century farm / John Burroughs -- From The empire of business. Business men and speculators. Merchants and professional men. Rewards of a business career / Andrew Carnegie -- Slaughterhouse opinion / Stephen J. Field -- From the absurd efforts to make the world over / William Graham Sumner -- Dynamic sociology and laissez faire / Lester F. Ward -- The cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- Platform of the American Anti-imperialist League / Carl Schurz -- From The Education of Henry Adams. The individual as primitive energy -- From A charter of democracy / Theodore Roosevelt -- From the shame of the cities. The faith of the muckrakers / Lincoln Steffens -- Do we want more democracy / William Howard Taft -- The role of the Supreme Court in a changing civilization / Elihu Root -- What is liberty? For a league of nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Americanism / William E. Borah -- People retain right to control government. A judicial oligarchy. General amnesty is demanded / Robert LaFollette.;From Progress and poverty. The persistence of poverty. The single tax / Henry George -- From Looking backward. 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Table of Contents PENGUIN CLASSICS THE POWER OF SYMPATHY and THE COQUETTE - photo 1
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PENGUIN CLASSICS
THE POWER OF SYMPATHY and THE COQUETTE
William Hill Brown (1765-93) was best known during his own day as a witty poet and political essayist. For readers today, Browns fame rests upon his novel The Power of Sympathy (1789). He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to clock-maker Gawen Brown and Elizabeth Hill Adams Brown, Gawen Browns third wife. Browns publishing career seems to have begun in 1787, when his verse epistle Shays to Shattuck was printed in the Massachusetts Centinel. His poems and political essays brought him much acclaim, even before he published a ballad opera called The Better Sort: Or, The Girl of Spirit, An Operatical, Comical Farce, in the same year that The Power of Sympathy appeared. In 1792, Brown moved from his New England home to that of his sister, Elizabeth Brown Hinchborne, in Murfreesborough, North Carolina, where he began to study law with Gen. William Richardson Davie of the Town of Halifax. Brown seems never to have married. He died in North Carolina, probably a victim of the malaria that swept through the area in 1793. His (now lost) play, West Point Preserved: Or, The Treason of Arnold, was performed in Boston in 1797 and 1800, and a second novel, Ira and Isabella: Or, The Natural Children, was published in 1807.

Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) wrote a great deal during her lifetime, but she remains best known for having published The Coquette, a novel of enduring fame from her day to our own. She was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, to Hannah Wainwright Webster and Grant Webster, a prosperous merchant. After her mother died, Hannah Webster was sent to a boarding school in 1762. Her first publications, on political issues, started appearing in Boston papers in the 1780s. She married Rev. John Foster, pastor of the First Church in Brighton, Massachusetts, in 1785, and between 1786 and 1796 bore six children, five of whom survived to adulthood. Hannah Foster anonymously published The Coquette, her first novel, in 1797. Her second novel, The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (1798), never attained the success of her first, although it seems to have been widely read for its advice about womens reading, needlework, writing, dance, and singing. In the early part of the nineteenth century, Foster contributed to the Federalist publication The Monthly Anthology or Magazine of Polite Literature, which later became the North American Review. She would live to see The Coquette reprinted several times before she died in 1840.

Carla Mulford is an associate professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition to numerous essays in early American studies, she has published John Leacocks First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775 (1987), a critical edition of an American revolutionary-era satire, and Only for the Eyes of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton (1995), a critical edition that sets the canon of a famed eighteenth-century poet. She served as the early Americanist editor of the two-volume multicultural anthology The Heath Anthology of American Literature (1990; 2d ed., 1993).
EDITORS NOTE My Penn State colleague Wendell Harris was the first to point me - photo 2
EDITORS NOTE
My Penn State colleague Wendell Harris was the first to point me in the direction of The Advice of a Lady of Quality to Her Children. Id like to thank him for the reference, and Id like to thank Angela Vietto, who kindly created for me an initial transcription of that text. While he was an undergraduate at Penn State, Steve Fonash assisted me in compiling the preliminary list of secondary readings on Brown and Foster. The letter Annis Stockton wrote to Julia Stockton Rush appears among the Rush-Biddle-Williams family papers at the Rosenbach Library of Philadelphia; it is reprinted here with permission of the Rosenbach. Id like to thank Amy Winans, who sent me to the Jeremy Belknap letter with which I begin the introduction to this edition. The letter is located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in volume 30 of the Rush papers; the excerpt is printed with the permission of the Historical Society. Finally, Id like to thank Suzanne Begnoche, who assisted in reading proofs of this text.
INTRODUCTION
WRITING FROM BOSTON to his friend, the famous physician, moralist, and educator, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, Jeremy Belknap reported on August 16, 1788, In one of our papers there is an account from Danvers of a Woman who died at an Inn of a puerperal fevera Strangersupposed to be from Connecticut. It was surprising news, useful to moralists, and it was being printed in newspapers throughout New England. The story Belknap repeated involved a woman who, having borne a child out of wedlock, died soon thereafter from the fever she developed while giving birth. The tale had all the ingredients of a suspenseful mystery, one that Belknap thought Rush might use in some of your moral Lectures to young Ladies. Expecting that Rush would doubtless see the story reprinted in the Philadelphia papers, Belknap nonetheless sketched out what he considered the most important details:
the Lady whose Conduct appeared so mysterious proves to be ye Daughter of a deceased Clergyman in Connecticut. She was handsome genteel & sensible but vain & coquetish[,] a great reader of Romances. She refused two as good offers of Marriage as she deserved because she aspired higher than to be a Clergymans Wife& having coqueted it till past her bloom, fell into criminal indulgencies, proved enceinte [i.e., pregnant] & then eloped, pretending where she lodged & died to be married & carried on ye deception till death
Tellingly linked here in Belknaps account are the womans gentility and her sensibility, both of which would seem to have failed her because she was a great reader of Romances. If a woman would read romances and refuse offers of marriage from clergymen, the monitory message ran, she would seem now to have gotten what she deserved.
This true story about a seduction reveals some of the most crucial cultural fascinations of Belknap and Rushs era. Indeed, the fascinations have continued from their day to our own. Womens bodies and their behaviors have for centuries been the focus of those who wished to lecture on morality and the general success or failure of the culture. Women seem to have become a particular preoccupation during the eighteenth-century era of Enlightenment, however. Many considered that the Enlightenment in America, modified as it was by a certain amount of Christian humanism adapted from the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophers, would produce the worlds best system of government and the best-enlightened people the world had ever seen. Especially as the American Enlightenment was advanced among elite groups in the Anglo-American colonies and then the new United States, the era promised a future cleared of the corrupt and evil past of European monasteries and monarchies, a future that seemed bright with the possibility of an entirely new and peaceable social order. At least that is what men like Belknapa Christian humanist and Quaker abolitionist, who had a sincere belief in social amelioration for all groupswanted to imagine. That a woman of some social standing and seeming moral prominence, a clergymans daughter no less, could fall in this way, certainly meant that something was amiss in her life: had her life been better regulated, she would not be dead now, the moral seemed to be. The scapegoat for the womans failure was her reading of romances. Her story would serve as an excellent warning for other, younger women, Belknap thought. And he was not alone in this thinking. Both William Hill Brown and Hannah Webster Foster seem to have agreed wholeheartedly. Ironically, they conveyed the story of the stranger woman, Elizabeth Whitman, in fictions that to some extent were advantaged by precisely the mode of writingromancesthat Belknap had deplored to Benjamin Rush.
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