292 The want of engineers. Duportail, Launoy, Radière in the northern army. His usefulness to General The great names of the subject, Lafayette and Steuben. Points of resemblance in their characters Steuben's early life, education, and military experience 293 297 298 299 300 during the Seven Years' War 300 He is persuaded with difficulty by the French minister to come to America His life from the peace to the breaking out of the American war 302 303 His arrival 304 The romantic manner in which Lafayette came to America. His noble sentiments 304 His attachment to Washington and studies in the camp. 306 307 307 His services in the field and his place in American history 311 The state of affairs in America upon the arrival of Steu Defects of the American army in evolutions, inspection, 311 313 313 His health fails. He is assaulted. His madness 325 Josiah Quincy. His studies and tastes. He becomes a champion of his country. The Boston Massacre. 326 Quincy defends them. A test of moral courage. 327 His health fails under his labors. The necessity of send His courage, sufferings, and death 331 Samuel Ward. His services in Congress. He dies at his post. His resting-place. 332 Martyrs in domestic life. James Caldwell and his wife. ing. Mrs. Caldwell remains. Her murder. His Cruelty of the British 333 336 The heroism of our civil martyrs and the benefit of keeping them in remembrance 336 The memory of Joseph Warren and his death 337 338 He enters the army. His services while there. A spy needed. Hale volunteers and cannot be dissuaded. 339 He is arrested and condemned. His brutal treatment and noble death A parallel between Hale and André. Its injustice Greene's advance. Hayne considering himself freed from His execution. The indignation it awakened. Greene's officers ask for retaliation. Their address 341 343 344 346 347 348 Retaliation made unnecessary 350 The thousands of martyrs in jails and prison-ships. Their sufferings 350 A case taken. The capture. Sufferings in the guardhouse. The march to the shore. The Jersey. Tortures of the first night From this picture the spirit of our martyrs shown LECTURE XI. LITERATURE OF THE REVOLUTION. PART I.- PROSE. Revolutions favorable to the cause of literature by awakening intellectual activity 351 355 357 Revolutions to be favorable must receive their impulse from the depths of men's hearts 358 358 The questions that take possession of the heart everlasting 358 writer An extract from his writings showing his method to at tain this object. Two points regarding this extract Franklin's style His humor and satire 66 His position affords an ample field for his genius. His "Edict by the King of Prussia." His Rules for reducing a great Empire to a small one." Extract from the latter The piece written on his death-bed. John Dickinson. His education and success as a lawyer. His first publications. He is elected to the Congress of 1765 and drafts its resolutions. His address to the committee of correspondence in Barbadoes. Extracts from the preface and opening paragraphs His next work "The Farmer's Letters." The advantages of their form and character 358 359 360 361 361 362 362 364 364 365 366 369 370 374 He is a member of the Congress of 1774 and writes many of the papers of that body 378 His error. Refutation of the charge that he refused to 380 378 381 Jefferson's style 382 John Jay's style. An example. Difficulty of finding a parallel to it. 383 Alexander Hamilton. His precocity and early writings. ence Other writers. Otis, Quincy, Thomas Paine, Hopkinson, The newspaper press The debates in Congress. The patriot preachers. LECTURE XII. LITERATURE OF THE REVOLUTION. PART II. POETRY. General character of the Revolutionary poetry. The 384 385 386 387 387 387 lack of fancy. 389 English poetry at this time Timothy Dwight. His services. The estimation in which he was held 390 His "Conquest of Canaan" and "Greenfield Hill.” An His fault as a poet. A lack of vividness 400 rary reviews of it. 401 Curiosity a cause of his success The opening lines His description of the Battle of Lexington Of Bunker Hill and Washington Other extracts Humphreys considered especially the poet of the Revolu 402 402 403 404 405 tion. 406 Phillis Wheatley. Freneau 407 The humorous poets more successful. John Trumbull. His serious poems. Specimen 407 His satire compared with that of Butler. 66 409 "The Progress of Dulness." Mac Fingal." Its success An outline of the plot and extracts 409 410 The opening. MacFingal's origin. His second-sight The liberty pole. The fight. The sentence and its execution Other ballads. Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees Final specimens, "The Battle of the Kegs" and the ballad of Nathan Hale 427 429 430 432 War of the Rebellion CONCLUSION. History the record of man's acts and the interpreter of Comparison between the Revolutionary War and the Every responsibility carries a corresponding right The war of the Rebellion a logical sequence of the war of Independence 438 The two wars alike in origin, in the practical lessons they convey and in errors As they conquered by perseverance, endurance and faith, so we must conquer by the same means 441 |
