THE DECLARATION THE ORIGIN OF THE DECLARATION _Sydney George Fisher_ 81 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _John D. Long_ 101 THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION _George Lippard_ 104 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS _Daniel Webster_ 107 THE LIBERTY BELL _J. T. Headley_ 111 INDEPENDENCE BELL, PHILADELPHIA _Anonymous_ 112 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 115 INDEPENDENCE EXPLAINED _Samuel Adams_ 121 THE DIGNITY OF OUR NATION’S FOUNDERS _William T. Evarts_ 123 THE CHARACTER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _George Bancroft_ 125 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _Henry T. Randall_ 126 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _John Quincy Adams_ 127 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _Tudor Jenks_ 128 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN CRITICISM _Moses Coit Tyler_ 132 V THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 157 THE SONG OF THE CANNON _Sam Walter Foss_ 158 PAUL REVERE’S RIDE _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 160 HYMN _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 164 A SONG FOR LEXINGTON _Robert Kelly Weeks_ 165 THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM _George Bancroft_ 166 THE VOLUNTEER _Elbridge Jefferson Cutler_ 168 TICONDEROGA _V. B. Wilson_ 169 WARREN’S ADDRESS _John Pierpont_ 171 “THE LONELY BUGLE GRIEVES” _Grenville Mellen_ 172 THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 173 THE MARYLAND BATTALION _John Williamson Palmer_ 175 THE BATTLE OF TRENTON _Anonymous_ 177 COLUMBIA _Timothy Dwight_ 178 THE FIGHTING PARSON _Henry Ames Blood_ 180 THE SARATOGA LESSON _George William Curtis_ 184 THE SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE _James Watts De Peyster_ 187 THE SARATOGA MONUMENT BEGUN _Horatio Seymour_ 187 MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH _William Collins_ 190 THE SOUTH IN THE REVOLUTION _Robert Young Hayne_ 193 THE SONG OF MARION’S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 195 OUR COUNTRY SAVED _James Russell Lowell_ 197 NEW ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA _Robert Charles Winthrop_ 199