VI SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY AMERICA _S. F. Smith_ 203 THE REPUBLIC _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 205 THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM _William Cullen Bryant_ 206 AMERICA _William Cullen Bryant_ 208 ODE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 210 AMERICA FIRST _Anonymous_ 212 LIBERTY FOR ALL _William Lloyd Garrison_ 213 HYMN _Anonymous_ 214 THE DAWNING FUTURE _William Preston Johnson_ 216 LIBERTY 216 FREEDOM 217 A RHAPSODY _Cassius Marcellus Clay_ 219 COLUMBIA _Frederick Lawrence Knowles_ 221 A RENAISSANCE OF PATRIOTISM _George J. Manson_ 222 CENTENNIAL POEMS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 230 WELCOME TO THE NATION _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 232 LIBERTY’S LATEST DAUGHTER _Bayard Taylor_ 233 “SCUM OF THE EARTH” _Robert Haven Schauffler_ 234 LIBERTY AND UNION ONE AND INSEPARABLE _Daniel Webster_ 238 ADDRESS TO LIBERTY _William Cowper_ 240 THE TORCH OF LIBERTY _Thomas Moore_ 241 HOROLOGE OF LIBERTY _Anonymous_ 242 THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC _George Bancroft_ 243 A NEW NATIONAL HYMN _Francis Marion Crawford_ 244 VII FICTION JIM’S AUNT _Frances Bent Dillingham_ 249 VIII THE NEW FOURTH OUR BARBAROUS FOURTH _Mrs. Isaac L. Rice_ 265 A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY _Henry Litchfield West_ 285 THE NEW INDEPENDENCE DAY _Henry B. F. MacFarland and Richard B. Watrous_ 296 NEW FOURTHS FOR OLD _Mrs. Isaac L. Rice_ 299 AMERICANIZING THE FOURTH _Robert Haven Schauffler_ 307 PREFACE