Our American Holidays: Independence Day

About this eBook

Editor

Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964

Title

Independence Day : its celebration, spirit and significance as related in prose and verse

Original Publication

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

E201: History: America: Revolution (1775-1783)

Subject

Fourth of July -- Poetry

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74168

Release Date

August 1, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.NOTE
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.INDEPENDENCE DAY
7. 7.I CELEBRATION — THE GREAT AMERICAN HOLIDAY — THE NATION’S BIRTHDAY — HOW THE FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD BE CELEBRATED
8. 8.II SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE — ENGLAND AND AMERICA — THE BIRTHDAY OF THE NATION — THE FOURTH OF JULY — LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS — ENGLAND AND THE FOURTH OF JULY — SOME EARLY INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESSES — ADDRESS OF JOEL BARLOW (JULY 4, 1787) — ADDRESS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (JULY 4, 1793) — EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF JOHN LATHROP (JULY 4, 1796) — THE FOURTH OF JULY — OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY — AMERICA’S NATAL DAY — CRISES OF NATIONS — THE FOURTH OF JULY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
9. 9.III BEFORE THE DAWN OF INDEPENDENCE — AMERICA RESENTS BRITISH DICTATION — SPEECH OF JAMES OTIS IN 1765 — INDEPENDENCE A SOLEMN DUTY — AN APPEAL FOR AMERICA — CONCILIATION OR WAR — “WAR IS ACTUALLY BEGUN” — EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE
10. 10.IV THE DECLARATION — THE ORIGIN OF THE DECLARATION [6] — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION — SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS — THE LIBERTY BELL — INDEPENDENCE BELL, PHILADELPHIA — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — INDEPENDENCE EXPLAINED — THE DIGNITY OF OUR NATION’S FOUNDERS — THE CHARACTER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE [7] — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN CRITICISM [8] — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
11. 11.V THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE — THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION — THE SONG OF THE CANNON — PAUL REVERE’S RIDE [9] — HYMN — A SONG FOR LEXINGTON — THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM — THE VOLUNTEER — TICONDEROGA — WARREN’S ADDRESS — “THE LONELY BUGLE GRIEVES” — THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL — THE MARYLAND BATTALION — THE BATTLE OF TRENTON — COLUMBIA — THE FIGHTING PARSON [10] — THE SARATOGA LESSON — THE SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE — THE SARATOGA MONUMENT BEGUN — MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH — THE SOUTH IN THE REVOLUTION — THE SONG OF MARION’S MEN — OUR COUNTRY SAVED — NEW ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA
12. 12.VI SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY — AMERICA [11] — THE REPUBLIC — THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM — AMERICA — ODE — AMERICA FIRST [12] — LIBERTY FOR ALL — HYMN — THE DAWNING FUTURE — LIBERTY — FREEDOM — A RHAPSODY — COLUMBIA — A RENAISSANCE OF PATRIOTISM [13] — A RENAISSANCE — THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION — SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS — THE MILITARY ORDER OF FOREIGN WARS — THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION — THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS, 1776-1812 — CENTENNIAL POEMS — CENTENNIAL HYMN [14] — WELCOME TO THE NATION [15] — LIBERTY’S LATEST DAUGHTER — “SCUM O’ THE EARTH” [16] — I — II — III — IV — V — LIBERTY AND UNION ONE AND INSEPARABLE — ADDRESS TO LIBERTY — THE TORCH OF LIBERTY — HOROLOGE OF LIBERTY — THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC — A NEW NATIONAL HYMN
13. 13.VII FICTION — JIM’S AUNT
14. 14.VIII THE NEW FOURTH — OUR BARBAROUS FOURTH — A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY — THE NEW INDEPENDENCE DAY — NEW FOURTHS FOR OLD — AMERICANIZING THE FOURTH
15. 15.FOOTNOTES

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