Excerpted from a collection of short stories found in: The Romantic Historian; A Series of Lights and Shadows, Elucidating American Annals. Philadelphia: Published by Hogan & Thompson, No. 139 Market Street, 1834.
A TALE OF ST. DOMINGO.
There seems to me to be a striking resemblance between slave-holding and volcanic countries. Though the inhabitants may be blessed [...]
Full Title:
The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, And Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and A Life of the Author. By Jared Sparks. Volume II [of 9]. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company.
On The Slave Trade.
To the Editor of the Federal [...]
Found In: The American First Class Book; or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America; and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Publick and Private Schools. By John Pierpont. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins and Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1831.
LESSON XXXII.
Reply to the [...]
Full Title:
History of the War of Independence of the United States of America. By Charles [Carlo Giuseppe Gugliehmo] Botta. Sixth Edition, in two volumes, revised and corrected. Vol. I. Translated from the Italian, by George Alexander Otis, Esq. New Haven: Published and Printed by Nathan Whiting. 1834.
Book V. 1775.
[...] In New Jersey, at the news of the [...]
Full Title: Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners, and Emigration, in the United States and Canada, Made During a Residence There in 1832. By the Rev. Isaac Fidler . . . New-York: Published by J. & J. Harper, no. 82, Cliff-Street; and sold by the principal booksellers throughout the United States, MDCCCXXXIII.
CHAPTER III.
Reasons for abandoning the [...]
Full Title: Democracy in America. By Alexis De Tocqueville, Avocat A La Cour Royale De Paris, Etc., Etc. Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. Second Edition. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1836.
Introduction.
Amongst the novel aspects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more [...]
Full Title: The Poetry of Travelling in the United States. By Caroline Gilman. With Additional Sketches, by a Few Friends; and a Week among Autographs, by Rev. S. Gilman. New-York: S. Colman, 141 Nassau Street, 1838.
Baltimore. [1836]
Washington is behind us–its beautiful Capitol, on which the eye lingers in unsated admiration, has faded away; as we leave [...]
Full Title: The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, by Washington Irving. Abridged and arranged by the author, expressly for the use of schools. New York: Published by N. and J. White, 108 Pearl-Street, 1834.
CHAPTER I.
Birth, parentage, education, and early life of Columbus.
1. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, or Columbo, as the name is written in Italian, was [...]
Domestic Manners of the Americans. By Mrs. Trollope.
Vol I.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1832. Chapter II.
New Orleans – Society – Creoles and Quandroons – Voyage up the Mississipppi. On first touching the soil of a new land, of a new continent, of a new world, it is impossible not to [...]
Full Title: The American first class book; or, exercises in reading and recitation: selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America: and designed for the use of the highest class in publick and private schools. By John Pierpont, Minister of Hollis-street Church, Boston: Author of Airs of Palestine, &c. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, [...]
