COPYRIGHT. 1906. BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

[Printed in the United States of America]
Published December, 1906

CONTENTS

VOL. VIII-AMERICA-I (1774-1837)

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS-I Logan to Lord

Dunmore (1774)

II Brant to Lord George Germaine (1776)

III Red Jacket on the Religion of the White

Man and the Red (1805)

IV Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vin-

cennes (1810)

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3

5

9

14

16

19

22

25

V Tecumseh to General Proctor (1813)

VI Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun (1824)

VII Black Hawk to General Street (1832)

VIII Peter Wilson on the Empire State (1847)

JAMES OTIS-In Opposition to Writs of As-

sistance (1761) .

FRANKLIN-I His Examination Before the

House of Commons (1766)

56

II On the Federal Constitution (1787)

III Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy (1787)

PATRICK HENRY-I The "Give Me Liberty or

Give Me Death" Speech (1775)

II Shall Liberty or Empire be Sought?

(1788)

WASHINGTON-I On His Appointment as Com-

mander-in-Chief (1775)

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II His First Inaugural Address (1789)

III His Farewell Address (1796)

SAMUEL ADAMS-On American Independence

WILLIAM PINKNEY-For the Relief of Slaves

79

85

110

(1788)

123

HAMILTON-On the Adoption of the Federal

Constitution (1788)

132

ain (1796)

MARSHALL-On the Federal Constitution (1788)

FISHER AMES-On the Treaty with Great Brit-

JEFFERSON-His First Inaugural Address (1801) 166

ELIPHALET NOTT-On the Death of Hamilton

JOHN RANDOLPH-On Offensive War with Eng-

land (1806).

EVERETT The Issue in the Revolution (1825) .

JACKSON-I His Second Inaugural Address

(1833)

143

155

174

186

196

204

BENTON-On the Expunging Resolution (1837)

EMERSON-On the American Scholar (1837)

231

VOL. VIII

AMERICA-I

1774-1837