Part 4

MASON LOCKE WEEMS, 1760-1825 126 The Hatchet Story 126

JOHN DRAYTON, 1766-1822 127 A Revolutionary Object Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism 1775 128 The Battle of Noewee, 1776 129

WILLIAM WIRT, 1772-1834 131 The Blind Preacher (James Waddell) 132 Mr. Henry against John Hook 135

JOHN RANDOLPH, 1773-1833 137 Revision of the State Constitution, 1829 138

GEORGE TUCKER, 1775-1861 140 Jefferson's Preference for Country Life 142 Establishment of the University of Virginia 143

THIRD PERIOD ... 1800-1850.

HENRY CLAY, 1777-1852 147 To Be Right above All 148 No Geographical Lines in Patriotism 148 Military Insubordination 148

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, 1780-1843 151 The Star-Spangled Banner 151

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, 1780-1851 153 The Mocking-Bird 155 The Humming-Bird 157

THOMAS HART BENTON, 1782-1858 158 The Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826 159

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, 1782-1850 161 War and Peace 164 System of Our Government 164 Defence of Nullification 164 The Wise Choice 166 Official Patronage 167

NATHANIEL BEVERLEY TUCKER, 1784-1851 167 The Partisan Leader 168

DAVID CROCKETT, 1786-1836 173 Spelling and Grammar: Prologue To His Autobiography 173 On a Bear-hunt 175 Motto: Be Sure You Are Right 178

RICHARD HENRY WILDE, 1789-1847 178 My Life Is Like the Summer Rose 179

AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET, 1790-1870 180 Ned Brace at Church 180 A Sage Conversation 182

ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE, 1791-1839 185 State Sovereignty and Liberty 185

SAM HOUSTON, 1793-1863 189 Cause of the Texan War of Independence 190 Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 193 How To Deal With the Indians 196

WILLIAM CAMPBELL PRESTON, 1794-1860 199 Literary Society in Columbia, S. C., 1825 201

JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY, 1795-1870 204 A Country Gentleman in Virginia 205 His Wife 207 How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men 210

HUGH SWINTON LEGARÉ, 1797-1843 217 Commerce and Wealth vs. War 217 Demosthenes' Courage 219 A Duke's Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, in 1825 221

MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, 1798-1859 223 The Daughter of Mendoza 223

FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS, 1798-1866 224 The First Indian Baptism in America 225 Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America 226 The Lost Colony of Roanoke 226

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE, 1802-1870 228 The Closing Year 228 Paragraphs 231

EDWARD COATE PINKNEY, 1802-1828 231 A Health 232 Song: We Break the Glass 233

CHARLES ÉTIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRÉ, 1805-1895 235 Louisiana in 1750-1770 236 The Tree of the Dead 240

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, 1806-1873 243 The Gulf Stream 246 Deep-Sea Soundings 247 Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon 249

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, 1806-1870 252 Sonnet--The Poet's Vision 255 The Doom of Occonestoga 255 Marion, the "Swamp-Fox" 262

ROBERT EDWARD LEE, 1807-1870 265 Duty--To His Son 266 Human Virtue--At the Surrender 266 His Last Order, 1865 266 Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College 268