Part 1

Riverside Edition

THE WRITINGS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL IN PROSE AND POETRY

VOLUME V

Political Essays

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

London MacMillan and Co. 1898

CONTENTS

THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY 1

THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER 17

E PLURIBUS UNUM 45

THE PICKENS-AND-STEALIN'S REBELLION 75

GENERAL McCLELLAN'S REPORT 92

THE REBELLION: ITS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES 118

McCLELLAN OR LINCOLN 153

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 177

RECONSTRUCTION 210

SCOTCH THE SNAKE, OR KILL IT? 239

THE PRESIDENT ON THE STUMP 264

THE SEWARD-JOHNSON REACTION 283

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AT THE AGE OF 62. ENGRAVED ON STEEL, BY J. A. J. WILCOX Frontispiece

MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON 56

GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN 92

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 178

ANDREW JOHNSON 264

WILLIAM H. SEWARD 302

POLITICAL ESSAYS

THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY