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50-51uva.00183xxx.00005xxx.00047xxx.00062[Once I passed through a populous]I am the child of Democracy1857

16 cm; The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

and were retitled Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City in 1867.

[Once I passed through a populous]

were even then the remains of an ancient city."

The population were in a state of terror and despair, and hopes were expressed and reports whispered,

Formerly, these were reluctant to mingle with the American population, but this state of things is rapidly

They were met by the Americans under General Jackson, 6000 strong.

—Over one-half of the population are Americans, of British descent.

At one time this scrapbook likely contained numerous additional manuscript pages that were later removed

Sunday Railroad Travel—Proportion of Churches to Population Sunday Railroad Travel—Proportion of Churches

to Population.

That the non-church-going class, even of the City of Churches, is a majority of the population, is a

The population numbers about 200,000. In other words, there is one church per 1428 people.

The inference is, that only about one third of the population are habitual church-goers.

with those of last year in point of numbers, while in respectability of demeanor and attire it far exceeded

The twenty distinguished gentlemen whose names were on the bills did not appear—and to our mind the meeting

Consequently the managing committee had to fall back on local speakers, and the audience were probably

reception evinced the depth of interest with which this ferry question is regarded by the people of this city

of the Executive Committee appointed at the mass meeting of the Citizens of Brooklyn, held at the City

What is now the paved and populous city around us was then of course a sparse collection of old fashioned

York city at all hazards; and this was to be done through Brooklyn.

While these things were under way here, and the people on this island and elsewhere were in great excitement

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

thousand American martyrs!

The population of the State of New York was 3,426,212; of these only 2,222,341 were natives of the State

Of the 652,322 voters, 135,577 were naturalized.

In Kings County there were 18,277 native voters against 14,350 adopted.

In live stock Kings does not retain the high relative position it occupies as regards population.

of the State are church goers; and the proportion in this city of churches is below even that of the

[The Newark Mercury says] The Newark Mercury says, there are in that city, at the present time, some

The population of Newark is about 50,000, and when we consider that many of those who are out of work

have families depending upon them, we can image to what a state of penury and misery the population

of that city will soon be reduced, with so large a proportion of its numbers thrown out of employment

and that there was very little chance of the men obtaining work elsewhere, he concluded that they were

Car Question, after a thorough discussion on the part of the speakers, preachers, and writers of the city

Brooklyn, by general consent, has received the appellation of the City of Churches, and in common with

were habitual attendants at places of worship.

, rather than to the consolidated city; and that the proportion of churches to population is greater

We need go no further than the Sunday car discussion in this city to illustrate our meaning.

New York, surrounded as they are with all their water–advantages, ought to have an almost entire population

Public baths ought to be established by the city, where the people could bathe free.

For all that, the day will come when Free Public Baths will be established, at the cost of the city,

As one looks around Brooklyn, New York, and other American cities–as he sees such multitudes of undeveloped

The tendency even of the emigration westward is to settle in towns and cities—to inhabit or found urban

, rather than to populate rural localities.

There is an unhealthy love for city life and city dissipation engendered in the mind of youth, which

It would be much preferable if less pork and more mutton were raised in many agricultural localities.

would be far less want and distress in our large cities than there now is.

objection urged by the Star is equally untenable—that New York rowdies would be attracted here if the cars were

rowdies with the means of coming here; but running the cars can tend only to convenience our own population

carrying out the view which his Honor the Mayor, in common with nineteen-twentieths of the public of our city

, entertain as to the necessity and expediency of directing the City Railroad Company to place on their

a sufficient number of cars to accommodate all wishing on that day to travel from one part of the city

pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were

The verses became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently

titled City of Orgies in 1867.

City of my walks and joys

It is indeed a fester, a well-populated blotch, an immense raw to that part of our beautiful city.

diseases (diseases from local causes, bad air, &c.), are the ones most to be dreaded in summer, in cities

and makes it a serious contagion, depopulating neighborhoods, and sometimes large wards, towns, or cities

a discontented thing the human soul is, that it has also been said (in whispers, when no strangers were

near), that the reason why the common ordinances of our mother, the City, vital for her decencies and

These pages were transformed into section 13 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

American Laws

Husted, the owner of the cow stables in the Seventh Ward, which were recently the subject of discussion

November, in any year, on any premises owned or occupied in whole or in part by him or them within the city

As several of the owners of distilleries in the city keep huge numbers of cows in stables attached to

But a fire having occurred by which the stables were destroyed, the proprietor forthwith commenced to

, in the midst of a growing and rapidly aggregating population, where from 1,200 to 1,500 milch cows

Murphy We only wish all the appointments of the President and Senate of the United States were deserving

Murphy to the American Ambassadorship at the Hague. In the present state of things, Mr.

Brooklyn was, as we have said, but a village, whose affairs were managed by “Trustees.”

From this mould a permanent one was made, and several busts of Elias were formed, quite perfect, it is

city—the third in the United States, and evidently destined to be one of the greatest in the world.

According to an official rgport report there were, in 1828, in the empire, 828 centenarians, of whom

40 had exceeded 120 years; fifteen, 130; nine, 136; and three, 138 years.

modern or ancient times, the duty which the State owes to the rising generation who form part of the population

In the large cities there are many children, some deprived of parental care, and others neglected by

mental capacity to attend the public schools, shall be found wandering in the streets or lanes of any city

occupation, any justice of the peace, police magistrates or justices of the district courts in the city

The Protestant American people of Kings County will regard with indignation this attempt on the part

the territory, at least of renewed convulsion and agitation on the everlasting slavery question, exceeding

friendly solution between the Federal Government and the other powers who claim an interest in Central American

Of course the Spanish authorities at the district where they were landed will deny all knowledge of the

Of course the reader understands that the present slave population of the United States descends to us

The traders are Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Americans.

From these things they are sold to the American plantations. Would we then defend the slave-trade?

Council are urged to incur the extra expense recommended by the Commisioners, for the sake of giving the city

first twelve miles of the work, to Baisely's Pond, will bring us a supply adequate to the wants of the city

miles of canal are only believed to be wanted in view of a very large addition being made to the population

of the city.

To sanction a deviation now would be to give the contractors the whiphand of the city, and it may be

behold death and destruction, contagion and cholera, and a thousand other evils, threatened to the city

from the existence of a sunken lot away at Bushwick or somewhere else beyond the line of population;

but a great, reeking, stinking canal, extending right up into the centre center of the city, escapes

receptacle of all the sewage, distillery swill, and other abominations, of the central part of the city

It was the move of a zealous partisan, and not of a sensible man, Mayor of a city of two hundred thousand

Nevertheless, in so vital a matter as the sanitary condition of the city, I do not think proper to separate

governing power in Brooklyn, after all) with the Fernando Wood and Bill Wilson democracy of New York city

Is it not disgraceful that this vast and populous city, with all that belong to it—wealth, improvements

One would suppose the Kansian population to be a subject race, serfs, villeins—and their high and mighty

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American

But if slavery is put through under Buchanan, as it was under Pierce, the radical revolution in American

there—to be reprobated all over the North and West—and to be barred out indignantly from all fresh American

numbers) in the lower-left corner of each page; his partly erased pencil note "(finished in/ the other city

removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream of a/ city

This poem, the eighth in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 9 of Calamus in 1860.

The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted

The vast population of the Chinese Empire, the comparative ignorance respecting it under which other

nations labor, and the present disturbed state of the relations between the Chinese authority and the American

Less than a century ago, only about 200 chests of opium were imported annually into China; but that amount

Pohlman, an American missionary, who has resided several years in China, "holds its victim by a tighter

Grand Buildings in New York City GRAND BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK CITY.

We believe that in less than fifty years from the present time New York city will contain more superb

private residences than any other city in the world.

opposite the Park, towards Beekman and Nassau streets, will also have grandeur—the grandeur of Americanism

There were performed the rites—in that city, and among that people, they and the building belonged.

The group first appeared in print in the 1860 Leaves of Grass with this poem as section 1.

On the reverse of the leaf (uva.00023) are verses that became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition

of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently titled City of Orgies in 1867.

as to the comparative philo-progenitiveness—to use a Phrenologic term—of the native and emigrant population

The total population of the State is given as 1,132,369, of whom about one-sixth are foreign born.

The total number of marriages which took place during that year are stated at 12,829, of which 6,918 were

The native five-sixths of the population have only 15,947 children during the year, while the foreign-born

The entire population of Fezzan did not amount to 30,000.

the ruling race to be Berbers, who had dispossessed the original inhabitants, and the little band were

Under the protection of a caravan, the travelers set out southward for the great city of Kano, the emporium

Fields of Indian corn were numerous, and the habitations of the people improved in appearance.

such an event is by no means improbable in the course of a limited number of years, English and American

elected Governor, Rollins, may have gone by, it is plain that he was not elected upon the issue of Americanism

His centiments sentiments in regard to the probably extinction of slavery in the State, were such that

The existence of large cities like St.

Such cities can be built up, and their prosperity created, only by free labor. St.

Louis would never have been the enterprising growing city that it is, but for the constant steams steams

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

Does not the Convenience of the Citizens of Brooklyn Demand the Continued Running of the City Railroad

Consolidated Brooklyn, an immense city, or rather union of cities, sprawled out in different directions

We are not some little country village; we form one of the great cities of the earth.

The City cars are needed for this convenience.

were unfortunately caught napping at the onset.

for many years, of all the most abominable elements of city population, toward the little and large caucuses

Alderman Wilson, &c., in New York city—these now stand as “the party.”

Steam on Atlantic Street Steam on Atlantic Street STEAM CARS IN CITIES.

The Central Road passes directly through the city, and with the changing of engines, the wood and gravel

other service of the road, about two hundred passages of locomotives across the main street of the city

horse-cars there instead of locomotives; but the interest of the city at large points in the contrary

The railroad has contributed to populate the island, and to build up even Atlantic street itself.

But it is evidently not so in New York city.

Having done all the harm he could to the good name of the city, and to the personal interests of the

They seem disposed, in sheer spite (if not stopped by serious public disapproval) to put the city to

This assumption ignores the fact that the Mayors of those cities are intended by the new law directly

unable to speak the English language so as to be comfortably understood by Americans.

principles subversive of society and morality, which now constitute its chief charm to the vulgar, were

The mass of these people are not Americans, but natives of the British Isles.

Their apostles are busily at work in those quarters, and the streams of Mormon Emigration to the Holy City

, via our eastern cities, show with what results.

They had their established organs which defended their cause vigorously and were as loud-mouthed and

Walt Whitman's law] in the composition process, correspond, like [Of Biography], to section 13 of the 1860

version of the poem Chants Democratic and Native American which was revised and permanently retitled

It became section 4 of Chants Democratic in 1860.

In 1867 Whitman ungrouped it and retitled the poem American Feuillage, a name it kept until being permanently

1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf20 x 16 cm pasted to 11 x 16 cm; After undergoing extensive revisions, in 1860

1858, under the working title Slavery—the Slaveholders—/ —The Constitution—the true America and Americans

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of Calamus in 1860; the second leaf's lines

There were no further appearances of this poem during the poet's lifetime, Whitman having canceled it

in his Blue Book Copy of the 1860 Leaves.

.00419xxx.00413Says1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm; These manuscript lines were

revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped poem Says in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

The cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines that were never

appalling statement from an official document, that there are “upwards of eighty thousand females in the city

of London who gain their living by prostitution,” more than four thousand of whom were arrested during

After dark, in the great city of New York, any man passing along Broadway, between Houston and Fulton

—A large proportion of the young men become acquainted with all the best known ones in the city.

Of the classes we have mentioned, now in these cities, how many are there who have not been diseased?

Accordingly the Democratic journal of this city, whose approbation is a misfortune and its abuse a credit

individual receiving it, asserts, that the fusion which has been effected on local offices by the American

for Senate in this district are worthy men, and whichever is elected will doubtless do credit to the city

The most active leaders of the movement, now in office, were Auditor Northrup and Comptroller Lewis:

Saturday we reported a decision in the Bond street sewer case, in which these very men have saved the city

1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesall leaves 21 x 13 cm; Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860

of Grass as main section 7 of Enfans d'Adam, and was retitled within the group We Two—How Long We Were

These lines were eventually revised to form section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem Chants Democratic

.00417xxx.00419Says1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm; These manuscript lines were

revised to form numbered section 5 of the ungrouped poem Says in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

.00417xxx.00419Says1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm; These manuscript lines were

revised to form numbered section 6 of the ungrouped poem Says in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

.00417xxx.00419Says1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm; These manuscript lines were

revised to form numbered sections 1 through 4 of the ungrouped poem Says in the 1860 edition of Leaves

Robert Aris Willmott; with English and American additions arranged by Evert A.

Duyckinck, Editor of the “Cyclopedia of American Literature,” Illustrated with 132 Engravings, drawn

who has been favorably known by his “Cyclopedia”—perhaps, on the whole, the best compilation of American

and we can almost hear rising from them that, “Cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars And, as it were

State Governments, the writer’s idea being that we shall probably elect an Anti Slavery President in 1860