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It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated

McKean, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salt Lake City, Utah.

New York City.

Nos. 54 and 56 Broad street, New York City.

Jersey City, N. J.

pardon, under the 13th exception in the President's Proclamation, if the value of his taxable property were

Louisiana New York City. Sir: Yours of July 4, tendering your resignation as U. S.

Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.

Joseph Casey, Oil City, Venango co. Penn.

New York City.

I am, Sir, respectfully, James Speed, Attorney General Letters exactly as above, were also sent this

come to this Department, deemed reliable, to the effect that operations are being carried on in the city

On the same day there appeared in one of the public papers of the city of Buffalo, an advertisement to

It is also understood here that there are numerous & strong associations in the city of Buffalo, having

their common lead in one of the police of the city who is in full sympathy with them, their object being

An auctioneer in the city of Buffalo, it is said, received, between the 16th and 20th ult. twenty seven

Dibble for the property you occupy in the city of Buffalo.

Attorney, New York City Sir: I am directed by the Attorney General to say, in reply to your letter of

for a military force to seize certain boxes of arms & accoutrements then in the possession of the American

Donnelley, Buffalo, New York, were seized and stored in Fort Porter, Buffalo, for safe keeping—where

property, & the order of the Secretary of War, an order requesting the delivery of the property to the American

Y. authority for the re-delivery to the American Express Company of the arms & accoutrements seized in

parties except the six named by the Distric Attorney, seem to have been poor and ignorant men who were

whatever, but whose guilt consists simply in membership of an unlawful association into which they were

also, it would seem, have been in the hands of the military authorities,—and suffered, before they were

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

how it should be administered, and who were qualified and who not.

, and why they were so willing to give the price required for it.

they could go, and when they were wanted again they would be sent for.

This news was not long in reaching the American Legislative Assembly who were then in session in Westchester

This valuable property, of right belongs to the city of Brooklyn.

I think posterity will doubt if such things ever were; if our bold ancestors who settled this land were

They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods.

In 1660, the population was one hundred and thirty- four souls: in 1698 it had increased to five hundred

During this period, and for a long time afterwards, almost all the inhabitants of Brooklyn were Dutch

In that year, a number of emigrants, chiefly Walloons, were sent out from Holland to Manhattan, under

Francis Bright, who came out in 1629, were the first regularly ordained ministers in Massachusetts.

All around were then open cultivated fields with farm houses.

Would to heaven that it were so!

As he himself says:— "If these brief lays, of sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts

and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn."

Children's Hospital" passionately asserting that she could not serve in the wards unless Christianity were

crouch whom the rest bade aspire. ****** Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were

His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight.

to blow through the long corridor of the canal, which is here cut straight through the woods, and were

When we reached the Concord, we were forced to row once more in good earnest, with neither wind nor current

from about 40˚ 34´ to 41˚ 10´ North Latitude, and from 2˚ 58´ to 5˚ 3´ East Longitude from Washington City

miles the hour without diminution or interruption, in an eastwardly direction, sweeping past the American

by the wreck of the British sloop of war Sylph, as well as parts of the vessel and cabin furniture, were

The force of the current between Oyster Pond Point and Plumb Island is very great, yet it is exceeded

afloat during low water of spring-tides, moored to the quays which bound the seaward sides of the city

Among the many accusations and calumnies which were heaped upon this despised people, there was none

The answer is plain,by the hands of wicked men, and because his works were righteous, and theirs were

Know ye not that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptised into his death ?

But they were not necessary, and perhaps not suited to any other people than they to whom they were written

Were you ever tempted by any devil but one in your own souls? No: you never were.

other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American

Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very

Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial

word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were

actual life, Schiller the ideal Goethe mixes both actual and ideal Niebelungen Lied—scene much in the city

from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

The Americans are in very good repute in China—the English and French very bad.— June 23d '57 Talk with

Canton, and all through the country: A religious building : There would be here and there in the cities

—Away in the interior is Pekin, the great city, the "Chinaman's heaven."

June '57) describes to me a very low kind of human beings he saw in one of the Ladrone islands—they were

They were two in number. About three feet high; weighed between 47 and 50 pounds.

Some contradict it, and say they were raised in this country."

incline to the opinion that they are real Borneoans. * *What difference does it make whether they were

neighbouring mountains, hoisted the inverted red flag to the foremast as a signal that the parties on board were

—Personal qualities were accepted and obeyed:— as (When are they not accepted and obeyed?

composition expression— —but the men and women other nation other empires and states, other mighty and populous

cities, contemporary was with them in other parts of the world, or ages antecedent of them, perhaps

another in methods fit for answering to what was needed.— These other nations unknown empires and cities

.— Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.; Transcribed from digital

.1809 1847 39 Lincoln.............1809 1865 56 Cumming ..........1810 1870 60 Parker, Theo ......1810 1860

Webb, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Wm.

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

of these states that they are to hold sway over physical objects, over armies, navies, wealth, population

Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated

Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated

or allusion to them whatever, except as they relate to the new, present things—to our country—to American

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

. ix).; Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860

for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed, / And that anything is most beautiful without ornament" (1860

.— It was a part of architecture—the temple was not stood unfinished without statues, and so they were

built made with reference to the temple—they were not made abstractly by themselves.— give a similar

1 Slavery—the Slaveholders—The Constitution—the true America and Americans, the laboring persons.— The

meanest of lies liars is the American aristocratic liar who with his palter s ing and stutter over denial

meanings purports intentions allotments and foundations requirements of the Bargain called it of the American

— 13 Well what is this American Republic for?

—In Massachusetts too were very intolerant religious tests.

References to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 indicate that parts of this manuscript were likely written

characteristic Whitman fashion, from fragments large and small, with several discontinuities" which were

tropes, likenesses, piano music, and smooth rhymes — nor of This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass. America needs her own poems

This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s, as it appears to have been inscribed after the writing

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass.

I think if there were nothing more developed, the clam in its callous shell in the sand, were august

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

doubtless the case The The most immense share part of a A ncient History is altogether unknown ,— There were

Powerful, busy, and populous, and powerful nations, existed, on all the continents of the earth, at

busy populous and powerful nations on all the continents of the earth ; and doubtless for the certain

surely empires, cities cities, states pastoral tribes and uncivilized hordes upon the earth.

— 189 the feeling of war and war and justice and who were witty and wise, —and who were brutish and undeveloped—and

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860

The manuscript was therefore probably written between 1855 and 1860, and at one time likely formed part

See, for instance, the lines: "What vast-built cities—What orderly republics—What pastoral tribes and

phrenology, / What of liberty and slavery among them—What they thought of death and the Soul, / Who were

, / Some prowling through woods—Some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns" (1860

It is wh were unworthy a live man to pray or complain, no matter what should happen s .

These lines were present in the first version of the poem in 1855, so it seems likely that the manuscript

It were unworthy a live

These lines were present in the first version of the poem in 1855, so it seems likely that the manuscript

think it would be best not at all to bother with arguments against the foreign models, or to help American

models—but just go on supplying American models Not to blaat constantly for Native American models,

—The best way to promulge Native American models and literature, is to supply such forcible and s p u

.— Life, to both poor and rich, in great cities, is an excitement and a struggle!

very little of the shifts and frequent desperations of of the life existence of the poor in great cities—which

counterbalance the supreme advantages that, ( writers reasoners may say what they like,) make the city

very extreme, against the smart patent leather, delicate soled article, which even our hardy young city

we pass often.— ¶ Then Reader , did you ever notice, the Intelligence Offices, scattered about the city

despair went through his side from him , when he saw that the black dressed mourners who stood nearest were

when they reach one rod from the stoop, and st ood anding in the storm, of not one sound could they were