The purpose of this book is to furnish the teachers and pupils of our country, material with which the idea of true Americanism may be developed until "America First" shall become the slogan of every man, woman, and child in the United States.
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS--A DRAMATIZATION 21
WHAT IS PATRIOTISM _Jasper L. McBrien_ 71
THE MEANING OF THE FLAG _Woodrow Wilson_ 83
THE FLAG OF THE UNION FOREVER _Fitzhugh Lee_ 90
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS _Abraham Lincoln_ 151
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY _Henry Cabot Lodge_ 171
A REMINISCENCE OF GETTYSBURG _John B. Gordon_ 175
THE DUTY AND VALUE OF PATRIOTISM _Archbishop Ireland_ 195
BEHOLD THE AMERICAN _T. DeWitt Talmage_ 206
THE HOLLANDER AS AN AMERICAN _Theodore Roosevelt_ 212
THE ADOPTED CITIZEN _Ulysses S. Grant_ 217
THE PATRIOTISM OF PEACE _William J. Bryan_ 232
A PLEA FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE _George W. Norris_ 238
NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION _Woodrow Wilson_ 256
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 263
THE AMERICAN FLAG _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 266
SONG OF MARION'S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 267
THE OLD CONTINENTALS _Guy Humphreys McMaster_ 269
THE SWORD OF BUNKER HILL _Wm. Ross Wallace_ 271
THE RISING IN 1776 _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 274
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY _Francis M. Finch_ 279
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _James Russell Lowell_ 281
THE FLAG GOES BY _Henry Holcomb Bennett_ 284
THE SHIP OF STATE _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 285
THE NAME OF OLD GLORY _James Whitcomb Riley_ 286
Acknowledgments for permission to use copyrighted and other valuable material in this volume are hereby tendered to authors and publishers as follows:
To President Woodrow Wilson for his three addresses "America First," "The Meaning of the Flag," and "Neutrality Proclamation."
To Secretary Franklin K. Lane for his speech on "The Makers of the Flag."
To William Jennings Bryan and his publishers, Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York and London, for extracts from his address on "The Patriotism of Peace."
To Archbishop Ireland for extracts from his address on "The Duty and Value of Patriotism."
To George L. Schuman and Company, publishers of _Modern Eloquence_, Chicago, for the following extracts and addresses: "Our Country," by William McKinley; "Our Reunited Country," by Clark Howell; "The Blue and the Gray," by Henry Cabot Lodge; "A Reminiscence of Gettysburg," by John B. Gordon; "The New South," by Henry W. Grady; and "The Hollander as an American," by Theodore Roosevelt.