AMERICAN TRADITION

AN ANTHOLOGY OF STRIKING AND SIGNIFICANT
PASSAGES FROM OUR NATIONAL DOCUMENTS,
STATE PAPERS, AND THE WRITINGS AND
SPEECHES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN
AND LEADERS FROM 1619 TO 1924

Compiled and with an Introduction by
JESSE LEE BENNETT

AUTHOR OF "WHAT BOOKS CAN DO FOR YOU," "ON
'CULTURE' AND ‘A LIBERAL EDUCATION,'" ETC.

"How is the spirit of a free
people to be formed and ani-
mated and cheered but out of
the storehouse of its historic
recollections?"

EDWARD EVERETT

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COPYRIGHT, 1925,

BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

THE ESSENTIAL AMERICAN TRADITION

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