“The Old South Leaflets” Classified
Reading edition
BY REX W. WELLS, TEACHER OF HISTORY, EAST HIGH SCHOOL, TOLEDO, OHIO.
English History.
Vol.No.
Augustine in EnglandV113
King Alfred’s Description of EuropeV112
Magna Charta (1215)I5
Passages from Wyclif’s Bible (1382)V125
Passages from More’s “Utopia” (1516)V124
Letters of Hooper to Bullinger (“The First Puritan”)III58
The Invention of Ships, RaleighVII166
The Petition of Right (1628)I23
Sir John Eliot’s “Apologie for Socrates”III59
Ship Money PapersIII60
The Scottish National Covenant (1638)I25
Pym’s Speech against Strafford (1641)III61
The Grand Remonstrance (1641)I24
The Agreement of the People (1648-9)II26
Cromwell’s First Speech to his Parliament (1653)II28
The Instrument of Government (1653)II27
Vane’s “Healing Question” (1656)I6
Milton’s “Free Commonwealth” (1660)III63
Sir Henry Vane’s Defense (1662)III64
The Bill of Rights (1689)I18
Old Jersey (Island of)VI150
Miscellaneous Subjects.
Strabo’s Introduction to Geography (10 B. C.)II30
Dante’s “De Monarchia”V123
Grotius’s “The Rights of War and Peace” (1625)V101
Marco Polo’s Account of Japan and JavaII32
Penn’s Plan for the Peace of EuropeIII75
The Law of Nature in Government, John Wise (1717)VII165
The Swiss Constitution (1874)I18
The Hague Arbitration Treaty (1899)V114
America—(Unclassified).
Boston in 1788, BrissotVI126
Boston at the Beginning of the Nineteenth CenturyVI136
Washington’s Address to the Churches (1789)III65
Washington’s Words on a National UniversityIV76
Kossuth’s First Speech in Faneuil HallV111
Monroe’s Message on Florida (1818)VI129
Samuel Hoar’s Account of His Expulsion from CharlestonVI140
America—(Discovery and Exploration).
Northmen:
Voyages to Vinland, 1000II31
Spanish—Columbus (Genoese):
Columbus’s Letter Concerning His First VoyageII33
The Discovery of America, Account by Columbus’s SonII29
Columbus’s Account of CubaV102
Columbus’s Memorial to the King and Queen on His Second VoyageIII71
Amerigo Vespucci (Florentine), First VoyageII34
His Account of His Third Voyage (for Portugal)IV90
Explorers—De Vaca’s Account of His Journey to New MexicoII39
Cortez’s Account of the City of Mexico (1519)II35
Coronado’s Letter to Mendoza (1540)I20
The Death of De Soto (1542)II36
The Founding of St. Augustine (1565)IV89
English:
Voyages of the Cabots (Venetian)II36
John Cabot’s Discovery of America (1497)V115
Frobisher’s First Voyage (1576)V117
Drake on the California Coast (1579)V116
Gilbert’s Newfoundland Expedition (1583)V118
The First Voyage to Roanoke (1584)IV92
Raleigh’s First Roanoke Colony (1585)V119
Hakluyt, “England’s Title to North America”V122
Gosnold’s Settlement at Cuttyhunk (1602)V120
The Discovery of the Hudson River (1609)IV94
Captain John Smith’s “New England” (1614)V121
French:
Voyage of Verrazzano (Florentine), (1524)I17
Champlain, “The Founding of Quebec” (1608)IV21
Father Marquette at Chicago (1673)II46
America—(The Colonies).
Southern:
Capt. John Smith’s Account of the Settlement of Jamestown (1607)VII167
Lord Baltimore’s Plantation in Maryland (1634)VII170
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)VII172
Middle:
Old JerseyVI150
The Founding of New Sweden (1637-8)IV96
De Vries, New Netherlands in 1640VII168
Van der Donck, New Netherlands (1655)III69
William Penn’s Description of Pennsylvania (1683)VII171
Pastorius’s Description of Pennsylvania (1700)IV95
Franklin’s Plan of Union (1754)I9
New England:
Rufus Choate, “The Romance of New England History”V110
“Reformation without Tarrying for Any” (in Holland)IV100
The Words of John Robinson (in Holland)VI142
Bradford’s “Voyage of the Mayflower”VII153
The Massachusetts Bay Charter (1629)I7
Winthrop’s “Conclusions for the Plantation in New England”II50
“God’s Promise to His Plantations” (Sermon, 1630)III53
Letters of Roger Williams to WinthropIII54
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1638)I8
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)VII164
White, “The Planting of Colonies in New England”VII154
Bradford’s “Memoirs of Elder Brewster”II48
Bradford’s “First Dialogue”II49
“The Way of the Churches in New England”III55
Winthrop’s “Little Speech on Liberty”III66
Cotton Mather’s “Bostonian Ebenezer”III67
The New England Confederation (1643)VII169
Cotton Mather’s “Lives of Bradford and Winthrop”IV77
The Settlement of Londonderry, N. H. (1719)IV93
The Battle of Quebec (1759)III73
America—(The Indians).
Morton, “Manners and Customs of the Indians”IV87
Eliot’s “Daybreak of the Gospel among the Indians”VI143
Eliot’s “Indian Grammar Begun” (1666)III52
Eliot’s “Narrative of the Gospel among the Indians”I21
King Philip’s War (1675)IV88
Fight with the Indians at Brookfield (1675)VII155
Wheelock’s “Narrative” (1762)I22
America—(The Revolution).
Lexington Town Meetings (1765-1775)VII154
Samuel Adams, “Rights of the Colonists” (1772)VII173
Governor Hutchinson’s Account of the Boston Tea Party (1773)III68
Paul Jones’s Account of the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis (1775)VII152
Washington’s Account of the Army at Cambridge (1775)II47
The Declaration of Independence (1776)I3
Washington’s Capture of Boston (1776)IV86
Lafayette in the American RevolutionIV97
Letters of Washington and LafayetteIV98
Washington’s Circular Letter to the Governors (1783)I15
America—(United States)—Government.
The Articles of ConfederationI2
Debate in the Convention on the Suffrage in CongressIII70
Numbers (1) and (2) of “The Federalist”I12
Washington’s Letters on the ConstitutionIV99
The Constitution of the United StatesI1
Washington’s InauguralsI10
Washington’s Farewell AddressI4
Hamilton’s Report on the CoinageIII74
John Adams’s InauguralV103
Jefferson’s InauguralsV104
The Monroe DoctrineIII56
America—(United States)—Territorial Expansion.
The Cession of Louisiana, Official PapersVI128
Official Account of Louisiana in 1803V105
Jefferson’s Life of Captain Meriwether LewisII44
Franklin’s Plan for the Western Colonies (1754)VII163
Gray’s Discovery of the Columbia River (1792)VI131
Pike’s Discovery of Pike’s Peak (1806)VII174
The Fall of the Alamo (1836)VI130
Fremont’s Ascent of Fremont’s Peak (1842)II45
Perry in Japan (1853)VII151
Sumner’s Report on the War with MexicoVI132
Seward’s Address at Sitka, Alaska (1869)VI133
Northwest Territory.
Washington’s Journal of His Tour in Ohio (1770)II41
Clarke’s Account of the Capture of Vincennes (1779)II43
The Northwest Ordinance (1787)I13
Washington’s Letter to Benjamin HarrisonI16
The Ordinance of 1784VI127
Cutler’s Description of Ohio (1787)II40
The Constitution of the State of Ohio (1854)I14
Garfield’s Address on the Northwest Territory (1873)II42
America—(United States)—Slavery and Secession.
The First Number of “The Liberator” (1831)IV78
The Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833IV81
Samuel Hoar’s Account of His Expulsion from CharlestonVI140
Dangers from Slavery, Theodore Parker (1850)IV80
Sumner, “The Crime against Kansas” (1856)IV83
Stowe, “The Story of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’”IV82
The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate (1858)IV85
Words of John BrownIV84
Calhoun on the Government of the United StatesV106
Lincoln’s Cooper Institute AddressV107
Lincoln’s Inaugurals and Emancipation ProclamationI11
Governor Anderson’s Address to the Massachusetts LegislatureVII158
Wendell Phillips’s Oration on GarrisonIV79
America—(Literature and Education).
Harvard College (1643)III51
First Graduates of Harvard, Class of 1642VII160
Poems of Anne Bradstreet (Selections)VII159
Selections from Various Versions of the English BibleIII57
Franklin on War and PeaceVII162
Franklin’s Autobiography (Boyhood)VII161
William Emerson’s Fourth of July Oration (1802)VI134
Massachusetts Schools in 1824VI135
The First Number of “The Dial” (1840)VI137
Horace Mann’s Address on “The Ground of a Free School System”V109
Horace Mann’s “Education and Prosperity” (1848)VI144
Channing’s “Essay on a National Literature”VI141
Ireland’s “Recollections of Emerson”VI138
Prospectus of Mount Holyoke Female SeminaryVI145
Elihu Burritt’s “Congress of Nations”VI146
Autobiography of Peter Cooper (1791-1883)VI147
Dorothea Dix, “Criminal and Defective Classes in Massachusetts”VI148
The Lowell Offering (1845)VII157
Founding of Hampton Institute for NegroesVI149
The Longfellow Memorial (1882)VII175