166
Official Patronage 167

NATHANIEL BEVERLEY TUCKER, 1784-1851 167
The Partisan Leader 168

DAVID CROCKETT, 1786-1836 173
Spelling and Grammar: Prologue To His Autobiography 173
On a Bear-hunt 175
Motto: Be Sure You Are Right 178

RICHARD HENRY WILDE, 1789-1847 178
My Life Is Like the Summer Rose 179

AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET, 1790-1870 180
Ned Brace at Church 180
A Sage Conversation 182

ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE, 1791-1839 185
State Sovereignty and Liberty 185

SAM HOUSTON, 1793-1863 189
Cause of the Texan War of Independence 190
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 193
How To Deal With the Indians 196

WILLIAM CAMPBELL PRESTON, 1794-1860 199
Literary Society in Columbia, S. C., 1825 201

JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY, 1795-1870 204
A Country Gentleman in Virginia 205
His Wife 207
How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men 210

HUGH SWINTON LEGARE, 1797-1843 217
Commerce and Wealth vs. War 217
Demosthenes' Courage 219
A Duke's Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina,
and Georgia, in 1825 221

MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, 1798-1859 223
The Daughter of Mendoza 223

FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS, 1798-1866 224
The First Indian Baptism in America 225
Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America 226
The Lost Colony of Roano