t all, on the run. But the rising
generation, both native-born and foreign, to get the full meaning of
this slogan in its far-reaching significance, must have time for study
and reflection along patriotic lines. There must be the right material
on which the American youth may settle their thoughts for a definite end
in patriotism if our country is to have a new birth of freedom and if
"this government of the people, by the people, and for the people is not
to perish from the earth." The prime and vital service of amalgamating
into one homogeneous body the children alike of those who are born here
and of those who come here from so many different lands must be rendered
this Republic by the school teachers of America.

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.

CONTENTS

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

_Jasper L. McBrien_

INTRODUCTION 13

TABLEAU--THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX 19

CAST OF CHARACTERS 20

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS--A DRAMATIZATION 21

AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

WHAT IS PATRIOTISM _Jasper L. McBrien_ 71

AMERICA FOR ME _Henry van Dyke_ 73

AMERICA FIRST _Woodrow Wilson_ 75

THE MEANING OF THE FLAG _Woodrow Wilson_ 83

MAKERS OF THE FLAG _Franklin K. Lane_ 87

THE FLAG OF THE UNION FOREVER _Fitzhugh Lee_ 90

FAREWELL ADDRESS _George Washington_ 94

WASHINGTON _John W. Daniel_ 104

ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Henry Watterson_ 129

SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS _Abraham Lincoln_ 151

ROBERT E. LEE _E. Benjamin Andrews_ 154

OUR REUNITED COUNTRY _Clark Howell_ 163

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY _Henry Cabot Lodge_ 171

A REMINISCENCE OF GETTYSBURG _John B. Gordon_ 175

THE NEW SOUTH _Henry W. Grady_ 181

THE DUTY AND VALUE OF PATRIOTISM _Archbishop Ireland_ 195

OUR COUNTRY _William McKinley_ 202

BEHOLD THE AMERICAN _T. DeWitt Talmage_ 206