THE HOLLANDER AS AN AMERICAN _Theodore Roosevelt_ 212

THE ADOPTED CITIZEN _Ulysses S. Grant_ 217

OUR NAVY _Hampton L. Carson_ 220

THE PATRIOTISM OF PEACE _William J. Bryan_ 232

A PLEA FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE _George W. Norris_ 238

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS _Abraham Lincoln_ 255

NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION _Woodrow Wilson_ 256

POETRY OF PATRIOTISM

CONCORD HYMN _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 261

WARREN'S ADDRESS _John Pierpont_ 262

PATRIOTISM _Sir Walter Scott_ 263

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 263

MY COUNTRY _Samuel F. Smith_ 265

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

LIBERTY TREE _Thomas Paine_ 272

THE RISING IN 1776 _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 274

AMERICA _Bayard Taylor_ 278

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

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. G