difficulty resulting from the presence of slavery, and the annual arrival of many thousand immigrants, wholly untrained in republican institutions. The civil war has proved that the people of the United States, when at peace among themselves, are strong enough for selfprotection against any foreign power. The thing now essential to Americans is to guard against internal as well as external dangers, to purify their own government, educate their own community, give to the world an example of pure lives and noble purposes; and so conduct the affairs of the Republic, that, as President Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address, "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

APPENDIX.

I.

BOOKS FOR CONSULTATION.

GENERAL WORKS.

Bancroft's, Hildreth's, and Grahame's "United States."

EARLY INHABITANTS.

History. - Squier and Davis's "Ancient Monuments" (Smithsonian Con

tributions, vol. i.).

Baldwin's "Ancient America."

Foster's "Prehistoric Races of America."

Jones's "Mound-Builders of Tennessee."

Shaler's "Time of the Mammoths" ("American Naturalist," iv. 148). Fiction. Mathews's "Behemoth; a Legend of the Mound-Builders."

AMERICAN INDIANS.

History. Schoolcraft's "History and Condition of the Indian Tribes." Parkman's "Jesuits in America" (Introduction).

Field's "Indian Bibliography."

Fiction. - Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."

Poetry. Longfellow's "Hiawatha."

Whittier's" Bridal of Pennacook."

Lowell's "Chippewa Legend."

DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS.

History. Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico."

Parkman's" Pioneers of France in the New World" and "Discovery

of the Great West."

T. Irving's "Conquest of Florida."

Anderson's "Discovery of America by the Northmen."

Voyages and Travels. — Hakluyt's "Voyages touching the Discovery of
America."

Kohl's "Discovery of the East Coast of America" (Maine Hist.
Soc., 2d ser., vol. 1).

Biography.-W. Irving's "Columbus" and "Companions of Columbus."
Fiction. - Ballantyne's "Norsemen of the West" [Norsemen].
Bird's "Calavar" and "Infidel" [Mexico].

Wallace's "Fair God" [Mexico].

Simms's "Damsel of Darien " [Balboa], "Vasconselos" [De Soto],

History. - Palfrey's and Elliott's "New England."
State Histories: Williamson's "Maine."
Belknap's "New Hampshire."

Thompson's "Vermont."

Barry's "Massachusetts."

Arnold's "Rhode Island."

Trumbull's "Connecticut."

Young's "Chronicles of the Pilgrims " and "Chronicles of Massachusetts."

Cheever's "Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth."

Banvard's "Plymouth and the Pilgrims."

Upham's "History of Witchcraft."

Mather's "Magnalia."

Biography. Winthrop's "Life and Letters."

Sparks's "American Biographies: " Vane (vol. iv.), Mather (vi.),
Phips (vii.), Williams (xiv.), Gorton (xv.).

Fiction. Miss Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie,"

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"Redwood."

Mrs. Child's "Hobomok."

," "New England Tale," and

Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," and "Legends of the Old Province

House" (in "Twice Told Tales ").

Thompson's "Green Mountain Boys."

Whittier's "Margaret Smith's Journal."

Sears's "Pictures of the Olden Time."

Poetry. Longfellow's "John Endicott," "Giles Corey," and "Courtship of Miles Standish."

Whittier's "Changeling," "Wreck of Rivermouth," "Exiles," and "Cassandra Southwick."

Pierpont's "Pilgrim Fathers."

Mrs. Hemans's "Landing of the Pilgrims."

COLONIAL HISTORY OF MIDDLE STATES.

History. -State Histories: Brodhead's and O'Callaghan's "New York." Whitehead's "New Jersey."

Sypher's "Pennsylvania."

Irving's "Knickerbocker's New York."
Biography. Clarkson's and Dixon's "Penn."

Sparks's "American Biographies: "Cleveland's "Hudson" (vol. x.),
Ellis's "Penn" (xxii.).

Fiction. - Irving's "Wolfert's Roost" and "Rip Van Winkle" (in "Sketch Book ").

Paulding's "Dutchman's Fireside" and "Book of St. Nicholas."

Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans," "Water-Witch," and "Satanstoe."
Mrs. Grant's "Memoirs of an American Lady."

Myers's "First of the Knickerbockers" and "Young Patroon."

Bird's "Hawks of Hawk-Hollow."

COLONIAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN STATES.

History. Smith's "True Relation of Virginia" (reprinted, Boston,

1866).

State Histories: McSherry's "Maryland.”

Campbell's "Virginia."

Williamson's "North Carolina."

Ramsay's "South Carolina."

Stevens's "Georgia."

Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia."

Meade's "Old Churches of Virginia."

Biography. Sparks's " American Biographies: " Smith (ii.), Oglethorpe

(xii.), Calvert (xix.).