...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ...understand the words he had been given. And soon after that he changed his name from Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked throu... ... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ...for the years that he lived, they gave him the wisdom he would need to save his people. The Great White Chief, called Franklin Pierce, promised the ... ... was over as quickly as a lion snapping the neck of a gazelle! THE JOURNEY TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE DARK CLOUDS BURST from the night sky and torrents... ... the Interstate Highway, bucking the long, black sedan that was speeding toward Memphis. Arlen Rankin, Tennessee's senior Senator, sat in the rear s... ...ivate meeting meant a 'secret' meeting. He didn't mind the twelve hour drive to Memphis, he had become used to the Senator's lifestyle. Besides, the...

...d States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard ...

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...irginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art. 2, Section 22. 341 Tocquevil... ...t I was on the left bank of the Mississippi at a place named by Europeans, Memphis, there arrived a numerous band of Choctaws (or Chactas, as they are... ...er’s side, *These nations are now swallowed up in the States of Geor- gia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. There were for- merly in the South fou...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...f War received. Thanks for the good news it brings. Have you anything from Memphis or other parts of the Mis- sissippi River? Please answer. A. LINCOL... ...received the following answer from him: We have Fort Pillow, Randolph, and Memphis. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ..., for distinguished services in conflict with the enemy at Fort Pillow, at Memphis, and for successful operations at other points in the waters of the...

...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ... reports (from upward bound steamers) concerning the river between Cairo and Memphis, posted himself thoroughly, returned them to the box, and went ba... ... 16 56 Australia 1 19 Helena 1 23 25 Half Mile Below St. Francis 2 Memphis 2 6 9 Foot of Island 37 2 9 Foot of Island 26 2 13 30... ...st!” At Napoleon, Arkansas, the same evening, we got an ex tra, issued by a Memphis paper, which gave some particu lars. It mentioned my brother, an...

...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ...Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Ka... ...h his ideas as to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Richmond, and Memphis. I do not name such towns as Baltimore and St. Louis, which stand i... ...es of Beauregard, in Virginia; of Johnston, on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee; and of Price, in Missouri. There was also a fourth army in Kansa...

......................................................................... 110 Tennessee Claflin Shope ...................................................... ... burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleepin... ...evolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fathe... ...ing with the Indians, and who Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law And emerged from it richer than ever Myself grown tired of toil and poverty And beholdi... ...orting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, When it was ... ...Anthology Doctor Meyers NO other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And... ...u know why? My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. And I turned to the people and poured out my love to them. Sweet it was to see the crowds about... ...rents, tumbling into air pockets, Y ou Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits, And Tennessee Claflin Shopes— Y ou found with all your boasted wisdom How hard ... ...ns, And the ruins of Thebes. And I sat by moonlight amid the necropolis of Memphis. There I was caught up by wings of flame, And a voice from heaven s...

... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. Relia... ...eeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of wors... ...E MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Decem- ber 17, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HURLBUT, Memphis, Tenn.: I understand you have under sentence of death, a tall old m... ...h day of November. A. LINCOLN, President. Send copy to General Washburn at Memphis. A. L. TELEGRAM TO T. T. DAVIS. EXECUTIVE MAN- SION, W ASHINGTON, D...

...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...as not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving... ...de perpetual, is no wrong. Another thing he tells you, in a speech made at Memphis in Tennessee, shortly after the canvass in Illinois, last year. He ... ...s efforts in your behalf, he is ready for another. At this same meeting at Memphis he declared that in all con- tests between the negro and the white ... ...e he was for the negro. He did not make that declara- tion accidentally at Memphis. He made it a great many times in the canvass in Illinois last year...

... acted against her powerlessness to stop a grisly lynching by becoming an official witness to it. Her friend Mary Alexander made the choice that many people would: she hid herself from direct knowledge of police crime and thus from responsibility to tell about it. Henderson not only took careful note of the crime but located Carlock's wife and stayed with her to offer emot...

..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ...rtant than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or ... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...kers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain’d by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas, Torches shine in the dark th... ...kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand stone, or on granite blocks, I see at Memphis mummy pits containing mummies embalm’d, swathed in linen cloth, l...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ... we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississi... ... as- cended the Tennessee River and thoroughly destroyed the bridge of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad. CHAPTER XXII INVESTMENT OF FORT DONELSON— THE NA... ...ps west of the Alleghanies, he could have marched to Chattanooga, Corinth, Memphis and Vicksburg with the troops we then had, and as volunteering was ...