Archives
The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.
A Night Never to Be Forgotten
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Discusses the U.S. Coast Survey’s history and scientific importance; narrates a suspenseful lightning-struck night; and reflects on trees, myth, and nature.
Ode for the Alumni and Ode
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19th-century alumni odes and alma mater songs for Princeton/Nassau. Themes of parting, memory, college pride, mortality, and hope of reunion.
Lines to the Tyrant
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1861 Southern Literary Messenger publishes a pseudoscientific essay asserting Black inferiority to justify slavery, alongside a pro-Confederate poem calling force against Lincoln.
Reconciliation
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1863 magazine excerpts: Civil War narratives of marches and escapes, poems on reconciliation and emancipation, and an essay arguing political economy must serve statesmanship and national unity.
To Lamar Fontaine
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1863 Literary Messenger reports Union troops’ desecration in Virginia and captured restraints, alongside poems honoring Confederate heroes and a humorous essay on the word ‘wox’.
To the Southern Cross
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Civil War reports recount Missouri campaigns and skirmishes. Poetry on crusader/Jerusalem imagery and an essay calls for post-war education and teachers’ conventions in the South.
The Golden Treasury
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An essay on the moral uses of insanity urging compassion, religious hope, and the healing power of Christ, followed by a review of Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and reflections on English poetry.
Voir Naples et Mourir
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Victorian pieces on human frailty: an essay on insanity and its moral effects, a poem ‘Voir Naples et Mourir’ on mortality, and reflections on first teachers and influence.
Fitz-Greene Halleck as a Poet
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Examines hazards and new regulations on household poisons, and presents a critical appreciation of Fitz-Greene Halleck’s poetic style and influence.
Perry’s Elements of Political Economy
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Argues for an organized ‘ecclesiastical economy’ to systematize church temporalities; contains reviews of natural history and Arthur P. Perry’s Elements of Political Economy tracing economic thought.
Shakespeare
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Two pieces: a call to develop ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for managing congregational temporalities, and a critical review of Richard Grant White’s biography of Shakespeare.
Tenney’s Manual of Zoology
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Argues for a systematic ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for congregational temporalities. Reviews works on Jesus and on zoology, defending special creation against Darwinian views.
Childhood of Joseph Addison Alexander
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Biography of Joseph Addison Alexander’s childhood: a precocious, voracious reader who mastered Latin, Hebrew and other languages under his father’s tutelage and prepared for Princeton.
The Sea: By One on Shore
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Index and selections from Hours at Home (Vol. VIII, 1868–69). A literary monthly featuring essays, translations, travel pieces and poetry (Girardin profile, Sevastopol, sea poems).
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