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Walking With God

Presbyterian essays urging parental religious education and ministerial training. ‘Walking with God’ is presented as reconciliation with God, the indwelling Spirit, and progressive sanctification.
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A Night Never to Be Forgotten

Discusses the U.S. Coast Survey’s history and scientific importance; narrates a suspenseful lightning-struck night; and reflects on trees, myth, and nature.
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Ode for the Alumni and Ode

19th-century alumni odes and alma mater songs for Princeton/Nassau. Themes of parting, memory, college pride, mortality, and hope of reunion.
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Lines to the Tyrant

1861 Southern Literary Messenger publishes a pseudoscientific essay asserting Black inferiority to justify slavery, alongside a pro-Confederate poem calling force against Lincoln.
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Reconciliation

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.
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To Lamar Fontaine

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’.
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To the Southern Cross

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.
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The Golden Treasury

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.
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Voir Naples et Mourir

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.
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