TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION to Whatcheer,

Letter to the General Assembly,

Concerning Sleep and Lodging of the Indians,

Williams. 18

Roger Williams,

To the Weathercock on our Steeple,

The Poet,

Variety of Opinions on Religion,

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in

America,

German Literature,

Suggested by Allston's Picture of Jeremiah

and Baruch in the Prison,

Moral Sublimity Illustrated,

The Baron's Last Banquet,

A Visit to Niagara,

Martrydom of St. Peter and St. Paul,

On the Value of Liberal Studies,

Dress,

The Existence of God,

To the Autumn Forest,

Centennial Discourse,

To a Smiling Infant,

The Churches of New-England,
Man was not Made to Mourn,
Plan for a National University,

Mrs. Whitman. 34

Hazard. 36

Hoppin. 41

Russell. 44

Pabodie. 48

Mrs. Whitman.

50

Old Grimes,

On Novel Writing,

Prize Poem,

Impossibility of Atheism,

Paul Preaching at Athens,

Greene. 116

Mrs. Curtis. 118

Mrs. Whitman.

On the Removal of the Remains of Washington,

A Day of the Indian Summer,

126

Mrs. Whitman.

Henry Clay, in the Senate,

A September Evening on the Banks of the

Moshassuck,

Last Night of the Year,

To Switzerland,

Relations which this Country sustains to the

Nations of Europe,

The Fancy Ball,

Brooks. 265

Stevens. 267

Pabodie. 272

PREFACE.

MR. HUNTER has well remarked, in his eloquent Oration, that "the feeling which in the individual is selfish vanity, diffused and generalised by a community, becomes patriotism," and that "the people of Rhode-Island have a peculiar right to indulge in a State pride." This right will be admitted when it is remembered that in the history of the race, Rhode-Island presents the first instance of a State founded on the broad principles of spiritual freedom, without which, political freedom is but a mockery. Athens was a Democracy when Socrates drank the hemlock, and Rome had scarcely relinquished her title of The Republic, when in one of her provinces, the populace shouted "Crucify him! crucify him!"

Neither Greece, Rome, nor the nations of modern Europe had grasped the sublime idea of intellectual liberty, and the glory of founding the first State on this principle remained for an obscure exile on the shores of Narraganset Bay. An eloquent historian has said, “If Copernicus is held in perpetual reverence because, on his death-bed, he published to the world that the sun is the centre of our system, if the genius of Newton has been almost adored for dissecting a ray of light and weighing heavenly bodies as in a balance, let there be for the name of Roger Williams at least, some humble place among those who have advanced moral science, and made themselves benefactors of mankind."