CHAPTER I

_Reconstruction and After_

TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, John Greenleaf Whittier 559 "MR. JOHNSON'S POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION," Charles Graham Halpine 559 THADDEUS STEVENS, Phoebe Cary 560 SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE STATES OF THE NORTH, Paul Hamilton Hayne 561 KU-KLUX, Madison Cawein 562 THE REAR GUARD, Irene Fowler Brown 562 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, Francis Miles Finch 563 THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH, Paul Hamilton Hayne 564 HOW CYRUS LAID THE CABLE, John Godfrey Saxe 565 THE CABLE HYMN, John Greenleaf Whittier 565 AN ARCTIC VISION, Bret Harte 566 ALASKA, Joaquin Miller 567 ISRAEL FREYER'S BID FOR GOLD, Edmund Clarence Stedman 567 CHICAGO, John Greenleaf Whittier 568 CHICAGO, Bret Harte 569 CHICAGO, John Boyle O'Reilly 569 BOSTON, John Boyle O'Reilly 570 THE CHURCH OF THE REVOLUTION, Hezekiah Butterworth 570 AFTER THE FIRE, Oliver Wendell Holmes 571 THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, John Boyle O'Reilly 571

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