Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. a Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of Brandywine
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The Memoirs of a Preacher, or the Mysteries of the Pulpit (Classic Reprint)
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Then the curtain rises, and this Drama which. Is too improbable for fiction displays its varied and crowded scenes.
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Washington and His Men: Being the "Second Series" Of the Legends of the American Revolution, of "1776" (Classic Reprint)
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And the first great man laughed at the boast of the second. There was great reason for this laughter. Who would not sooner be descended from a King although a robber and assassin, than from a ragged Worker, who can boast no wealth save the heritage of want and hunger? For a King, although his hands are red with the blood of the innocent, and his fine apparel purchased with the misery of countless hearts, is yet a King; the head and fountain of all nobility. And a Serf, although his hands are unstained with blood, and his hard crust unpolluted by a single victim's tears, is still a Serf; the foundation stone of the world, on which Society is built; a very useful thing, but hidden in the darkness, by the great edifice of Wealth and Power.
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The Nazarene, or the Last of the Washingtons: A Revelation of Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, in the Year 1844 (Classic Reprint)
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To Susan's Gimp, rmc merchant and Mutant, who, having through the long course of seventy years, made Toil honorable by an unblemished life, ah untiring energy, an heroic devotion to republican principles, at last, by his rule, constituted himself the Benefactor of countless ages, by founding an institution.
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(Ho !for theN ew Crusade !I twas in the spring of 1846, th...)
Ho !for theN ew Crusade !I twas in the spring of 1846, that this cry, thundering from twenty-nine states, aroused a People into arms, and startled Europe, its Kings andS laves, into shuddering awe. It was in the dawn of the year, when the blossoms of spring were upon the trees, and the Promise of a golden harvest on the fields, that a fiery blast came from the far south, scattering the blossoms of battle over the hills of our land, and darkening the sky with clouds of lurid grandeur clouds that gave Promise of a harvest of blood. In the spring of 1846, from the distant south, there came echoing in terrible chorus, aC ry, aG roan, a Rumor !T hat Cry, the earnest voice of two thousand brave men, gathered beneath theB anner of the stars in a far land, encompassed by their foes, with nothing but a bloody vision of Massacre before their eyes. And the Cry, wrung from two thousand manly hearts, said the People of the Union. We are in danger, but theB anner of theS tars floats above us. An army, twice our number sur rounds us, Assassins hung like vultures, in the shadows of our camp, a Plague broods in the poisonous air, of the swamp and chaparral. Come help us fight with us !O rif you cannot fight, Come, and behold us die, for the flag of Washington !T hat groan !I twas the incoherent yell, of the first American soldier, who with the knife in his back, and the hot blood gurgling from his throat, fell at the Assassin sfeet on the shores of Rio Grande. The Rumor !L ike the hurricane of the tropics it came. First, a small cloud in a serene sky, far on the horizon it was seen, and no one won dered to behold it. Then darkening up the zenith, it shut the southern sky in a wall of ebony, and flashed its quivering lightnings far over the snow mountains of the north. And it rolled on, that brooding Rumor, and it gathered, and it grew, until its shadow darkened theN ation, a
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Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon (Classic Reprint)
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Then followed the passage from the mss. Of the Sealed Chamber, which IS subjoined with some modifications of style, language, etc. Although the Spirit of the Original IS preserved.
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Original Revolutionary Chronicle: The Battle-Day of Germantown (Classic Reprint)
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The battle-day OF germantown. - One of the most interesting historical tales we ever had the pleasure to peruse - Odd Fellow, Md.
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Washington and His Generals: Or Legends of the Revolution (Classic Reprint)
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Allow me, sir, to inscribe with your name, this book of Washington and his Generals, as illustrated in the Legends of the Revolution.
To you, as Editor and Proprietor of the first literary journal in the country - a journal which numbering its readers by hundreds of thousands, has hitherto stood alone in its proud devotion to the American Past - do I with sincere feelings of respect for your heart and intellect, dedicate these Legends of the camp, the council, and the field.
I am induced to make this Dedication, by a feeling of simple justice to myself and you. Your paper has always been, not only the family paper of the Union, but the Journal of Revolutionary Romance and History. As the Editor, you have ever been untiring in your efforts, to preserve in its columns, the legends of our battle fields, the chronicles of our early struggles for freedom, the memories of our illus trions dead.
Your name therefore, by a Sincere impulse of justice, I inscribe at the head of these traditions, trusting that you will excuse the liberty I have taken, on account of the feeling by which it is dictated.
There are other reasons which enter into the Spirit of this Dedication. Last summer, when my good name as a citizen, my honor as an author, was attacked in the most licentious manner, by a band of obscene libellers - some of whom have since made their humble and fawning apologies to me - you did not count the cost, nor falter for a moment, but came out for me like a Man, and in the columns of your paper, whipped the whole pack into their native obscurity.
This is strong language. The occasion demands it. The men who have made me the object of their slander, ever since I published a line, are no less merciless in their dealings with the unfortunate, than they are servile and truckling to the rich and powerful. They would stab you in the back to-day, and lick the dust from your shoes to-morrow.
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The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall, a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime (Classic Reprint)
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of the Quaker City. ,Vhat shall I say? Shall I at this time enter
into a full explanation of the motives which imlnc€d me to write
this 'Work? Shall I tell how it has been pra.ised-how abuscdhow
it has on the one hand been cited as a Vork of great mcrit,
and on the other, how it has been denounced as the most immoral
w9rk of the age? 1 -
The reader will spare me the task. The Quaker City has passed
through many Editions in America, as well as in I.ondon. It
has also been translated and numerons editions of it have been
published in Ger.many, and a beautiful edition in four volumes,
is now before me, bearing the imprint of Otto 'Wigand, Leipsic;
as Publisher, and the name of Frederick Gerstaker, as the Author.
Taking all these facts iuto consideration, it seems but just that
I should say a word for myself on this occasion.
The motive which impelled me to write this 'York may be stated
in a few words.
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George Lippard was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labor organizer.
Background
George Lippard, the son of Daniel B. Lippard, once county treasurer of Philadelphia, and of Jemima Ford, was born on April 10, 1822 on his father's farm in West Nantmeal township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. When he was two years old his parents removed to Philadelphia, where his father opened a grocery and later became a constable.
Education
George was sent to a public school, where he developed so rapidly that at fourteen he attracted the attention of members of his church and was sent to the Classical Academy, Rhinebeck, New York, to prepare for college, and eventually for the ministry of the Methodist Church.
Career
Lippard spent four years reading law, but abandoned that profession also, as not according with his ideas of human justice. Toward the close of the year 1841 he was given a place on the staff of the Spirit of the Times, an energetic, even sensational, Democratic daily then published in Philadelphia. He began his journalistic career by reporting policecourt hearings in an original, sympathetic, and humorous way which attracted readers and resulted in an increase in the circulation of the paper. He then wrote for its columns a series of sketches under the general title, "Our Talisman, " which in character were not unlike some of the "Sketches by Boz. "
When Dickens visited Philadelphia in 1842, Lippard wrote an impression of the historic "levee" held in the novelist's honor. Soon afterward, he produced a series called "Bread Crust Papers, " in which Henry B. Hirst was satirized as "Henry Bread Crust" and Thomas Dunn English, as "Thomas Done Brown, " a title Poe later saw fit to revive. Lippard worked so industriously that his health began to fail, and he retired from journalism determined to become an author.
For his first story, "Philippe de Agramont, " which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, July 9, 1842, the young author received fifteen dollars. A more lengthy romance, "Herbert Tracy; or, the Legend of the Black Rangers, " was begun in the same weekly, October 22, 1842. At the beginning of 1843, Lippard became connected with The Citizen Soldier, a new weekly, to which he contributed "The Battle Day of Germantown, " "The Ladye Annabel, " and "Adrian, the Neophyte, " all immediately republished in pamphlet form. Early in 1844 he began The Monks of Monk Hall, published in ten semi-monthly parts. This story, subsequently called The Quaker City, was an exposé of vice in Philadelphia. Lippard dramatized it, and in December 1844 it was announced for representation in the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, but was withdrawn by order of the mayor, who feared a mob would destroy the playhouse. The play, much altered for the worse, was performed at the Chatham Theatre, New York, in January 1845. Lippard wrote another play, Coro, the Priest Robber, which was not printed; but the story appears in the posthumous volume, Legends of Florence (1864).
In 1844 he began his career as a lecturer, his subjects being what he termed "legends" of the Revolution. During one of these lectures he defended The Quaker City against the charge of immorality. By this time it had reached a sale of 4, 000 copies, and the author's popularity was very great. He was engaged by the Saturday Courier of Philadelphia to contribute to its pages a series of "Legends of the Revolution, " and before the series was completed that weekly's circulation had increased from 30, 000 to 70, 000 copies. The "Legends" were copied by newspapers all over the United States. His lectures, usually upon Revolutionary characters and incidents, became so popular that he was invited to speak in many parts of the country, and became as widely known for his platform appearances as for his romances.
Meantime, books were coming from his pen in rapid succession: in 1846 he published The Nazarene and Blanche of Brandywine; in 1847, Legends of Mexico and Washington and His Generals: or, Legends of the Revolution; in 1848, Paul Ardenheim and Bel of Prairie Eden. During this year he contributed articles to The Nineteenth Century, a quarterly. In 1849 he published a weekly, The Quaker City, which contained few contributions that he did not write. In 1850 appeared Washington and His Men--Second Series of Legends of the Revolution; and in 1851, Adonai, the Pilgrim of Eternity and one number only of The White Banner, launched as a quarterly, which he wrote entirely himself. These were followed by Mysteries of the Pulpit (1852), The Man with the Mask (1852), The Empire City (1853); New York: Its Upper-Ten and Lower Million (1854); and Eleanor; or, Slave Catching in Philadelphia (1854). For several years before his death he was a regular contributor to the Sunday Mercury and Scott's Weekly of Philadelphia, in which some of his later romances and essays originally appeared. Disgusted with all conventions of his time, Lippard originated a philosophy and a religion of his own.
In 1850 he organized the Brotherhood of the Union, of which he constituted himself the "Supreme Washington, " or head. This organization was an effort to carry into effect his idea of a brotherhood of man, and at the time of his death there were circles, or lodges, of the order in twenty-three states. He was an enemy of capital and, in his own undisciplined manner, had developed a Marxian theory while Karl Marx was still an unknown schoolboy. As a novelist he was ignored by the recognized American critics. He wrote hurriedly and almost constantly, and declared he appealed to the worker and not to the literary man. There are many poetical passages in his novels, however, and he really became the poet of the proletariat. He traveled a great deal in the interest of the Brotherhood of the Union, and lived for a while in Cleveland.
In 1853 he returned to Philadelphia, where he died of consumption the following year. His grave in Odd Fellows Cemetery there is marked by a symbolic monument of granite, erected in 1886 by the Brotherhood he founded, now known as the Brotherhood of America.
On May 14, 1847, Lippard married Rose Newman by the simple ceremony of taking her hand, the event occurring upon a high rock (Mom Rinker's Rock) of the romantic Wissahickon. His wife died in 1851.