Contents . xvii 795 Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771-1801) 795 The following Lines were occasioned by Mr. Robertson's refusing to paint for one Lady, and immediately after taking another lady's likeness, 1793 796 To Aribert. October, 1790 797 Poems Published Anonymously 797 The Lady's Complaint 798 Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll'd 799 The Maid's Soliloquy 800 Voices of Revolution and Nationalism 802 Handsome Lake (Seneca) (1755-1815) 803 How America Was Discovered 804 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 808 The Way to Wealth 814 A Witch Trial at Mount Holly 815 The Speech of Polly Baker 817 An Edict by the King of Prussia 820 The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life 821 Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America 825 On the Slave-Trade 827 Speech in the Convention 828 from The Autobiography 828 Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771] 876 Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784 886 Part Three [Philadelphia, 1788] 890 Mercy Otis Warren ( 1728-1814) 892 To Fidelio, Long Absent on the great public Cause, which agitated all America, in 1776 894 The Group 917 from The Ladies of Castille 918 from An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States of America 921 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) 922 from Letters from an American Farmer 922 from Letter I, Introduction 925 from Letter II, On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer 928 from Letter III, What Is an American? 933 from Letter V, Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket