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Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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sertion, and though amost friendly, hospitable man, carried in his stepand speech a good deal of the combative spiritand the audacities which he put so cleverly intothe pages of his tales of the Kevolution. In thepresent revival of Colonial studies we may j^ossi-bly look for a new cult of the author of Melli-champe. Another strong exponent of Southern literaryforces in that time was Lawyer Grimke,f of Hugue-not blood, who had been educated at Yale ; hewas, in a degree, a pet of old Dr. Dwight, sharingin some of his horse-back rides through New Eng-land, and paying back the attention by an elo-quent though somewhat efflorescent *. B. K.address (1830), setting forth the superiority ofsacred literature to either classic or scientificranges of study. Nor does he omit, in thosedays of nullification, to put saving clauses ofsound Unionism in his discourse : * William Gilmore Simms, b. (Charleston) 180G ; d 1870Lyrical Poems, 1827. The Yemassee, 1835.t Thomas Smith Grimke, b. 1786 ; d. 1834.
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Thomas Smith Grimke. THOMAS S. GRIMKE. 125 . . . If we covet for our country the noblest, pur-est, loveliest literature the world has ever seen, such a liter-ature as shall honor God and l)less mankind . . . thenlet us cling to the Union of these States, with a patrioticlove, a scholars enthusiasm, with a Cliristiaus hope. This language would have sounded very strange-ly tliirty years later, coming from a literary rep-resentative of the Carolinas ! He was radical inmany directions ; advocating, among the first inAmerica, an improved phonetic spelling, Avhichwould have delighted our veteran Dr. Marsh, andhave given an academic colic to some of ouryouthful professors. He was also a non-resistanceman, out-doing Tolstoi himself in this direc-tion— though his father, Colonel Grimke, hadfought hravely and continuously through theWar of the Eevolution. A sister of this Carolinalitterateur was a woman of remarkable energyand spirit, giving freedom to her slaves, andrivalling the most zealou

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