January 1867

Articles

• Capillary Freaks

  The romance of hair

  Charles Dawson Shanly

• An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

  “Statesmen, beware what you do. The destiny of unborn and unnumbered generations is in your hands.”

  Frederick Douglass

• Terminus

  A poem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Causes for Which a President Can Be Impeached

  “What, then, is the meaning of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ for which a President may be removed? Neither the Constitution nor the statutes have determined.”

  C. M. Ellis

• The Guardian Angel

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House

  John Trowbridge

• Pan in Wall Street: A. D. 1867

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• The Kingdom of Infancy

  Walter Mitchell

• The Biglow Papers

• Harvard Memorials

• The Picture of St. John

• Manomin: A Rhythmical Romance of Minnesota, the Great Rebellion, and the Minnesota Massacres

• The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival

• Fitz Adam's Story

  James Russell Lowell

• A Plea for Culture

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Henry Ward Beecher's Church

  James Parion

• The Palatine

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Strange Friend

  Bayard Taylor

• Katharine Morne: Part Iii

• The Contention Between Achilles and Agamemnon: From the First Book of the "Iliad" of Homer -- Translated

  William Cullen Bryant

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