The Man Without a Country and Other Tales
by
Edward E. Hale
AUTHOR OF "IN HIS NAME," "TEN TIMES ONE IS TEN," "HOW TO DO IT,''WHAT CAREER," ETC., ETC.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1891.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
Contents
- Contents
- THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
- THE LAST OF THE FLORIDA.
- A PIECE OF POSSIBLE HISTORY.
- THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR.
- THE OLD AND THE NEW, FACE TO FACE.
- THE DOT AND LINE ALPHABET.
- THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE.
- MY DOUBLE, AND HOW HE UNDID ME
- THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC.
- Chapter I - The Pork-Barrel
- Chapter II - Where is the Barrel?
- Chapter III - My Life to its Crisis
- Chapter IV - The Crisis
- Chapter V - Fausta's Story
- THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.
- CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON.
- Notes
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.
This story was written in the summer of 1863, as a contribution,however humble, towards the formation of a just and truenational sentiment, or sentiment of love to the nation. It wasat the time when Mr. Vallandigham had been sent across theborder. It was my wish, indeed, that the story might be printedbefore the autumn elections of that year,—as my "testimony"regarding the principles involved in them,—but circumstancesdelayed its publication till the December number of the Atlanticappeared.
It is wholly a fiction, "founded on fact." The facts on whichit is founded are these,—that Aaron Burr sailed down the MississippiRiver in 1805, again in 1806, and was tried for treason in1807. The rest, with one exception to be noticed, is all fictitious.
It was my intention that the story should have been publishedwith no author's name, other than that of C