DISCOURSES AND ADDRESSES ON SUBJECTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY, BY GULFAN C. VERPLANCK. NEW-YORK: NEW-YORK PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGH- OUT THE UNITED STATES. M DCCC XXXIII. [Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.] MOY WOM Henry Ludwig, Printer. PREFACE. The following discourses and speeches, delivered on different occasions, were printed at the time, and some of them passed through more than one edition in a pamphlet form. Though they were pronounced on various occa-. sions and at considerable intervals of time, they have yet a general unity of purpose, being all designed to direct public attention to the history, biography, arts, and literature of our own country. It has, therefore, been thought, that they might be appropriately collected and republished together. The rapid progress of improvement in the United States has made some of the criticisms and remarks contained in them less, applicable than they were when first written. For instance, the publication of several excellent works of American Biography, within the last two or three years, has taken away much of the justice of the complaint in the Historical Discourse, of our neglect of the memory of our illustrious dead. As, however, this and some similar remarks on other points were perfectly correct at the time, and still apply, though much less forcibly, it has not been thought proper to erase them. NEW-YORK, MAY 20, 1833. CONTENTS. I. Anniversary Discourse before the New-York Historical Society. II. Eulogy upon the Founder of Maryland. III. Address delivered at the opening of the Tenth Exhibition of the American Academy of Fine Arts. IV. The Schoolmaster-Tribute to the Memory of Daniel H. Barnes. VI. Speech on the law of Literary Property. VII. Lecture Introductory to the several courses delivered before the |