Copyright, 1848, 1866, 1876, 1885, 1890,
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Copyright, 1894,

BY MABEL LOWELL BURNETT.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

No. I.-A LETTER FROM MR. EZEKIEL BIGLOW

OF JAALAM TO THE HON. JOSEPH T. BUCK-

INGHAM, EDITOR OF THE

INCLOSING A POEM OF HIS

BIGLOW

BOSTON COURIER,

SON, MR. HOSEA

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No. II.A LETTER FROM MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO

THE HON. J. T. BUCKINGHAM, EDITOR OF THE

BOSTON COURIER, COVERING A LETTER FROM

MR. B. SAWIN, PRIVATE IN THE MASSACHU-

SETTS REGIMENT

No. III. - WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS

No. IV. - REMARKS OF INCREASE D. O'PHACE,

ESQUIRE, AT AN EXTRUMPERY CAUCUS IN

STATE STREET, REPORTED BY MR. H. BIG-

No. V. — THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT. SOT TO

-

A NUSRY RHYME.

No. VI.

-

THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED

71

87

. 119

. 129

No. VII. A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE FOR

THE PRESIDENCY IN ANSWER TO SUTTIN

QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY MR. HOSEA BIG-

LOW, INCLOSED IN A NOTE FROM MR. BIGLOW

TO S. H. GAY, ESQ., EDITOR OF THE NA-

TIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD.

No. VIII. - A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN,

No. IX.

-

139

- A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ. 173

No. II.

-

- MASON AND SLIDELL: A YANKEE IDYLL 320

No. III. - BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN, ESQ., TO MR.

No. IV. - A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS IN SECRET

SESSION

388

No. V. SPEECH OF HON. PRESERVED DOE IN

SECRET CAUCUS

No. VI.

405

SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE

426

MELIBEUS-HIPPONAX

THE BIGLOW PAPERS

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,
NOTES, GLOSSARY, AND

COPIOUS INDEX

BY

HOMER WILBUR, A. M.

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE)
MEMBER OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED, AND

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

(for which see page 13.)

The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.

Quarles's Emblems, B. II. E. 8

Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.

Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. § 1