. The echo, with other poems. Thresher - 117 Warren, General - - - - - 215 Western Insurrection - . . 242-262 Wieshaupt and the Ilkuninati - - - 247 INDEX. PAGE. Wappernocher, or Maiiin, how taken - - 183 Wayne General defeats the Indians - ^. - 214 Warning to America - - - - 252 W riijiit, Governor of Maryland - . 315 W indhum Invasion of by Frogs - - - 55 Frogs - - - _ , 222. Welch Indians, letter relative to - • - 324 ;?. PREFACE, ^ 1 HE principal poems in this volume, unde^ ihe title of the echo, owed their orisrin to the acci-_ dental suggestion of a moment of literary sportive-4. ness, a
. The echo, with other poems. Thresher - 117 Warren, General - - - - - 215 Western Insurrection - . . 242-262 Wieshaupt and the Ilkuninati - - - 247 INDEX. PAGE. Wappernocher, or Maiiin, how taken - - 183 Wayne General defeats the Indians - ^. - 214 Warning to America - - - - 252 W riijiit, Governor of Maryland - . 315 W indhum Invasion of by Frogs - - - 55 Frogs - - - _ , 222. Welch Indians, letter relative to - • - 324 ;?. PREFACE, ^ 1 HE principal poems in this volume, unde^ ihe title of the echo, owed their orisrin to the acci-_ dental suggestion of a moment of literary sportive-4. ness, at a time when pedantry, affectation and bom-^bast, pervaded most of the pieces published in the4 gazettes, which were then the principal vehicles of^ literary information. Willing to lend their aid to check-^ the pro2:ress of false taste in American literature, the^ authors conceived that ridicule would prove a power-ful corrective, that rhe mode employed in the*^ ECHO, was the best suited to this purpose. A de-scription of a thunder-storm, in one of the Eastern pa-pers, furnished them not only with the hint, but witha suitable subject for the commencement of their plan.^ The favourable manner in which this first essay was^ received, determined them, occasionally, to continueXl^ the numbers. ^- But the ridicule of a vitiated mode of writing was- not long the sole object of t h e echo. The import-^ ant political
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