OF

AMERICAN IDEAS.

DESIGNED

1st. For the Use of Schools.

2d. For the Instruction of Foreigners seeking Naturalization.
3d. For the Use of Citizens.

BY

CASPAR T. HOPKINS, M.A.

"Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shall talk of them
when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up."

"And thou shall bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes."-Deut. vi: 7, 8.

SECOND REVISED EDITION.

SAN FRANCISCO:

A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY,

Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers.

1873.

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UNIVER
CALIFOR

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серуг

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY CASPAR T. HOPKINS,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Right of Translation reserved.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY CASPAR T. HOPKINS,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Right of Translation reserved.

DEDICATION.

TO THE TRUE JDEA OF AMERICAN LIBERTY.

An idea not born of race, not nurtured by prejudice, not limited by seas and mountains, nor fettered by language-a thought not suggestive of hereditary feuds, nor prone to slaughter the grandchildren of sires, who in times past struggled with our ancestors-but an idea born of nature and revelation, educated by the intuitions of common sense, unlimited as the brotherhood of man, inseparable from the highest forms of civilization-a thought which, germinating in the souls of a few, has made our country what it is, and if carefully cultured in the minds of the multitude, will blossom and bear forever the golden fruits of peace, charity, and good will to men-this little work is

Reverently inscribed, by

THE AUTHOR.