AMERICAN LITERATURE

FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT

TO THE PRESENT TIME

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND
ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON

IN ELEVEN VOLUMES

VOL. VI.

NEW-YORK

LES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY

1891

34

Letters Written from Jail in the Week before his Execution

36

His Address to the Court, before Sentence