Excerpt from Phoenixiana, Vol. 1Whether or not we have an American lit erature, we have humor distinctly our own, a portion of it literature, the remainder some thing else, but certainly humor. The accent of sportive fancy, the turn and trick of drollery, were native to Franklin, foremost among our philosophers and statesmen, to Lincoln, our greatest President since Washington, and to Henry Ward Beecher, the commanding genius among our preache...
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