I think during the Gold Rush and the Civil War period people were a bit mad.

Perhaps the most turbulent times in American History

The Gettysburg Address though looks like a manifesto of the future

Are we to become a great nation?

It seems that the bells of true freedom may be ringing

And lastly Walt Witman is now long gone...

Good bye and so long...

My atoms

Are not like yours exactly

Sure "Leaves of Grass" Is Great

Though I don't need one man

One Twain

One Dickens

One Tennyson

Bosh!!!!