What so proudly we hailed: Francis Scott Key, a life

A family of lawyers

Annapolis, Frederick Town, and George Town

Nil desperandum

Piety and patriotism

A citizen of the highest respectability

A beautiful and animating effusion

A useless, pernicious, dangerous portion of the population

A class of very dangerous people

A stormy tumult of feeling

A vigorous and well cultivated intellect

A friend of peace

A particular friend of the president

A rank Jackson man

The prosecutor

U.S. Minister to Alabama

An incorruptible patriot

An alarming state of disorder

A friend of men of color

Epilogue: one of the best men that ever lived.