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American Diplomatic History, I825-I904 (1904). Especially useful is Senate Executive Documents, 47 Cong., i
Sess., VI., 194.
FINANCE AND FISCAL ORGANIZATION
Of special value for the study of this topic are Frank
William Taussig, Tariff History of the United States (i888;
rev. ed., i898); Davis Rich Dewey, Financial History of
the United States (American Citizen series, I903), chaps.
x., xi.; David Kinley, History, Organization, and Influence
of the Independenit Treasury of the United States (1893),
chaps. ii., iii.; Albert Sidney Bolles, The Financial History of the United States (second ed., I884-i886, 3 vols.),
II., bk. iii., chaps. v., vi., xv.; Charles Franklin Dunbar,
Laws of the United States Relating to Currency, Finance,
and Banking from I789 to I891 (1891, rev. ed., I897), 123 -148, 272-293; and Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, 1789-I849 (6 vols., i837-1851), IV.,
V., VI.
THE SLAVERY ISSUE, AND THE COMPROMISE OF i850
Treatments of this topic by honest and competent
writers of keen insight but widely varying points of view
are Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results (2 vols., I864-1866), I., chap. xv.;
Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the
Late War between the States (2 vols., I868-1870), colloquy
xvi.; Jefferson Davis, Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government (2 vols., I88i), I., chaps. ii., iii.; James Gillespie Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress (2 vols., I884 -I886), I., chaps. iv., v. The opposition in New England
to slavery, and to the Mexican War because of its supposed connection therewith, found powerful expression in
James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers [First Series]
(I848), which is of great value to the student who understands thoroughly what the work is and why it was