Of special sectional value is W. D. Foulke's _The Life of Oliver P. Morton_ (1899). Henry Wilson's _The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power_ (1872-77); A. H. Stephens's _A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States_ (1868-70) are typical of many others. Some of the best writers on the life and ideals of the old South are Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, _Reminiscences of Peace and War_ (1906), and _My Day_ (1911); Mrs. James Chesnut, _A Diary from Dixie_ (1905); Mrs. Clement C. Clay, _A Belle of the Sixties_ (1904); and Mrs. Myrta L. Avery, _Dixie after the War_ (1906). Mrs. Jefferson Davis's _A Memoir of Jefferson Davis_ (1890) is rather personal and profuse, but always more important than the more pretentious work of her husband, Jefferson Davis, in his _Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government_, already mentioned. A rare source book for the South is J. B. Jones's _A Rebel War Clerk's Diary_ (1866), and an even more important one for the North is Gideon Welles's _Diary_ (1911). Edward McPherson's _Political History of the United States During the Great Rebellion_ (1865); William McDonald's _Select Statutes and Other Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1861-98_ (1903); J. D. Richardson's _Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy_ (1905); and _Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia and Register, 1862-1903_, give the most important official documents and full accounts of public events as they occurred. INDEX Abolitionists, societies started 163; theories and aims, 164; petitions in House, 165; preparing for Republican party, 166; more in politics, 170; and Wilmot Proviso, 170; in 1850, 176. Adams, Charles Francis, fears English intervention, 314, 315, 316. Adams, John, 19. Adams, John Quincy, coalition with Clay, 1, 2, 3, 4; support in 1828, 14, 15, 17; popular and electoral votes, 18; unpopular in Southwest, 21; and Georgia, 21, 39, 55, 56; in House, 66; for Bank, 68, 70, 72, 74, 84; attacking Van Buren, 96-105, 107, 108, 109; and petitions on slavery, 119, 126; for secession, 127, 164, 165; denounces Mexican War, 157; anti-slavery leader, 164; address on taxes, 167, 242, 252. Agassiz, Alexander, 225. Agassiz, Louis, naturalist, 225. Agriculture, methods of, 211. Alabama, and Indians, 8; immigration to, 13; population (1830, 1840), 13, 90; for Jackson, 72; being filled up, 89, 90; for Van Buren, 111; "Slavery a blessing," 119; and Wilmot Proviso, 171, 264; secession of, 271. _Albany Journal_, friendly to Confederacy, 272. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 225. Alien and Sedition Laws, 161. Allen, William, friendly to Calhoun, 120; expansionist, 149. Allston, sculptor, 54. Amendments, on presidential term, appointment of members of Congress, limiting Supreme Court, 16. American Fur Company, 35. American National Academy of Science, 225. American party. _See_ Know-Nothing party.