The suggestions and information herein offered are, at their best, only
random notes. No special plan, or classification, will be followed by
the writer; his sole aim being to include only what is absolutely worthy
and "authoritative."
THE AMERICAN CONFLICT:--A History of the Great Rebellion in the United
States of America, 1860-64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results. Intended
to exhibit especially its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and
Progress of American opinion respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the
close of the War for the Union. By Horace Greeley. Illustrated, 2
volumes. pp. 648, 679. Hartford: O.D. Case and Company.
This work was composed, with the aid of an amanuensis, in the early
hours of the morning, before the beginning of the editorial tasks of
each day. Mr. Greeley's long connection with the _Tribune_, as its
editor-in-chief, tended to make him more familiar with American politics
from 1830 to 1860 than almost any other of his contemporaries, and when
he proposed to himself to write the history of the American civil war,
he could justly claim to have full knowledge of the _causes_ which
had led to it.
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