Table of Contents:
  • The early republic: a sketch
  • The conservative system
  • Authoritarians and moderates, 1835-1846
  • The liberal challenge, 1846-1851
  • Progress and its instruments
  • Political argument
  • Model republic
  • Looking outward
  • The conservative defection, 1851-1858
  • The triumph of liberty, 1859-1864.