Chapter LXXXVIII: Book III: Part I

I. For the political backgrounds, see A. E. Morse, _The Federalist Party in Massachusetts to the Year 1800_ (Princeton, 1909). W. A. Robinson, _Jeffersonian Democracy in New England_ (New Haven, 1916). Samuel Eliot Morison, _Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis_ (2 vols., Boston. 1913).

Fisher Ames: _Works_ (with memoir by J. T. Kirkland, Boston, 1809). _Works, with a Selection from his Speeches and Correspondence_ (edited by his son, Seth Ames, 2 vols., Boston, 1854).

Robert Treat Paine: _Works in Prose and Verse_ (with memoir, Boston, 1812).

II. Joseph Story: _Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States_ (3 vols., Boston, 1833; numerous later editions).

See W. W. Story, _Life and Letters of Joseph Story_ (2 vols., Boston, 1851).

Daniel Webster: The best edition of his works is The National--_The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster_ (18 vols., Boston, 1903). _Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster_ (2 vols., Boston, 1857). _Letters_ (edited by C. H. Van Tyne, New York, 1902).

See George Ticknor Curtis, _Life of Daniel Webster_ (2 vols., New York and London, 1870). For a critical contemporary estimate see Theodore Parker, _Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster_ (Boston, 1853). See also Charles A. Beard, _The Economic Basis of Politics_ (New York, 1922).