f office there were few, North, South, or West, who did
not rejoice in his election; he had defeated the Greenback pretension,
which endeared him to the East; the West remembered that he had been
born and bred in the Mississippi Valley; and to the South he presented
the clean hands of the regular army officer, and the welcome promise of
his letter of acceptance, "Let us have peace."

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

For general accounts of the Far West in this period consult K. Coman,
Economic _Beginnings of the Far West_ (2 vols., 1912), and F.L. Paxson,
_The Last American Frontier_ (1910). These should be supplemented by
E.L. Bogart, _Economic History of the United States_ (1907), K. Coman,
_Industrial History of the United States_ (2d ed., 1910), W.A. Scott,
_The Repudiation of State Debts_ (1893), and W.C. Mitchell, _History of
the Greenbacks_. The more valuable memoirs include H. McCulloch, _Men
and Measures of Half a Century_ (1888), and J.G. Blaine, _Twenty Years
of Congress_ (2 vols., 1884). A brilliant analysis of the financial
interests of the debtor sections is M.S. Wildman, _Money Inflation in
the United States_ (1905). Rhodes continues to furnish a comprehensive
narrative, and is paralleled by the shorter W.A. Dunning,
_Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877_ (in _The American
Nation_, vol. 22, 1907). A detailed account of impeachment politics is
in D.M. DeWitt, _Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson_ (1903), and in
J.A. Woodburn, _The Life of Thaddeus Stevens_ (1913). J.P. Davis, _The
Union Pacific Railway_ (1894), is the standard account of the early
movement for a continental railroad. S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) presents
a vivid picture of frontier life in _Roughing It_ (1872), while A.B.
Paine, _Mark Twain_ (3 vols., 1912), contains much material of general
historical interest for this period.

CHAPTER III

THE RESTORATION OF HOME RULE IN THE SOUTH

The eight Southern States whose votes were cast in 1868 were far
different from the States of the same names in 1860, and were, like the
three still outside the Union, largely under the control of radical
Republicans. Restoration, after a fashion, they had received, but it had
been accompanied by a revolution in society, in politics, and in
economic life. "Reconstruction" is an inappropriate name for what took
place.

Many efforts have been made to show the price paid by the South for its
attempt at independence, but these have always faile