OF

POLITICAL SCIENCE,

POLITICAL ECONOMY,

AND OF THE

POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY THE BEST AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN WRITERS.

EDITED BY

JOHN J. LALOR.

VOL. III.

OATH ZOLLVEREIN.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES E. MERRILL & CO.

1888.

Among the Writers of the Articles in the Three Volumes,
are the following:

EDWARD ATKINSON, Boston, Mass.

MAX. EBERHARDT, Counselor-at-Law, Chicago. BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Member of the In- LEON FAUCHER, Member of the Institute of stitute of France. France.

FREDERICK BASTIAT, the famous French Econ- HENRY FAWCETT, M. P., Professor of Political omist.

HENRI BAUDRILLART, Member of the Institute of
France.

MAURICE BLOCK, Statistician, Political Economist
and Publicist, Editor of the Dictionnaire Gén-
éral de la Politique, Paris.

Economy at the University of Cambridge; at present, Postmaster General of Great Britain. GASPAR FINALI, Ex-Minister, Italy.

JOHN FISKE, Cambridge, Mass.
WORTHINGTON C. FORD, Brooklyn, N. Y.
L. FOUBERT, Chef de division, France.

J. C. BLUNTSCHLI, one of the editors of Blunt- JOSEPH GARNIER, Professor of Political Econschli & Brater's Staatswörterbuch.

GEROLAMO BOCCARDO, Editor of the Dizionario
Universale di Economia Politica e di Commercio,
Italy.

JACQUES DE BOISJOSLIN, Paris, France.

omy, Member of the Institute of France. HENRY GEORGE, Author of "Progress and Poverty," New York.

D. C. GILMAN, President of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

ALBERT S. BOLLES, Author of "History of Amer- E. L. GODKIN, Editor New York Nation.

ican Finance," Philadelphia, Pa. GASTON DE BOURGE, Advocate, Paris, France. R. R. BOWKER, New York.

T. T. BRYCE, New Haven, Conn.

HORATIO BURCHARD, Director of the Mint, Washington, D. C.

EDWARD CARY, New York.

E. CAUCHY, Member of the Institute of France.
EMILE CHEDIEU, Advocate, France.

G. BROWN GOODE, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.

LOUIS GOTTARD, Publicist, France.

GEORGE WALTON GREEN, Counselor-at-Law, New
York.

JULES GRENIER, Publicist, France.

W. E. GRIFFIS, Author of "The Mikado's Empire,” Schenectady, N. Y.

F. P. G. GUIZOT, France.

ARTHUR T. HADLEY, Instructor in Political
Science, Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

A. E. CHERBULIEZ, Political Economist, contrib-
utor to the Dictionnaire de l'Economie Politique.
JOHN W. CLAMPITT, Counselor-at-Law, Chicago. | J. B. HAMILTON, Surgeon General U. S. Marine
AMBROISE CLEMENT, the distinguished French
Economist.

JAMES F. COLBY, Counselor-at-Law, New Haven,
Conn.

ROYER-COLLARD, Professor of the Faculté de
Droit, Paris.

EUSTACE CONWAY, Counselor-at-Law, New York.
THOS. M. COOLEY, Author of "Constitutional
Limitations," etc., etc., Judge of the Supreme
Court of Michigan.

CHAS. COQUELIN, one of the Editors of the Dic-
tionnaire de l'Economie Politique, France.
C. COWLEY.

COURCELLE-SENEUIL, Paris, France.

E. H. CROSBY, Counselor-at-Law, New York.

J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS, Assistant Secretary of
State, Washington, D. C.

Hospital, Washington, D. C.

FAUSTIN HÉLIE, Member of the Institute of
France.

XAVIER HEUSCHLING, Minister of the Interior,.
Brussels, Belgium.

J. E. HORN, Writer on Finance, Member of the
Hungarian Parliament.

FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, Washington, D. C.
EDWARD S. ISHAM, Counselor-at-Law, Chicago,

Ill.

E. J. JAMES, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

JOHN A. JAMESON, Author of "The Constitutional Convention," Chicago, Ill.

PAUL JANET, Member of the Institute of France. ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton College, N. J.

DELABARRE-DUPARCQ, Director at the Military JOHN JOHNSTON, Banker, Milwaukee, Wis.

School of St. Cyr, France.

CHARLES DUNOYER, France.

JULES DUVAL, Publicist, France.

CL. DUVERNOIS, French Ex-Minister.

JOHN J. KNOx, Comptroller of the Currency,
Washington, D. C.

GUSTAVE KOERNER, Ex-Governor of Illinois.
CHAS. LAVOLLÉE, Ex-Prefect, France.

DORMAN B. EATON, Chairman of the Civil Serv- LOUIS LECLERC, France.

ice Commission, New York.

A. LEGOYT, France.

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