A biography of Albert Gallatin, an American statesman and diplomat, from the American Statesmen series. It follows his political career, including his service as Secretary of the Treasury and his role in early American foreign policy. Useful for understanding the formative years of the United States.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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Standard Library Edition AMERICAN STATESMEN EDITED BY JOHN T. MORSE, JR. IN THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES VOL. XIII. THE JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY ALBERT GALLATIN Albert Gallatin ToC Signature of Albert Gallatin Click for list of Illustrations American Statesmen STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION The Home of Albert Gallatin The Home of Albert Gallatin
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. American Statesmen ALBERT GALLATIN BY JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1883 and 1898 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved . PREFACE Every generation demands that history shall be rewritten. This is not alone because it requires that the work should be adapted to its own point of view, but because it is instinctively seeking those lines which connect the problems and lessons of the past with its own questions and circumstances. If it were not for the existence of lines of this kind, history might be entertaining, but would have little real value. The more numerous they are between the present and any earlier period, the more valuable is, for us, the history of that period. Such
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