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Excerpt from General Index to the American Statesmen Series, Vol. 32: With a Selected Bibliography I cannot permit this Index Volume to be given to the public without an expression of my gratitude to Mr. Theodore Clarke Smith, who has made it. He has performed with admirable patience the great labor in the way of detail easily visible to every person of any literary experience; and he planned the entire arrangement. This volume, the fruit of his toil, has given to the Series a unity, and thereby a value for all students, which I knew existed in it, but which I, at least, had not thought of developing in this practical manner. Before Mr. Smith made this Index, the several volumes stood like a row of railway cars, in juxtaposition on the rails, but not firmly linked into the entirety of a train. Thereupon he came, and skilfully did precisely that which needed to be done. If he did not invent, he at least applied the most approved coupling apparatus and vestibule appointments, and thereby he created out of the parts a great unit, an integral train, so that whoever gets aboard it has perfect communication throughout its entire length, and can at once and easily pass to any section and find any passenger within it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.