SUGGESTIONS. The work of reconstruction of Southern States necessarily continued, and called for action by President Hayes. Pages 4394. 4410, 4445. The tariff question became especially prominent during Hayes' administration. Pages 4422, 4511. As a forerunner of the free silver agitation, the Bland-Allison Act was passed in 1878. (See Bland-Allison Act, with references, Encyclopedic Index. Also see Bland Dollar, Encyclopedic Index.) Read President Hayes' views on the question of refunding the national debt. Page 4589. (See Refunding. Encyclopedic Index.) Read Hayes' Foreign Policy. Pages 4418, 4420. NOTE. For further suggestions on Hayes' administration see Hayes, Rutherford B., Encyclopedic Index. By reading the Foreign Policy of each President, and by scanning the messages as to the state of the nation, a thorough knowledge of the history of the United States will be acquired from the most authentic sources; because, as has been said, "Each President reviews the past, depicts the present and forecasts the future of the nation." 4592-B James A. Garfield March 4, 1881, to September 19, 1881 SEE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX. The Encyclopedic Index is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key that unlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arranged brief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the United States. Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subject referred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each article the official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that you may readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information. Next to the possession of knowledge is the ability to turn at will to where knowledge is to be found. |