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High Finance in the Sixties The Early History of the Erie Railway Hard Cover
High Finance in the Sixties The Early History of the Erie Railway
Chapters from the early history of the Erie Railway by Adams, Stickney, Curtis, Black
Hard Cover
410 pages
Copyright 1966
CONTENTS
Preface Xiii
The Vantage Point. Frederick C. Hicks1
The March Of Events16
I. A Chapter Of Erie. Charles Francis Adams, Jr.20
II. The New York Gold Conspiracy. Henry Adams120
Iii. An Erie Raid. Charles Francis Adams, Jr.156
Iv. The Lawyer And His Clients. Albert Stickney 213
V. An Inquiry Into The Albany And Susquehanna Railroad Litigations Of 1869, And Mr. David Dudley Field's Connection Therewith. George Ticknor Curtis 246
Vi. A Great Lawsuit And A Field Fight. Jeremiah S. Black351
Vii. The Truth Of A " Great Lawsuit." Albert Stickney387
Bibliography405
Illustrations
DANIEL DREWfacing page 20
From Stafford's Life of James Fisk, 1872.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT76
From McAlpine's Life and Times of Col. James Fisk, 1872.
JAY GOULD156
From McAlpine's Life and Times of Col. James Fisk, 1872.
JAMES FISK246
From Stafford's Life of James Fisk, 1872.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD352
From a painting by Robert Gordon Hardie in the Hall of the Court of Appeals, Capitol Building, Albany, N.Y. Reproduced from an illustration in Harper's Weekly, 1894.
PREFACE
CHAPTER OF ERIE, by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was first published in the North American Review of July, 1869. In the same year it was reprinted as a pamphlet of 152 pages, in Boston, by Fields, Osgood and Company.
The book, Chapters of Erie and Other Essays, which grew out of this article, was made up of eight essays, three of which were by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., four by Henry Adams, and one by Francis A. Walker and Henry Adams. It was published in Boston in 1871 by James R. Osgood and Company, and was reprinted without change by Henry Holt and Company in 1886.
The present volume retains only the first three of the essays,* which relate to the Erie Railway. Those omitted have been replaced by four articles published in 1871 and 1872. While written primarily on the one hand to condemn and on the other hand to defend David Dudley Field for his connection with the Erie litigations, they constitute enlightening additional Chapters of Erie.
Although the articles were written separately, they fall into a natural sequence. In order, however, further to unify them, there have been supplied an introduction, a table of events, additional footnotes, and a selected bibliography.F. C. H.
New Haven, Connecticut June 1, 1929.
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