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(1801-1839)
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Editor/Trans.
Lawrence H. White, ed.
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First Pub. Date
1834
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Publisher/Edition
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc.LibertyPress 
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Pub. Date
1984
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Comments
Essays first published 1834-1837.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| Cover Table of Contents |
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| Foreword by Lawrence H. White | |
| PART I The Doctrine of Equal Rights | |
| I.1 True Functions of Government | |
| I.2 The Reserved Rights of the People | |
| I.3 Objects of the Evening Post | |
| I.4 Reply to the Charge of Lunacy | |
| I.5 The Legislation of Congress | |
| I.6 Religious Intolerance | |
| I.7 Direct Taxation | |
| I.8 The Course of the Evening Post | |
| I.9 Chief Justice Marshall | |
| I.10 Prefatory Remarks | |
| I.11 The Sister Doctrines | |
| I.12 The True Theory of Taxation | |
| I.13 Strict Construction | |
| I.14 Legislative Indemnity for Losses from Mobs | |
| I.15 The Despotism of the Majority | |
| I.16 Morals of Legislation | |
| I.17 The Morals of Politics | |
| PART II Separation of Bank and State | |
| II.1 Bank of United States | |
| II.2 Small Note Circulation | |
| II.3 The Monopoly Banking System | |
| II.4 Uncurrent Bank Notes | |
| II.5 Fancy Cities | |
| II.6 Causes of Financial Distress | |
| II.7 Why Is Flour So Dear? | |
| II.8 Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents | |
| II.9 Strictures on the Late Message | |
| II.10 The Value of Money | |
| II.11 The Way to Cheapen Flour | |
| II.12 The Money Market and Nicholas Biddle | |
| II.13 The Pressure, the Cause of it, and the Remedy | |
| II.14 Connexion of State with Banking | |
| II.15 The Crisis | |
| II.16 The Bankrupt Banks | |
| II.17 What We Must Do, and What We Must Not | |
| II.18 The Foresight of Individual Enterprise | |
| II.19 The Safety Fund Bubble | |
| II.20 Separation of Bank and State | |
| II.21 The Remedy for Broken Banks | |
| II.22 "Blest Paper Credit" | |
| II.23 Questions and Answers | |
| II.24 The True and Natural System | |
| II.25 The Bugbear of the Bank Democrats | |
| II.26 Bank and State | |
| II.27 Theory and Practice | |
| II.28 Separation of Bank and State | |
| II.29 "Specie Basis" | |
| II.30 The Natural System | |
| II.31 The Credit System and the Aristocracy | |
| II.32 The Divorce of Politicks and Banking | |
| PART III Abolition Insolence | |
| III.1 Riot at the Chatham-Street Chapel | |
| III.2 Governor McDuffie's Message | |
| III.3 The Abolitionists | |
| III.4 Reward for Arthur Tappan | |
| III.5 The Anti-Slavery Society | |
| III.6 Abolitionists | |
| III.7 Slavery No Evil | |
| III.8 Progress of Fanaticism | |
| III.9 An Argument Against Abolition Refuted | |
| III.10 Commencement of the Administration of Martin Van Buren | |
| III.11 The Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point | |
| III.12 "Abolition Insolence" | |
| PART IV The Division of Political Classes | |
| IV.1 Despotism of Andrew Jackson | |
| IV.2 The Division of Parties | |
| IV.3 Rich and Poor | |
| IV.4 The Street of the Palaces | |
| IV.5 American Nobility | |
| IV.6 The Inequality of Human Condition | |
| IV.7 A Bad Beginning | |
| IV.8 The Whig Embassy to Washington, and Its Result | |
| IV.9 Right Views Among the Right Sort of People | |
| IV.10 Newspaper Nominations | |
| IV.11 Foreign "Paupers" | |
| PART V The Principles of Free Trade | |
| V.1 Monopolies: I | |
| V.2 "A Little Free-Trade Crazy" | |
| V.3 Asylum for Insane Paupers | |
| V.4 Monopolies: II | |
| V.5 Revolutionary Pensioners | |
| V.6 Joint-Stock Partnership Law | |
| V.7 The Ferry Monopoly | |
| V.8 Free Trade Post Office | |
| V.9 Stock Gambling | |
| V.10 Weighmaster General | |
| V.11 State Prison Monopoly | |
| V.12 Corporation Property | |
| V.13 Regulation of Coal | |
| V.14 Free Ferries and an Agrarian Law | |
| V.15 Thanksgiving Day | |
| V.16 Municipal Docks | |
| V.17 Associated Effort | |
| V.18 The Coal Question | |
| V.19 The Corporation Question | |
| V.20 Free Trade Weights and Measures | |
| V.21 Associated Effort | |
| V.22 Sale of Publick Lands | |
| V.23 Manacles Instead of Gyves | |
| V.24 The Meaning of Free Trade | |
| V.25 Gambling Laws | |
| V.26 Free Trade Post Office | |
| V.27 Free Trade, Taxes, and Subsidies | |
| V.28 Meek and Gentle with These Butchers | |
| V.29 The Cause of High Prices, and the Rights of Combination | |
| V.30 Omnipotence of the Legislature | |
| PART VI Literary Property | |
| VI.1 Rights of Authors | |
| VI.2 The Rights of Authors | |
| VI.3 Right of Property in the Fruits of Intellectual Labour | |
| Footnotes | |
| About the Book and Author | |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.