"Those who choose to discriminate between the leaders of the two parties of the present time may read the perversion of English history by James G. Blaine, in the "North American Review;" and the true picture which is given by Gen. M. M. Trumbull.
"It would be well worth while for anyone who has been misled by the common errors about the influences which brought Great Britain to reverse her policy in 1842, to read up the economic history of that period. All the facts are given by the radical Miss Martineau in her
History of Fifty Years' Peace;" by the Tory Sir Stafford Northcote, in his Twenty Years' Financial Policy, explaining the changes which Peel brought about; by the economist John Noble's "Fiscal Legislation in Great Britain;" or in Carlyle's "Past and Present." The best summary is to be found in the little book published in Chicago in 1884, by Gen. M. M. Trumbull, entitled "The American Lesson of the Free Trade Struggle in England." In this book will be found the whole record of the condition of England from 1838 to 1846. This history ought to be read by every man who desires to make up his mind how to act in this country at the present time. The logic of events is the same. We are repeating history."
—The American Journal of Politics, Volume 1 [1892]