Volume 8 of the series includes the writings of Henry Clay, Horace Mann, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, William H. Seward, Henry Clay, Herman Melville, Millard Fillmore, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Greeley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen A. Douglas, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others. Writings include "The Compromise of 1850". ( )