through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia to Alabama to visit a friend in Mobile. In reaction to Georgia's secession from the union, speaking from his lingering southern loyalty, he commented, "it seems a poor remedy for an unpopular President." He thought the overriding need for "a wise provident government" would bring the southern states back under a modified constitution. But after some time spent in the south, he was compelled to say the people "seemed to be crazed in the fancies of imaginary evils and their strange remedies." Indeed, Tucker's youthful loyalties to the agrarian south had in his maturity given way to a belief in the value and necessity of a commercial-industrial society. Nationalism had replaced statism as the foundation of his politics, and he could not understand why a compromise in lieu of war would not be embraced. Tucker concluded his literary career, at age 84, with his 226-page book, Political Economy for the People (1859). Tucker sustained head injuries at Mobile Bay when, awaiting his ship's departure for return to the north, he was struck by a large bale of cotton being loaded on board. He was moved to the home of daughter Eleanor and husband George Rives in Albemarle County, Virginia, where he died on April 10, 1861, two days prior to the Battle of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the American Civil War. He was buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery. Works Letters on the Conspiracy of Slaves in Virginia (Richmond, 1800) Letters on the Roanoke Navigation (1811) Recollections of Eleanor Rosalie Tucker (Lynchburg, 1819) Essays on Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National Policy, under the pen-name "A Citizen of Virginia" (Georgetown, 1822) This was reprinted in England and translated into German. Principles of Rent, Wages, and Profits (Philadelphia, 1837) Public Discourse on the Literature of the United States (Charlottesville, 1837) The Theory of Money and Banks Investigated (Boston, 1839) Essay on Cause and Effect (Philadelphia, 1842) Essay on the Association of Ideas (1843) Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in Fifty Years (New York, 1843) Memoir of the Life and Character of Dr. John P. Emmet (Philadelphia, 1845) Correspondence with Alexander H. Everett on Political Economy (1845) Banks or No Banks (New York, 1857) Essays, Moral and Philosophical'' (1860) See also American literature Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson List of historians Southern literature Henry Tucker (President of the Council of