Share your thoughts Complete your review. Downloads: 785. The Biglow Papers, Volumen 1. Mencken. $27.19 + $20.63 shipping . Tags: biggest, gut, soul, risen, Greatest, Nation. 1. — James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series. The "Biglow Papers, First Series" was about the Mexican-American War, which Lowell opposed because he was against there being another slave state, which Texas would become. The Biglow Papers | This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. Biografie. The Biglow Papers. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) Biglow Papers, The, by James Russell Lowell, a series of political satire, in alternating prose and verse. The Biglow Papers. Table of Contents