Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative |
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... political factor around which the passions of the sections had long been gathered the tallest pine in the political forest around whose top the fiercest lightnings were to blaze and whose trunk was destined to be shivered in the ...
... political factor around which the passions of the sections had long been gathered the tallest pine in the political forest around whose top the fiercest lightnings were to blaze and whose trunk was destined to be shivered in the ...
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... political con- sequences thereof , suggested to the Republicans their future program of operations , to wit : a moral , religious , and political crusade against the slave system of the South as a diseased excrescence upon the body ...
... political con- sequences thereof , suggested to the Republicans their future program of operations , to wit : a moral , religious , and political crusade against the slave system of the South as a diseased excrescence upon the body ...
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... politicians and the newspapers of those states , the election of Lincoln will not be tolerated without a struggle ... political journals , refusing all paper maturing after the elec- tion . This creates trouble at the South and vague ...
... politicians and the newspapers of those states , the election of Lincoln will not be tolerated without a struggle ... political journals , refusing all paper maturing after the elec- tion . This creates trouble at the South and vague ...
Contents
Contents | 17 |
Echoes from Harpers Ferry | 29 |
The Trial of John Brown | 39 |
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