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Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 4 : the hour and the man. (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 5 : the day of small things. (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 13 : the barometer continues to fall. (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 18 : the turning of a long lane. (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 20 : the death-grapple. (search)
Chapter 20: the death-grapple.
The triumph of the Republican party at the polls was the signal for the work of dissolution to begin.
Webster's terrific vision of a land rent with civil feuds became reality in the short space of six weeks after Lincoln's election, by the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
Quickly other Southern States followed, until a United States South was organized, the chief stone in the corner of the new political edifice being Negro slavery.
It was not six weeks after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, when the roar of cannon in Charleston Harbor announced to the startled country that war between the States had begun.
The first call of the new President for troops to put down the rebellion and to save the Union, and the patriotic uprising which it evoked made it plain that the struggle thus opened was to be nothing less than a death-grapple between the two sections.
Before the attack on Fort Sumter, Garrison was opposed to coercing the re
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)