History of the United States Volume Iii Part 3

History of the United States Volume Iii Part 3

Quincy Adams as an Abolitionist.


The First Gag Law.


Adamss Opposition.


The Second and Third.


Their Repeal.


Pro-slavery Whigs.


Submission to Slavocracy.


Its Insolent Demands.


Death of Whiggism.


Americanism.


The Know-Nothings.


Revolt from the Democracy at the North.


CHAPTER VII. THE CRISIS.


Consolidation of Anti-slavery Men.


Worse Black Laws.


Schemes for Foreign Conquest.


Lopezs and Walkers Expedition.


Ostend Manifesto.


Supremacy of Slavery.


Rise of Free-soilers.


Incipient Republicanism.


Republican Doctrine.


John Browns Raid.


Schism between the Northern and the Southern Democrats.


Nomination of Douglas.


Breckenridge and Lane.


Bell and Everett.


Lincoln and Hamlin.


Lincolns Popularity.


His Election to the Presidency.


CHAPTER VIII. MATERIAL PROGRESS


Population and Economic Prosperity.


Growth of the West.


Indian Outbreaks.


Improvements farther East.


Ca.n.a.ls and Railroads.


The Steam Horse in the West.


Morses Telegraph.


Ocean Cables.


Minor Inventions.


Petroleum.


Financial Crisis of 1857.


PERIOD IV


CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION


1860-1868


CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE WAR.


An "Irrepressible Conflict."


Growth of North.


Influence of Missouri Compromise Repeal.


Slavery as Viewed by the South.


Stephens.


Anti-Democratic Habits of Thought.


Compact Theory of the Union.


State Consciousness, South.


Argument for the Calhoun Theory.


Secession not Justifiable by this.


Moderates and Fire-eaters.


Northern Grievances.


Do not Excuse Secession.


Lincolns Election.


Patriotic and Philanthropic Considerations Ignored.


Prudence also.


Resources of South and of North.


CHAPTER II. SECESSION


Threats of Secession before 1860.


By New England.


By the South in 1856.


Governor Wise.


The 1860 Campaign.


Att.i.tude of South Carolina.


Of the Gulf States.


Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana.


Election of Lincoln.


South Carolina will Secede.


Judge Magrath.


The Palmetto State Goes.


Enthusiasm.


The State Plays Nation.


Effect upon Other States.


Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana.


and Texas Follow.


Strong Union Spirit Still.


Vain.


Georgia and Secession.


The Question in Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina.