Identifier: youngfolkshistor00higg (find matches)
Title: Young folks' history of the United States
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
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Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d his rifle withthe other, and commanded his men with the utmostcomposure, encouraging them to be firm. He fell atlast with six wounds, and was thought to be dying.Ten of the party were killed, and four wounded. John Brown himself was put on trial before a Vir-ginia court, where he conducted himself in such amanner as to win the admiration even of his enemies.Governor Wise of Virginia said of him, They arethemselves mistaken who take him for a madman. . . .He is a man of clear head, of courage, fortitude, andsimple ingenuousness. . . . He inspired me with greatconfidence in his integrity as a man of truth. He wascondemned and executed on the gallows Dec. 2, 1859,at Charlestown, Va. ; his last act being to kiss the fore-head of a little slave-child, on the way to the place ofexecution. Six of his comrades were executed at a laterday. A few others, who were on duty outside the town,escaped to the mountains, and thence, with great periland hardship, to the free States. One of John Browns
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ELECTION OF MR. LINCOLN. 289 sons was the leader of this party, and has written athrilling narrative of their escape. These events brouo^ht the agitation on the subject of The ° . • election of slavery to its highest point, during President Buchan- Abrahamans administration. When the time drew near for theelection of a new president, the old parties were sobroken up, that there were four candidates in the field,though Mr. Buchanan himself was not one of themOut of these four, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, waselected, he having been nominated by the Republicanparty; this being an enlarged form of the Free-soil party, which had itself succeeeded the Libertyparty. Mr. Lincoln was a man of very moderate ms viewsopinions in regard to slavery, and was not disposed to slavery,interfere with it where it was already established bylaw. But his election was regarded by many in the The doc-slave States as very dangerous to the interests of sr4°slavery; and these men resolved to dissolve the U

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