CHAPTER I

_The Slavery Question_

TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, John Greenleaf Whittier 385 CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, John Greenleaf Whittier 385 THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, James Russell Lowell 386 ICHABOD, John Greenleaf Whittier 388 THE KIDNAPPING OF SIMS, John Pierpont 388 THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, John Greenleaf Whittier 389 BURIAL OF BARBER, John Greenleaf Whittier 389 THE DEFENCE OF LAWRENCE, Richard Realf 390 THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, Unknown 391 LE MARAIS DU CYGNE, John Greenleaf Whittier 392 HOW OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER'S FERRY, Edmund Clarence Stedman 393 THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, Henry Howard Brownell 395 BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE, John Greenleaf Whittier 396 GLORY HALLELUJAH! OR JOHN BROWN'S BODY, Charles Sprague Hall 397 JOHN BROWN, Edna Dean Proctor 397 JOHN BROWN: A PARADOX, Louise Imogen Guiney 397 LECOMPTON'S BLACK BRIGADE, Charles Graham Halpine 398 LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, Edwin Markham 399 BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE, Oliver Wendell Holmes 400 JEFFERSON D., H. S. Cornwell 401 THE OLD COVE, Henry Howard Brownell 401 A SPOOL OF THREAD, Sophie E. Eastman 402 GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT, Francis DeHaes Janvier 403

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