profoundly affected American conditions through generation after generation. An effort is here made to tell that story succinctly, tracing it, step after step, from cause to effect. The subject divides itself naturally into four historic periods: 1. I. The anti-slavery crusade, 1831 to 1860. 2. Secession and four years of war, 1861 to 1865. 3. Reconstruction under the LincolnJohnson plan, with the overthrow by Congress of that plan and the rule of the negro and carpet-bagger, from 1865 to 1876. 4. Restoration of self-government in the South, and the results that have followed. The greater part of the book is devoted to the first period-1831 to 1860, the period of causation. The sequences running through the three remaining periods are more briefly sketched. Italics, throughout the book, it may be mentioned here, are the author's. Now that the country is happily reunited in a Union which all agree is indissoluble, the South wants the true history of the times here treated of spread before its children; so does the North. The mistakes that were committed on both sides during that lamentable and prolonged sectional quarrel (and they were many) should be known of all, in order that like mistakes may not be committed in the future. The writer has, with diffidence, attempted to lay the facts before his readers, and so to condense the story that it may be within the reach of the ordinary student. How far he has succeeded will be for his readers to say. The verdict he ventures to hope for is that he has made an honest effort to be fair. The author takes this occasion to thank that accomplished young teacher of history, Mr. Paul Micou, for valuable suggestions, and his friend, Mr. Thomas H. Clark, who with his varied attainments has aided him in many ways. HILARY A. HERBERT. WASHINGTON, D. C., March, 1912. CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I. SECESSION AND ITS DOCTRINE. II. EMANCIPATION PRIOR TO 1831 IV. FEELING IN THE SOUTH-1835 · |