Abraham Lincoln and reformers . March, 1853. —21 H 322 that Illinois could even criticise New England for her moderatenessof statement; churches criticised the society that gave them exist-ence; and church members criticised the reserve of the church itself;and the religious leaders saw in all the agitation and in the threat-ening danger still greater need for the spread of Christian the contest deepened and patriotism was invoked to bring thecountry out of her trouble, it seems only a natural result that one infour of the entire male membership of the Puritan church in Illinoissprang
Abraham Lincoln and reformers . March, 1853. —21 H 322 that Illinois could even criticise New England for her moderatenessof statement; churches criticised the society that gave them exist-ence; and church members criticised the reserve of the church itself;and the religious leaders saw in all the agitation and in the threat-ening danger still greater need for the spread of Christian the contest deepened and patriotism was invoked to bring thecountry out of her trouble, it seems only a natural result that one infour of the entire male membership of the Puritan church in Illinoissprang to the defense of the Union against the coalition of slavehold-ing states. Transactions of Hist. Soc, 1905 PAVED THE WAYFOR LINCOLN. JffO By WILLARD JAMES. [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso-^ ciation.] ABOUT the time that AbrahamLincoln began to lisp his ear-^ liest words in the humblehome in Kentucky in 1811there was born in the old Bay Statean individual who was destined to be-come a powerful molder of the uation-. CHABIiES STJMNEB, 1860. al sentiment which*bore the great warpresident into the White House. Hewas Charles Sumner, whose missionit was to become the successor of Dan-iel Webster in the United States sen-ate and the uncompromising foe ofslavery and disunion. He pitted him-self against the advocates of the fugi-tive slave law in the senate and madea speech which upset all the specioustheories of those who were> its cham-pions. In the famous debate on the \Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854 he di- jrected all the keenest shafts of his jwit and logic against the measure, andhe won. Two years later he made thefamous speech on the contest in Kan-sas which so excited the ire of thebellicose Preston Brooks that he soughtfistic satisfaction. His speech entitledThe Barbarism of Slavery was readall country and produced atremendous effect. Gerrit Smith was a pioneer in the]dissemination of anti-slavery early as 1835 he practically with-drew from al
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