Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . e, after-wards a General of the Confederate army, as Vice-President. A diliiculty with the Mormons, which caused the President tosend a military force to Utah, was settled without bloodshed. Theefforts of the government to execute the Fugitive Slave Law keptup an irritated feeling. There were savage lights between theNorthern and Southern parties in Kansas, and on the westernborders of Missouri. Resolute and well-armed settlers A-ere sentout by
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . e, after-wards a General of the Confederate army, as Vice-President. A diliiculty with the Mormons, which caused the President tosend a military force to Utah, was settled without bloodshed. Theefforts of the government to execute the Fugitive Slave Law keptup an irritated feeling. There were savage lights between theNorthern and Southern parties in Kansas, and on the westernborders of Missouri. Resolute and well-armed settlers A-ere sentout by New England emigration societies. In October, 1859,John Brown, known as ?* Ossawattamie Brown, who, with hissons, had been engaged in the struggles in Kansas, planned andled an expedition for freeing the negroes in Virginia. lie madehis attempt at Harpers Ferry, on the Potomac, where, after avain attempt to induce the negroes to join him, he and his small 1 tarty took possession of one of the government workshops, wherele was taken prisoner by a party of United States soldiers, andhanded over to the authorities of Virginia, tried and executed. MERIWETHER LEWIS. Of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition, infndian Costume. 104 PRESIDENTS. SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. December 2. His body was taken to his home in New York forburial. In I860, the Democratic party, which, except at short intervals,had controlled the Federal government from the election of Jef-ferson in 1800, became hopelessly divided. The Southern dele-gates withdrew from the convention at Charleston, and twoDemocratic candidates were nominated, Stephen A. Douglas, ofIllinois, and John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky; while theRepublicans, or United Whig and Abolition party, nominatedAbraham Lincoln, of Illinois; and the Union or American partynominated John Bell, of Tennessee. The Republican conventionadopted a moderate and even conservative platform of princi-ples, denounced the John Brown raid, and put forward as a prin-ciple,
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