A history of the United States for schools . was the publication, in, 1852, of Uncle TomsCabin, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Of this novelmore than half a millioncopies were sold withinthe next five years in theUnited States alone, andit was translated into morethan twenty European andseveral Asiatic everywhere by oldand young, it doubtless didmore than anything elseever printed to strengthenand spread the feeling ofhostility to slavery. Prob-ably more slaves escapedand fewer were returned to their masters than beforethe passage of the law of 1850. Secret understandings were k
A history of the United States for schools . was the publication, in, 1852, of Uncle TomsCabin, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Of this novelmore than half a millioncopies were sold withinthe next five years in theUnited States alone, andit was translated into morethan twenty European andseveral Asiatic everywhere by oldand young, it doubtless didmore than anything elseever printed to strengthenand spread the feeling ofhostility to slavery. Prob-ably more slaves escapedand fewer were returned to their masters than beforethe passage of the law of 1850. Secret understandings were kept up between anti-slavery men from town to town, so that a fugitive slave,who had once got across the Ohio River, or Mason andDixons line, would be stealthily passed along from oneprotector to another as far as Canada, where no slavehunter could reach him. This sort of arrangement usedto be called the underground railroad. 1 After an engraving by R. Young, from an original portrait takenabout the time when Uncle Toms Cabin was HARRIET BEECHER 358 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XV. The desire for more slave territory was shown in fili-bustering expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico. The at-tempt of Lopez upon Cuba has been already 1855 to i860, William Walker, an adventurer fromTennessee, made expeditions against Nicaraguatend Mani- and Houduras, but was finally captured andshot. But what was most remarkable was theOstend Manifesto, In 1854, the United States minis-ters to Great Britain, France, and Spain met togetherat Ostend, in Belgium, and agreed in substance to reportto President Pierce that, in their opinion, the UnitedStates ought to have Cuba, even if it should be neces-sary to seize it by force in case of Spains unwillingnessto sell it. 132. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill. If Cuba had beenadded to the Union as a slave state, it might have servedas a counterweight to California. But the slaveholdershad more to hope from a repeal of the Missouri Com-pro
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