. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. f their most I prominent leaders, but he had recently been nominated for the Illinois senator-ship against Douglas, and in a series of celebrated
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. f their most I prominent leaders, but he had recently been nominated for the Illinois senator-ship against Douglas, and in a series of celebrated debates had forced his re-nowned antagonist into a position unsatisfactory to the South. Thus, intruth, it had been Lincoln who divided the Democratic party. The Republicans insisted that they had no intention of attacking slaverywhere it already existed, but only of preventing its extension. Nevertheless,the South saw plainly that triumphant Republicanism could not long maintainthis attitude, and that slavery would be gradually hampered, legislated against,throttled, slain. Many of its leaders renewed their warning that if a Republi-can President was elected they would secede. The North accepted the chal-lenge. Lincoln carried every Northern State, and was elected by 180 elec-toral votes to Breckinridges ^2. The men of compromise were dead. Thesad hour of disunion, threatening through all the seventy years of national life,had come at A WHIG Procession in New York THE GOLD MIGRATION OF 49 (Emigrants to California Assailed by Indians)From a painting by the American artist, W. Montague Gary SCARCELY had California become part of the UnitedStates when, in 1849, gold was discovered there. The an-nouncement of the discovery caused the greatest goldrush in the history of the world. From every seaport alongour Atlantic coast ships set out on the long journey aroundSouth America and up the Pacific coast to San port, from having been a sleepy little Mexican settl
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