. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . lds history. It cost over half a million of lives and a mountain of debt. It brought devastation to many parts of the land. It caused untold sorrow throughout the nation. The cause of this terrible and unjustifiable war was an unsuccessful effort to extend and perpetuate slavery of the African race in the United States. Every reason for the rebellion can be traced to this root. •»»7T ITS INTRODUCTION, GROWTH AND INFLUENCE INTHE COLONIES. In August, 1619, a Dutch war vessel arrived a
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . lds history. It cost over half a million of lives and a mountain of debt. It brought devastation to many parts of the land. It caused untold sorrow throughout the nation. The cause of this terrible and unjustifiable war was an unsuccessful effort to extend and perpetuate slavery of the African race in the United States. Every reason for the rebellion can be traced to this root. •»»7T ITS INTRODUCTION, GROWTH AND INFLUENCE INTHE COLONIES. In August, 1619, a Dutch war vessel arrived at Jamestown,Virginia, with twenty negroes who were sold to the planters forslaves. In 1790, theslaves in the colo- ^^nies had increased ^to 697,897, of which40>373 were in sixof the Northern,and the rest in thesix Southern States,Massachusetts hav-ing none. During the strug-gle for AmericanIndependence, slav-ery was an anoma-lous feature of thefree republic. Thecolonists were seeking sympathy from the civilized world in theirefforts for liberty, and yet, were holding in slavery their own fellow 2 (9). SLAVES PLANTING COTTON SEED. 10 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. human beings! It was a marvelous sight to General Lafayette, whohad brought upon himself the reprehension of his own governmentand braved the perils of the sea and his capture in behalf ofthe struggling people of the New World, to behold the blackdomestiques held in bondage by those for whose own liberty he wasabout to hazard his immense fortune and his life. Slaverys influence had become so great that, after theRevolution-, it was a great embarrassment in the formation of the newgovernment. The best statesmen, South and North, believed it in thecourse of ultimate extinction. That all the colonies might be inducedto enter the Union, compromises were incorporated in theConstitution whereby, (i) It was made a reserved right of theseveral States to retain or abolish slavery; (2) States retaining thesystem w
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