New school history of the United States . nancial distress ;Minnesota. Oregon, and Kansas admitted ; the population ; population ofSeceding States. LINCOLNS ADMINISTRA TJON. 229 PART VI. WAR OF SECESSION.—RECON-STRUCTION AND GROWTH. 1861-1881. THE ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.— 1861-1865. The First Year of the War, 1861. I, The important period subsequent to the inauguration ofPresident Lincoln is so recent, and so full of contending pas-sions and prejudices, that it can be treated only lightly andwith hesitation. The mainfacts may be given, buttheir details and circum-stances are still d
New school history of the United States . nancial distress ;Minnesota. Oregon, and Kansas admitted ; the population ; population ofSeceding States. LINCOLNS ADMINISTRA TJON. 229 PART VI. WAR OF SECESSION.—RECON-STRUCTION AND GROWTH. 1861-1881. THE ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.— 1861-1865. The First Year of the War, 1861. I, The important period subsequent to the inauguration ofPresident Lincoln is so recent, and so full of contending pas-sions and prejudices, that it can be treated only lightly andwith hesitation. The mainfacts may be given, buttheir details and circum-stances are still a small part of theFederal and Confederatearchives of the war has yetbeen published. The periodis one of incessant conflict—military, political, and more than a generationno agreement can be ex-pected in regard to thesegrave transactions. A shortand temperate statement of Abraham lixcoln. the leading events is all that will be attempted here. Thetrue history of the times must wait till a later day, when par-. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. tialities and antipathies have been mitigated by renewed har-^mony, or by other changes of sentiment.* 2. The seeds of contention were introduced into thecountry with the foundation of the colonies. Their activegrowth was displayed in the Continental Congress. They oc-casioned increasing discordance after independence had beenwon. Sooner or later, war between the North and the South—the trading and the planting—the free and the slave-hold-ing States—was almost certain to occur. Actual hostilitieshad been with difficulty prevented during the last weeks ofBuchanans administration. They soon broke out after Lin-coln assumed the reins of government. CAPTURE OF FORT SUMTER. 3. Fort Sumter, and Fort Pickens at Pensacola, were the only fortified positions which the Federal Govern-ment retained in the seceding States. The rest of the publicestablishments had been promptly seized by the several Statesas soon as they
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