A history of Virginia for boys and girls . here wasno escape. FACTS TO REMEMBER 1. In 1859 John Brown, at Harpers Ferry, tried to InvadeVirginia by arming the slaves. 2. The negroes did not respond to his call. Brown wassoon captured and hanged. 3. Many things had already made the people, North andSouth, angry over their differences; therefore Browns raidwas taken very seriously. 4. It aroused the South because it was known that manyAbolitionists approved his methods. 5. The hanging of Brown aroused the North becausemany persons there regarded him as a martyr. PUPILS READINGS Gllman: Robert E.
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . here wasno escape. FACTS TO REMEMBER 1. In 1859 John Brown, at Harpers Ferry, tried to InvadeVirginia by arming the slaves. 2. The negroes did not respond to his call. Brown wassoon captured and hanged. 3. Many things had already made the people, North andSouth, angry over their differences; therefore Browns raidwas taken very seriously. 4. It aroused the South because it was known that manyAbolitionists approved his methods. 5. The hanging of Brown aroused the North becausemany persons there regarded him as a martyr. PUPILS READINGS Gllman: Robert E. Lee; pages : Life of Robert E. Lee; pages : Life of J. E. B. Stuart; pages 13-33. TEACHERS READINGS Dickson: American History; pages : History of Virginia; pages State Department of Public Instruction: TheCauses and Outbreak of the War between the States. CHAPTER XXXVLEES DEFENSE OF RICHMOND In the autumn of i860 Abraham Lincoln waselected President of the United States. His. ABRAHAM LINCOLN election was generally regarded as a triumph ofthose who opposed slavery and state , the defenders of slavery and staterights felt that they would thenceforth be allowed 266 LEES DEFENSE OF RICHMOND 267 very little share in the government at Washing-ton, and many of them said, Let us withdrawand establish another government of our own. Other people of the South put it this way:The Constitution is being violated at Wash-ington and the rights of our states are not beingrespected. Let us secede. It was only a month or two till six or sevenSouthern states did secede. That is, they declaredthat they were no longer in the Union. Theirrepresentatives in Congress left Washington andwent home. In February (1861) those statesformed a union of their own, calling it TheConfederate States of America. They drew up aconstitution and elected Jefferson Davis of Mis-sissippi President. They took charge of the fortsand arsenals
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