. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ^ should not exist within its boundaries if the ma-jority of the people did not want it. The Southern party now de-clared that slavery ought to go into the Territories and be recognizedas an institution of the United States. Hence their quarrel with theNorthern members of their party. The third party was called the^ Union and Constitutional party, or the Bell-Everetts, from 28 432 STORY or OUR COUNTRY. their leaders, John Bell and Edward Everett, f
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ^ should not exist within its boundaries if the ma-jority of the people did not want it. The Southern party now de-clared that slavery ought to go into the Territories and be recognizedas an institution of the United States. Hence their quarrel with theNorthern members of their party. The third party was called the^ Union and Constitutional party, or the Bell-Everetts, from 28 432 STORY or OUR COUNTRY. their leaders, John Bell and Edward Everett, for president and vice-president. This party was very much troubled by the constantthreats of Southern senators on the floor of Congress, that they weregoing out of the Union to make a new government of their Union party drew up an expression of their opinion (or what. Abraham Lincoln. political parties call a platform ), in which they begged all thepeople to stand by the Union and the national laws. The fourthparty was the Republican; the same that had worked so hard forJohn C Fr(3mont four years before. This party had taken Abra-ham Lincoln for their leader. He was the fellow-statesman ofDouglas in Illinois, and once before had had a contest with the Little Giant, with their own State as the battle-ground. Abraham Lincoln had had a severe struggle in life before he gotfar enough up above the crowd, so that people could see his liomely,honest face above those of other men born in his own rank. Hewas the son of a Kentucky farmer, and in his youth had workedhard at the rudest kind of labor. He had hoed corn, driven oxen,helped to build the log-house which was the home of his family inIlHnois, and had spent one whole season in the woods splitting rails LINCOLN ELECTED PRESIDENT. 433 for fences. From this, his opponents called him a vulgar rail-splitte
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