. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... nthe hands of the disunionists, and in thealarm and excitement produced by thatevent the southern people lost sight of thefact that the great mass of the northernpeople sincerely deplored and condemnedthe action of Brown and his voice of reason was drowned in thestorm of passionate excitement which swept * Mr. F. B. Sanborn, one of Browns confederates, in a series of papers published in The Atlantic Monthly(vol. XXXV.) gives the details of thi
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... nthe hands of the disunionists, and in thealarm and excitement produced by thatevent the southern people lost sight of thefact that the great mass of the northernpeople sincerely deplored and condemnedthe action of Brown and his voice of reason was drowned in thestorm of passionate excitement which swept * Mr. F. B. Sanborn, one of Browns confederates, in a series of papers published in The Atlantic Monthly(vol. XXXV.) gives the details of this conspiracy, together with many interesting incidents connected with it, which sus-tain the view of the case presented 65S FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. over the land, and the extremists on bothsides were able to prosecute their unpatrioticwork to great advantage. While the excitement was at its height thePresidential campaign opened in the Springof i860. The slavery question was the chiefissue in this struggle. The convention ofthe Democratic party met at Charleston, inApril, but being unable to effect an organi-. EDWARD EVERETT. zation adjourned to Baltimore, and reassem-bled in that ciLy in June. The extreme south-ern delegates were resolved that the conven-?^^ion should be committed to the protectionof slavery in the Territories by Congress, andfailing to control it withdrew from it in abody, and organized a separate convention,which they declared represented the Demo-cratic party, but which, in reality, as the votesubsequently proved, represented but a minority of that party. The new Colivef!tion was joined by a number of delegatesfrom the Northern and Western States. The convention, after the withdrawal ofthese delegates, nominated for the Presi-dency Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, andfor the Vice-Presidency Herschell V. John-son, of Georgia. It then proceeded to adoptthe platform put forward by the entire partyfour years before at Cincinnati, uponthe
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