Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ed. The enraged citizens would have rendedthem to pieces, had they been allowed, but Colonel Lee protected and turnedthem over to the civil authorities. Brown and his six companions were jjlacedon trial, found guilty of what was certainly an unpardonable crime, and hangedon the 2d of December, 1859. IMany in the South believed that the act of Brown was jdanned andsupported by leading Republicans, but such was not the fact, an


Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ed. The enraged citizens would have rendedthem to pieces, had they been allowed, but Colonel Lee protected and turnedthem over to the civil authorities. Brown and his six companions were jjlacedon trial, found guilty of what was certainly an unpardonable crime, and hangedon the 2d of December, 1859. IMany in the South believed that the act of Brown was jdanned andsupported by leading Republicans, but such was not the fact, and they were asearnest in condemnation of the mad proceeding as the extreme slavery men, but PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1800. 281 John Browns raid served to fan the spark of civil war ihai was already kindledand fast growing into a flame. PRESIDEXTIAL CAMIAIGN OF 18G0. The presidential campaigns that had been pressed heretofore with a certainpliilosophic good nature, now assumed a tragic character. The fcjouth saw tliegrowing preponderance of the Xorth. ^ew States were continually formingout of the enormous territory in the West, the oj)position to slavery was iuien-.


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