. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ers. Anactual war was fought there, and murders were frequent uponboth sides. The free soil settlers from the North were atlength victorious. But
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. ers. Anactual war was fought there, and murders were frequent uponboth sides. The free soil settlers from the North were atlength victorious. But the strife did not end there. Amongthe most embittered and fanatical of the anti-slavers was JohnBrown; and when there was no more fighting to be done inKansas, Brown planned to carry the war into slaverys otherstrongholds among the older States. Hence arose his not«dVirginian raid. With a mere handful of followers. Brown entered Virginiaand summoned the slaves there to join him in rising againsttheir masters. When the Virginia authorities attempted toarrest him, he fought a battle against them, was captured,tried by law for treason and murder, and was executed in1859. ]\Iany people of the North regarded Brown as a martyrand said so vehemently. The South on its part felt that it mustresort to arms to defend itself against invasion and negromassacre. Thus the appeal to armed force, begun in bloodyKansas, now menaced the entire nation. IX-J 1. I X-51 Copyright. IS89, by Gebbie 4 Co. The United States—Result of Bull Run 1637 teers shouldered their rifles and galloped proudly off for home, to carry thehappy news. It seems strange that they should have so undervalued the slowtenacity of the North, so little understood the calm, stern spirit of the manwho sat in the White House chair, the leader and personification of all that thegreat North was or hoped to be. Lincolns answer to the defeat of Bull Runwas to call for five hundred thousand Union volunteers; and the five hundredtho
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