The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . itory. Lincolnargued that, regardless of the Dred Scott decision, the Congresshad the right to legislate concerning slavery in a territory, althoughit could not interfere with slavery in a state. Douglas was electedsenator, but Lincoln won the prominence that made him the leaderof the Republican party. The Bitterness of Slavery Agitation. — Throughout the adminis-tration of President Buchanan the slavery question kept thecountry continually in a state of turmoil. There were manypassionate controversies in the Congress and in
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . itory. Lincolnargued that, regardless of the Dred Scott decision, the Congresshad the right to legislate concerning slavery in a territory, althoughit could not interfere with slavery in a state. Douglas was electedsenator, but Lincoln won the prominence that made him the leaderof the Republican party. The Bitterness of Slavery Agitation. — Throughout the adminis-tration of President Buchanan the slavery question kept thecountry continually in a state of turmoil. There were manypassionate controversies in the Congress and in the state con-ventions. The abolitionists strenuously urged that slavery beabolished. Between the North and the South there had de-veloped a sectional bitterness which plainly indicated the prob-ability of disunion. The Southern people discussed secessionopenly and in strong language. They claimed that any statehad the right to withdraw from the Union whenever it the North should cease to interfere with slavery, it was THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY 291. The Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. declared that the South would secede and set up an independentgovernment. John Browns Raid. 1859. — The political excitement wasimmensely increased by a raid made into Virginia by JohnBrown, an abolitionist. Brown was a resident of New York,who had been for some time in Kansas aiding the free-soilpeople in their efforts to make an antislavery state. In thefall of 1859, with aforce of only twenty-two men, he enteredthe village of Har-pers Ferry (WestVirginia), seized theUnited States Ar-senal, and endeavoredto incite the slaves inthat region to takearms and begin aninsurrection. The slaves would not join Browns party, and the audaciousaffair ended in the capture of the raiders. Brown was tried,convicted, and hanged for treason by the Virginia raid set the whole country aflame with discord. It ledthe South to believe that in the North there had been a generalplan to c
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