History of the United States . by a freed slave. In anight uprising of the negroes, fifty-seven whites were massacred, most of whomwere women and children. It was believed that Turner was incited to thiscrime by the pamphlets of the abolitionists. 1 ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION 231 and an agreement with hell. For these and other utterances hewas roughly treated in Boston, and his life was seriously threat-ened; in the South rewards were offered for his capture, and hewould doubtless have fared badly had he ever visited that southern people resented not only the intemperate abuse ofthemse
History of the United States . by a freed slave. In anight uprising of the negroes, fifty-seven whites were massacred, most of whomwere women and children. It was believed that Turner was incited to thiscrime by the pamphlets of the abolitionists. 1 ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION 231 and an agreement with hell. For these and other utterances hewas roughly treated in Boston, and his life was seriously threat-ened; in the South rewards were offered for his capture, and hewould doubtless have fared badly had he ever visited that southern people resented not only the intemperate abuse ofthemselves, but also the efforts to arouse in a general insurrectionthe slaves and free negroes. On the other hand, southern politicalleaders frequently attacked all abolitionists without discrimina-tion. With the aid of northern Representatives, measures werepassed intended to cut off abolitionist petitions in Congress,partly because of their offensive language, but chiefly on theground that Congress had no authority in the fir Alttr I r. wi - iii-i r\ m tiie i irst LoLOiii jtue. Coiirtes> of D. Appleton & Co. This drawing shows Peter Coopers Tom Thumb locomotive in the act of passing ahorse-drawn coach on parallel track. The race took place on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-way from the Relay House to Baltimore, Aug. 28, 1830. The locomotive proved to bethe faster, but broke down under the extraordinary excitement, and the horse won. It was natural that intemperate language and abuse on bothsides should increase the political differences of the day betweenthe North and the South. Communication between Results ofthe people of the two sections was comparatively in- *^^ agitationfrequent. Each section saw less and less of the good in the other,and cooperation and sympathy grew more and more good feehng of 1820 was replaced by misrepresentation,mutual distrust, and enmity, feelings that were industriously cul-tivated by politicians and others who sought to derive p
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