Essentials of United States history . the himself was tried by a Virginia court, and sentencedto be hanged. He was executed December 2, 1859. Very few in the North sympathized with Browns uselessand foolhardy raid. The people of the South, how-ever, were highly incensed at this attempted insur- supportedrection and failed to understand that only a few by MostNortherners desired the immediate abolition of Northern_ crs. slavery, and that fewer still approved of any insur-rection for the purpose. All anti-slavery men were classed by 260 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Southern
Essentials of United States history . the himself was tried by a Virginia court, and sentencedto be hanged. He was executed December 2, 1859. Very few in the North sympathized with Browns uselessand foolhardy raid. The people of the South, how-ever, were highly incensed at this attempted insur- supportedrection and failed to understand that only a few by MostNortherners desired the immediate abolition of Northern_ crs. slavery, and that fewer still approved of any insur-rection for the purpose. All anti-slavery men were classed by 260 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Southerners as abolitionists, and henceforth Southern Demo-crats had only scorn and contempt for the Black Repub-licans, as they called the new Northern party. 330. The Slavery Question. — The fathers of the republic,in the South as well as in the North, had been generallyopposed to slavery and had expected that in time it wouldbe abolished. But as the years passed by and slave laborbecame more and more profitable, the people of the South. Copyright, 1892, by J. HoTgan, Jr. Negro Laborers in the Cotton Field. arrived at the conclusion that slavery was not only desirable,but justifiable, claiming that it was sanctioned by the the North, where most of the people disapproved of keep-ing men and women in bondage, the question was widelydiscussed. Anti-slavery societies had been formed which ad-vocated the abolition of slavery, and some went so far asto declare that this should be The majority of In f831 William Lloyd Garrison, an earnest opponent of slavery,began in Boston the publication of a vigorous anti-slavery paper, failed BUCHANANS ADMINISTRATION (1857-1861) 261 the people, however, did not sympathize with these extremeideas, not because they thought them wrong but becausethey thought them unwise. Moreover, all this discussion,while it widened the breach between the North and the South,served rather to make the condition of the slave harder. Petitions concerni
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