. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . nlisted for three years or the war. Party distinctions inthe North faded. Talk of compromise was drowned in thedin of arms. Douglas, dying though he was, hastenedgallantly to Lincolns support; and Buchanan gave cordialaid. Lowell wrote of that first gun at Sumter which burning over his head; and in 1862, when an old Illinois friend remarked on hiscareworn face, he exclaimed with petulant humor, — It isnt this war thats kill-ing me. Judge : its your confounded Pepperton postoffice! 532 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1862 brought the free States
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . nlisted for three years or the war. Party distinctions inthe North faded. Talk of compromise was drowned in thedin of arms. Douglas, dying though he was, hastenedgallantly to Lincolns support; and Buchanan gave cordialaid. Lowell wrote of that first gun at Sumter which burning over his head; and in 1862, when an old Illinois friend remarked on hiscareworn face, he exclaimed with petulant humor, — It isnt this war thats kill-ing me. Judge : its your confounded Pepperton postoffice! 532 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1862 brought the free States to their feet as one man; andfour years later, while sorrowing, for his own glorious dead,he told again how America lay asleep, like the princess of the fairy tale, enchantedby prosperity. But at the fiery kiss of war, the spell is broken, theblood tingles along her veins, and she awakens, conscious of her beautyand her sovereignty. . What splendid possibilities has not ourtrial revealed, even to ourselves! What costly stuff whereof to makea Nation I. Union and Confederacy in 1862. The Confederacy sprang to arms with even greaterunanimity. And now the remaining Slave States had to choose sides. Within six weeks the second tiertier of Slave (North Carolina and Virginia, Tennessee, Arkan-secede ^^^^ joined the Confederacy rather than join in to coerce sister States;^ and theConfederate capital was moved from Montgomery to Rich-mond, within striking distance of Washington. ^ The people of the western counties in Virginia had been opposed to the State withdrew, they organized a separate State government, and (1863)were admitted to the Union as West Virginia. The legislature of Tennessee sub-mitted the matter directly to the people; and the popular vote stood 105,000 to47,000 (the eastern mountain counties, like their Virginia neighbors, containing astrong Union element). In Virginia the convention vote was two to one for THE CALL TO ARMS 533 The third ti
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