A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCEUSIVE FEATURES ISABEL on christmas T EXPECT you know who I am from my picture. For a long time back The Boss (we call him that around the house just to prevent his Inferiority...
...Oh, yea...
...Where God is God and men is man 7 Doth he not claim a broader span FOr the soul's love of home lhan this...
...Buchanan took no precautions to guard southern forts and munitions...
...Bell, 588.879...
...The best thing about Christmas is not the give and take of it, but rather the chance it provides for sitting quietly down and figuring what life is all about and how come we are all where we are...
...It exalted asceticism, and bad a contempt for the sexual life which it regarded as "a sop to the devil, a necessary consequence- of feminine frailty and never a natural right or as a gift of Ood...
...Prom where I sit, I don't notice anything to tear your fur over in the goings-on of the youngsters...
...another thing i want you to do, Santy claws, and that is restore conversaahun to the American peepul i used to go over to a nabor for a chat and then we would chat about one thing or another until we run out of conversaahun...
...Oh, yes...
...You see it's hard for him to get the feline viewpoint on life...
...enyhow, what I'm getting at is that the America* peepul used to be the lafnngest peepul In the world • wherever 2 or 3 Americans used to came together 1 or 3 of them would start joshing and kidding each, other, then by the time the 2 or 3 Americana get to laffing good and harty other peepul would crowd around them and laff and laff with them until their sides split and when they got over their hlstsrics everybody asked everybody else "what's* the joke...
...Pierce received 254 electoral votes and was elected...
...1 don't know what's took aU the joy, cheer anl hilarity out of our Uvea, maybe it was the war or maybe it was prohibtion or maybe we are Just getting aid, rich and crabby, but the fact is we aint a happy peepul eny more, so, deer santy claws, if you oaa do anything t o bring back those old kidding, Jo ah ing and "Sweet Adeline" days again, please do ftt for the sake of my unhappily rich countrymen and countrywomen...
...Breckinridge received 73, Ben 89 and Douglas 12...
...This brings us to the modern feminist movement of which Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of the philosopher William Godwin and mother of Mary Shelley, was the pioneer...
...American History for Workers An Outline — By James Oneal * Trie Civil War lyUFTIHO APART...
...In the chapter devoted to primitive society, we find that the women, in spite of their lack of clothes, were not as degraded as is popularly believed Primitive man, because of his dependence on nature, worshipped fertility, and hence had a unique reverence for woman's child-bearing powers...
...ADAM...
...Most readers will be astounded by the fact that it was "not until 1854 that research finally revealed the fertilization of the egg cell by the sperm cell", and that there primitive tribes which to this day believe that there is no relation between the sex act and conception...
...THE OLD ORDER'S LAST TRIUMPH...
...So If you got anything to give away ggeqj it to some poor but ileeei vtng father boo aint aa riesw as 1 am...
...L Part IV...
...The majority adourned to meet in Baltimore to June...
...Only because 24 Know-Nothings and six Independent Democrats were also elected prevented the Republicans having a majority in the House in 1858...
...The Fatherland Where Is the true man's fatherland...
...i don't know what's got over the American peepul that they don't laff eny more unless they lost thefr humor by reading the funny strips to the newspaper* which are 'very sad being that they deal mostly with assault and battery, mayhem and homicide, so please take them funny strips away eo the American peepul can laff again as they use to...
...Slave owners organised emigrants to colonise Kansas Northern opponents did likewise...
...5. What was the chief significance of the election of 1856...
...THE SUPREME COURT...
...McMaster...
...There is the true lean's btrthpisee graaaV Bia la taw arasXldVwIae tBtaeejksBst;« « •w*esae>ssasBBsbe>Book review By Henry Miller TN VIEW of the widespread interest to the Revolt of Modem Woman, Companionate Merraige, the Future of the Family, John Langdm-Davles' "Short History of Women" (Viking Press, N.Y...
...In the Middle Ages, Mr...
...Scott, 1388,5*0...
...It 4iad also conserved the interests of the slave power but one question had remained unanswered...
...James Buchanan became President on March 4, 1857...
...Each represents an escape from the unnatural repressions of Christianity...
...The Democratic convention met in Charleston, S. C, in April and divided into two factions, one a majority of delegates from the Free States and the other a minority from the Slave States...
...In 1858 Senator Douglas and Abraham Lincoln engaged in a series of notable debates that made ?he latter a prominent leader of the forces opposed to slavery expansion...
...The Whig Party disappeared...
...With the admission of California in isSO the balance between the two sections In the Senate was upset...
...In 1856 the Democrats nominated John C. Fremont of California, who had won a reputation as an explorer of the West...
...Rejoicing foUowed In the Slave States but the decision spUt the Democratic Party into a northern and a southern faction...
...P prim an...
...8. How did the Civil War effect the trade unions...
...This resolution was reneated In 1869...
...American Historical Review, July, 1911...
...was nominated for President and more delegates withdrew...
...I got a, neck ty at* ready and I got a pair of slippers what a fellow f sggdj under the seat of his lower the time I bed the uppeev 1 also got a pipe and dont like to break m new ptpasj nohow...
...Da vies distinguishes three feminine types, the Lady, the Nun, and the Witch...
...The election to November,*I860, was followed In December by the appearance of an address by 33 Representatives and seven Senators stating that "the honor, safety and independence of the southern people require the organisation of a Southern Confederacy—a result to be attained only by separate State Secession...
...Particularly the female feline slant...
...xxL Macy, "Political Parties in the United States, 1846-1861," Chaps, vil, vUl...
...Several efforts at compromise failed...
...Second, that the territorial legislature has no power to abolish slavery in any territory, nor to prohibit the introduction of slaves thereto, nor any power to exclude slavery therefrom, nor any right to destroy or impair the right of poverty In slaves by any legislation whatever...
...These taboos derived largely from the "uncleanness" of woman due to her monthly function, which primitive man associated with supernatural power or "mana...
...I did my bit towards sowing my wild catnips when I was no older than my latest great-great granddaughter...
...Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned...
...Commons, "History of Labor In the United States," Vol...
...Other southern States followed...
...But Puritanism was a reaction and set up the still potent myth of the Female Character...
...but now when 1 go over to chat with a nabor he turns the radio loose on ma and Instead of chatting back and forth 1 got to listen to one way chatter with nary a chance to talk back so that my tongue is getting rusty In the hinges...
...Down to i843 the trade unions were prosecuted for "conspiracy" but a decision of a Massachusetts judge in that year held trade unions to be legal...
...and tell 'em for me there Is more fun in doing to others as you wish others to do to you than to Tie others before they can do you...
...Get a free sample copy of an old issue of Rational Living, Box 2, Station M, New York City (B...
...i want you to glee bathe American peepul is latter...
...Sammy, for example is doing well in the commercial line...
...The Slave States were doomed to defeat by the superior resources, organization and population of the Free States and the marvel is that the slave regime survived as long as it did...
...In the early days of the Roman Empire, the Roman matrons achieved a considerable dignity and respect...
...I suppose I have had about as much publicity as any female black cat of my generation...
...The Free Boil Party nominated John P. Hale of New Hampshire...
...7. What were the causes of the "split" in the Democratic Party in 1860...
...Two of myt children have gone into Art...
...To sit in the sun, or by the purring radiator (with a copy of "The Care and Feeding of Infants," conveniently at hand) to watch the woolly clouds float over ' John Wanamaker's tower, to ponder on the curious antics of humans and the amazing calm and wisdom of all four-footed things—this is the good life...
...x. Seibert, "The Underground Railroad From Slavery to Freedom.' Smith, "Parties and Slavery," Chaps, xv, xvii...
...8cott received 42...
...Since there was no repression of sex, "this never became a motive and prostitution is very rare as compared with its incidence in large civilized cities...
...This made the issue sharper...
...The KnowNothing Party was bankrupt...
...We all must have our fling...
...how long has it been since you heard "Sweat Adeline" or Farewell, farewell by own true tors/* Vibrating...
...They fuss up and complicate life so as to appear scientific...
...Both were eoaatog to grips tn a straggle for an empire of potential riches...
...What was the status of a slave who was taken by his master into a Free State and both lived there...
...THE LABOR MOVEMENT...
...Causes of the Civil War," Chaps, li, x. Cole, "The Whig Party in the South...
...This young Oxford journalist, erstwhile candidate of the British Labor Party, popular lecturer to America, has written with erudition, literary charm, and dry English wit on a subject about which most people have few facts but many prejudices...
...The slave economy would have to fight for more territory or disappear and the politics of the next tew years centered around this struggle...
...In October, 1859, John Brown made his famous raid at Harper's Ferry in the hope of starting a slave insurrection...
...A score of antislavery delegates from the North withdrew from the convention...
...Slavery and Abolition," Chaps, xvl...
...The Republican Party was already a northern party as its opposition to slavery expansion gave it no following in the Slave States except in some of the interior mountain regions...
...Breckinridge, 849,781...
...The popular vote was Pierce, 1,601,474...
...With the advent of Christianity, we have what the author calls "the greatest enemy of women", and the beginning of an influence which is still powerful today...
...Flte, "The Presidential Campaign in i860," Appendix B. Hart...
...Although this address was prepared in the room of a Mississippi member Buchanan did nothing...
...President Buchanan permitted matters to drift...
...SUCTION OF 18*2...
...through the stilly night...
...And now I figure that it's my turn to do some t«'lf<T'g on my own...
...The Industrial Revolution brought women a new freedom and a new degradation...
...Dodd, "The Fight for the Northwest...
...History of Trade Unionism to the United States," Chap...
...The good church ladies decorated it all up with a lovely statue of the Angel of Peace on top...
...War was the final arbiter...
...1. x Bchleatoger...
...When ahe cornea panting back with the Erector set for nephew Douglas, the muffler for cousin Albert and the cigar lighter for Grandad Perkins, these helping hands look critically at the schmier and curse a little in their best Old Scrooge manner and go back to their papers...
...Where'er a human heart doth wear Joys myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves Where'er a human spirit strives After a life more true and fair...
...Minnesota was admitted in 1868 and Oregon the following year, giving the Free States four more Senators...
...his fatherland must be As the blue heaven, wide and...
...Some of it was available, but the chief consideration was that the Supreme Court had solemnly affirmed the principle of slavery expansion into all territory not admitted to statehood...
...The modern marriage ritual, notably such customs as the throwing of rice, were originally magical devices to protect man against woman's supernatural powers...
...VIII, Chaps, xc, xcl...
...The Democrats declared that they would "adhere to" the Compromise of 1850 and Scott also approved of It as "a settlement in principle" of the slavery question...
...Fremont's vote was a forecast of the inevitable defeat of the Slave States...
...He was one of three American Ministers abroad who signed the "Ostend Manifesto" in October, 1854, which declared that if Spain would not seU Cuba the United States would be justified in wresting it from her...
...No school, no cult, the good from all schools...
...I have sat by the radiator and watched the folks do their stuff and more and more I am convinced * that Christmas is a curious institution...
...In conclusion we nave a clever analysis of the disintegration of the conventional family under current economic conditions, and an entertaining prophecy of asaspBsssawsassBwV ^ssasVeaw avaaVsssV^eaaneafta^ w^^seesT ^s^8sa> EVERYBODY Claims to be rational...
...The Slave States were sinking to a subordinate position In the Union...
...turkey rafles Is another American institution that ought to be restored, tn the good old times many a poor man who couldn't afford to spend five dollars for a Christmas turkey could buy fifty or sixty peddles at ten cents per and get a turkey for nothing...
...A resident of North Carolina, he addressed it to the "Non-Sisveholding Whites of the South', whose living conditions had been reduced to little better than those of the slaves...
...The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for President in 1830...
...Continence was enforced by numerous taboos against women...
...Adam CnalcHgaye...
...In the Free States the Supreme Court was denounced and its decision defied...
...Chad wick...
...Organisations were formed in the Free 8tales known as the "Underground Railroad", extending from the northern frontier of the Slave States to Canada, to aid fugitives to escape...
...Moreover, It decided that Congress could not exclude slave prop3rty from territories and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional...
...Is it where be by chance is born...
...Ex-President Fillmore, who had signed the Fugitive Slave Law...
...P. H. Editor) or send 25c...
...The Nun was an erotic sublimation, a "Bride of Christ...
...his fatherland must be As the blue heaven, wide and free...
...It carried three States in 1854, eight the following year and nearly six more...
...Health simplified...
...Exposing h»«»"g quackery - wherever found Edited by a practicing physician experienced in health education...
...The Republicans also elected 92 members of the House and the Democrats 123...
...The Boss tells me that he was out in Herrin, Illineis, once when they decided to have a municipal Christmas tree on Main Street...
...It is clear that northern capitalism was to control the Government...
...By striking comparisons he showed that in every field of human activity—literature, population, wealth, railroads, canals, exports, imports, manufactures, libraries, schools, churches, etc.—the North bad far surpassed and was fast exceeding the South...
...Is It alone where freedom is...
...Defeated, the minority left the convention...
...Owsley, "State Rights in the Confederacy...
...Two years later agents of slavery seized Nicaragua and proclaimed it a Slave State out were later expelled...
...This convention nominated Senator Douglas...
...Douglas recalled his bill and Introduced another which provided for the organization of two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and one <•'"¦«» would expressly repeal the Missouri Compromise...
...free...
...The majority favored leaving questions "of the right of property in States or Territories to the Susonal Liberty laws of the Free States, preme Court" and condemned the PerThe minority declared "First, that Con* gress has no power to abolish slavery in the territories...
...Never mind if the world does seem to be a cockeyed bug-house at times, forget the problems, theological, moral, social, economic and financial for just a little space and accept from one who knows her chopped liver, her heartiest wishes for a Merry Christmas...
...torn and jerry will make them forget some of their troubles for now this happy juletide Is mostly tag, nag and fag for the grown una...
...which seems to be the established policy of these Christian times...
...P. S. if you aint too aet to your habits Baasaad your reindeer and make your Journey in an auto, tbr deer season u on and the damn fools shoot at aaflr thing what's got horns...
...Only three members of his Cabinet held Unionist opinio ms^ one was colorless, one thought secession unwise but recognised it as a right, and two were uncompromising secessionists...
...Now he is assistant to the manager of the A. and P. store on Third Avenue at Twelfth Street and everyone in the stcre speaks highly of him...
...The Lady created the Troubadours, discovered Romantic Love, and transformed uncouth soldiers Into poets...
...J but, deer santy claws, whil I don't want ¦iijfBasfjj for myself there r some things I wish you wosM* give to my countrymen and countrywomen and the) up coming generation what aint countrymen sast countrywomen yet but maybe soon win be...
...If you have had as many children as I have had, some one hundred and fifty now, you aren't worrying much about a lot of the problems that are bothering some folks...
...Merrlam, "American Political Theories," Chaps, vi, vil...
...And nobody knew which was so funny that they started laffing all over again...
...This was a native American party opposed to Catholics and men of anen origin holding office...
...Pierce had carried every State except four, (two Massachusetts, and Vermont) in the North and two (Tennessee and Kentucky) In the South...
...Hale, 156,867...
...6. What did the Supreme Court decide In the Dred Scott decison and what was it* political results...
...This mad exploit dramatized the antagonism between the two Irreconcilable systems...
...Sometimes The Missus looks across her shoulder and grins at me when he is taking on...
...It 'offered a refuge for all those who desired to ignore the issue of slavery and it had a considerable following hi the Slave States...
...The Witch found an escape to the old fertility rights, in earner tunes personified by the pagan God Pan, who had now become the Devil...
...Since 1840 five new States, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin sod California (two Slave and three Free States), had been admitted...
...My children and grand-children have all turned out pretty well, though some of them were quite wild when they were young...
...However, the doctrine of "conspiracy" was shifted to other grounds by the employing classes and their lawyers...
...It was a sweeping victory but events swiftly drifted to a crisis...
...For a long time back The Boss (we call him that around the house just to prevent his Inferiority complex from getting a strangle-hold on him) has bean writing pieces about me for magazines and The New Leader...
...for my own part 1 still can laff at them but 1 would a heap rather laff with them...
...Those who left toe Baltimore convention joined with the Charleston minority and nominated John O. Breckinridge of Kentucky...
...He is the result of a. companionate marriage with a pretty swell looking tiger whom I met in East Ninth Street...
...The beok ym» the subject of heated debates in Congress and its author had to flee from his native State...
...For a time it was a secret, oath-bound organisation...
...30' free soil but the Nebraska Bill would make it optional with settlers whether Nebraska should be free soil or not...
...These Incidents, including the bloody struggle in Kansas, show the land hunger of the slave regime...
...When the Know -No things met In a convention their national council had four days before adopting a clause favoring non-interference by Congress with "domestic and social affairs" (slavery) in a territory...
...Buchanan received 174 electoral votes and was elected Fremont received 114 and Fillmore 8. The popular vote was Buchanan, 1,838,169...
...I just smile a bit to myself and smooth out my whiskers when I hear The Boss rave around about economic problems and the purpose of life and all that...
...Dictated (bat not reed) by ISABEL to McAlister and EUaebeth CoiecAsei...
...In 1866 the National Labor Union* was organized and for the first time the' eight-hour day is demanded and a resolution was adopted urging the organization of a Labor Party...
...Here some northern end southern delegates left the convention...
...But most people never Uke anything that is really rational...
...THE CIVIL WAR...
...The American people used to laugh more than any other peepul what ever* laffed but they don't laff any more xcept when ana) of them steps on a banana peeling and brisks baaneck or if a fellow's hat blows off and he's run over by a street car while chasing it- 1 mean the bat, not the street car because if the fellow waa chasing teal street car he wud nathurally chase It from behind seat consequently couldn't be run over by the street oar unless he run over the street car which wouldn't hurt the street car env...
...subject to change of course...
...In fact I've seen more rows started over this Peace on Earth stuff than from practically any other cause...
...just look at the peepul in the street cars, do you ever see them smile or even grin to say nothing about laffing out loud...
...L Chaps, xlv...
...By 1856 It was disintegrating as the conflict between two fundamentally antagonistic social systems could not be ignored...
...taking it all around there is entirely too much statistical happiness in this country, all the great Americans like Andy Mellon and Herb Hoover and Cal Coolidge are talking about our prosperity, how many per capita dollars are circulating, how much mil ay Europe owes us, the billions that are tn banks and the surplus we have In the naahunal treasury, bat what good is riches when peepul can't laff and eat up eny more...
...Most of us famous characters like George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte and Henry Ward Beecher, who get written up, don't have the chance to tell the truth about ourselves...
...NEW PARTY ALIGNMENTS...
...Lmcpm received 180 electoral votes and was elected...
...And I grin back because we women know that men do a lot of hollering before they are really hurt and that it does them good to blow off steam every now and then and there's not much you can do about the Universe save accepting it...
...watch the crowds you meet in the street and do you ever see a merry twinkle tn as eye...
...There are some who can take Christmas in their stride...
...So I just discount all these gloomy tirades on the immorality of Modern Youth...
...The Supreme Court was one department that survived as a bulwark of the slave power, it had rendered many Important decisions, all tending to consolidate the Federal Government by binding the States into a Federal Union...
...Remnants of the Whig and Know-Nothlng parties nominated John BeQ of Tennessee, fatuously ***wrtnc tat "the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws...
...Government practically did not exist from November, 1860, to March, 1861, when Lincoln took office...
...Health from the workers' standpoint...
...Meantime many northern States were enacting "personal liberty laws" to prevent I fugitive slaves being surrendered to their owners...
...The author begins his history with a discussion of the biology of sex...
...In ^tbe fameus Dred Scott decision in March, 1857, the Court decided that Dred Scott, such a slave, was not a free man...
...New Viewpoints in American History," Chap...
...The Rise of American Civilisation," Vol...
...So I'm seising this opportunity to tell you that a whole lot of the stuff The Boss has written about me is sheer hooey...
...Many trade unions were prostrated during the Civil War, some disbanded, and the remainder maintained a precarious existence...
...3. How did Senator Douglas' Nebraska Bill affect the Missouri Compromise and what effect did the bill have on the people In the North...
...They put down their papers while the wife makes out the list and grunt occasionally in a helpful wav and then dig up some jack and let the little lady go out and get mauled to hell in the stores...
...Fillmore, 874,534...
...Ever your good little boy and buddy...
...On the other hand, in intellectual Athens, woman was degraded and*elassed with slaves, because philosophers declared her to be an enemy of Reason...
...It did not matter that the climate and geography of much of this empire were not suitable to slavery...
...Then there's another group who get f:l het up weeks before Christmas and bust around the place making elaborate cards with pictures of angels and funny-looking- saints on them and some such original sentiment as "Merry Christmas from Irma and Jacob Finkelstein...
...Both groups of settlers met in Kansas and bloody fueds followed, Kansas not being admitted to statehood till 1861...
...In Sparta, "the eugenlst paradise'', where women presented their babies to a "State Medical Board" which decided whether the infants should live or die, they had complete equality with men...
...Douglas, 1,376,957...
...83.50) is a most timely volume...
...well, santy claws, that's all 1 got to any for the present, give my beat wishes to all the folks as yaw go about—rich, poor, white, black, red, yellow, greed) and blue, wet and dry, jews, heathens, Christiana, atheists, saints, sinners, K. C.'s and K. K. K-'s...
...a letter to SANTA CLAUS T"|KER santy daws: '-.Jj *~* 1 take my pen in hand to letchu bo 1 dont weajjl any pieeants from u tnia year...
...the other Is with the Boardman Robinson's and from both I hear nothing but good reports although there was a time when I feared that their temperaments would get the better of them...
...Like most men, he is' a million or so miles off when It comes to analyzing women and if you throw cat complexes in with that, you can see for yourself how little he knows about our private thoughts, hopes, dreams and Utopias...
...Si) and see if you like our work...
...In 1857 Hlnton Rowan Helper's book, "The Impending Crisis of the South", appeared...
...A Radical Magazine For Workers...
...I have seen ten Christmases come and go and with them ten batches of kittens...
...Brawley, "A Social History of the American Negro," Chaps, xl, xil...
...FOB DISCUSSION Did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill hasten the final struggle between northern capitalism and southern slave owners...
...Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was nominated by the Democrats for President in 1852 and the Whigs nominated Wlnfleld Scott of New Jersey, a general in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War...
...SECESSION...
...4. What new political alignments were forming in the North...
...the next thing I want you to return to the A mar lean peepul is torn and jerry around Christmas tiros, it's aliright to be good to the kiddies around the festive occasion but why not bring a little cheer to the grown ups who foot the bills while you're at it...
...Why should I make sour-grape snoots now that the warmth of the radiator is more grateful to me than nights of carnival on the back fence...
...There la the true man's btrthplace grand His is the world-wide fatherland Where'er a stogie slave doth pine, Where'er one many may kelp another— Thank God for such a birthright, brother* That spot of earth is thine and mine...
...Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois in 1854 Introduced a bill In the Senate to organize a Territory to be named Nebraska north of the Missouri Compromise Line, The Missouri Compromise, it will be remembered, had declared all the territory north of 36 deg...
...Following the election of Lincoln South Carolina In December, 1860, declared that it was no longer one' of the United States...
...I In 16th century, Merrie England, Queen Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots, symbolized the htftrmtwtf of new liberties...
...During this period workers were winning the franchise...
...In ancient civilizations, woman's status was, on the whole, a good one...
...Liber, M. D., Dr...
...Now, santy, the first thine...
...The Free States now had 33 Senators and the Slave States 80...
...In place of fertility, the Church set up the worship of virginity...
...two years before the election of Lincoln...
...On the whole the book was unanswerable and one of Its chief offenses was its plea to millions of poverty-striken whites of the Slave States to overthrow the oligarchy of slave owners...
...QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 1. What were the respective attitudes of the Whig and Democratic parties on the Missouri Compromise in 1852...
...This decision also gave the slave power entry Into the old Oregon Country as well as a great domain between the Rocky Mountains and California south to the Mexican border...
...It depends on how you take it...
...The Dred Scott, decision said that Congress could not legislate slavery out of the territories...
...3. What was the American or KnowNothlng Party...
...t i But with either crowd there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm over the performance...
...The two old parties were seething with antislavery factions and in 1854 anti-slavery men of all parties began to organise the Republican Party to oppose any further territorial expansion of slavery...
...In the same year the American or Know-Nothlng Party appeared...
...A group of northern Democrats issued an appeal to the people, pointing out that the region threwn open to slavery' was larger by 83,000 square miles "then all the existing Free States, excluding California", that Us settlement would be retarded, that the progress of the Free States westward would be cheeked, that Inducements to wage workers would be destroyed, that the proposed railroad to the Pacific would pass through It and thdt "profitable returns" from investments would be diminished Northern capital realised the huge stake Involved just as the slave owners did...
...Fremont, 1,341,364...
...In Babylon four thousand years ago, women had legal status and divorce rights superior to those in some American states today...
...for the current issue or subscribe (6 months reduced trial sub...
...Doug! las, a Democrat, desired the support of the 8lave States in obtaining the nomination for President and his bill was a bid for their support...
...The Free Soil vote was cast for Fremont...
...Christinas Eve, large and illuminated sections of the Herrin citizenry came down the street with their artillery and then and there started a shooting competition which resulted in the Angel of Peace having her head blown off...
...Readings Beard...
...Then I received word the other day from a child by my fourteenth husband who is running a Socialist local in East New York to the effect that everything is jake by her...
...One is with a playwright in Westchester and...
...History of the People of the United States," Vol...
...He failed, was tried, convicted, and executed in the following December...
...In 1*52 they had 90 members in the House and the Free States had 144...
...In 1858 the Republicans elected 114 members of the House and the Democrats lost that body by electing only 87 members...
...Take this hullaballoo about the Younger Generation, fcr example...
...The limitations of this syllabus do not permit an account of the Civil War which ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, and the abolition of slavery...
...The popular vote was Lincoln...
...Senator Douglas's Nebraska Bill of 1854 had merely given slave owners an equal chance with opponents of slavery to win territory for slavery north of the Missouri Compromise Line...
...1366,452...
...The proposal created a storm of protest in the Free States...
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