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Description:Excerpt from The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism On the twelfth of April, 1861, a member of the Ohio Senate excitedly entered the chamber from the lobby and, catching the eye of the presiding officer, exclaimed: "Mr. President, the telegraph announces that the secessionists are bombarding Fort Sumter!" There was a solemn and painful hush which was in a moment broken by a woman's shrill voice from the spectators' seats, crying, "Glory to God!" The voice was that of Abby Kelly Foster who had been attending the sessions of the General Assembly in the interest of a bill enlarging the legal rights of women. She was a radical friend of the slave and, after years of agitation, had come to the conclusion that only by war could slavery be abolished. But to the members of the Senate, the cry of exultation was startling. It seemed almost as if an enemy were in the room. War to them was a scourge to be dreaded - too great a price to be paid for any good, save the preservation of the Union itself. While it was in Ohio that Benjamin Lundy had forty years before preached abolition in his Mt. Pleasant paper and organized his society to the same end, and while it was in this state, too, that Charles Hammond and James G. Birney had continued the agitation, winning many to the cause, Ohio - official Ohio at least - was not ready on that issue. Thomas Corwin, in Congress at the head of a committee of thirty-three representatives of the states, had formulated a program which would have prevented any interference by Congress with slavery, and the constitutional amendment that was involved had been ratified by the Ohio Legislature. Moreover, to establish friendly relations with the states immediately to the south, Governor Dennison and the Legislature of Ohio, in 1860, had invited the governors and legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee to be their guests in Columbus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism On the twelfth of April, 1861, a member of the Ohio Senate excitedly entered the chamber from the lobby and, catching the eye of the presiding officer, exclaimed: "Mr. President, the telegraph announces that the secessionists are bombarding Fort Sumter!" There was a solemn and painful hush which was in a moment broken by a woman's shrill voice from the spectators' seats, crying, "Glory to God!" The voice was that of Abby Kelly Foster who had been attending the sessions of the General Assembly in the interest of a bill enlarging the legal rights of women. She was a radical friend of the slave and, after years of agitation, had come to the conclusion that only by war could slavery be abolished. But to the members of the Senate, the cry of exultation was startling. It seemed almost as if an enemy were in the room. War to them was a scourge to be dreaded - too great a price to be paid for any good, save the preservation of the Union itself. While it was in Ohio that Benjamin Lundy had forty years before preached abolition in his Mt. Pleasant paper and organized his society to the same end, and while it was in this state, too, that Charles Hammond and James G. Birney had continued the agitation, winning many to the cause, Ohio - official Ohio at least - was not ready on that issue. Thomas Corwin, in Congress at the head of a committee of thirty-three representatives of the states, had formulated a program which would have prevented any interference by Congress with slavery, and the constitutional amendment that was involved had been ratified by the Ohio Legislature. Moreover, to establish friendly relations with the states immediately to the south, Governor Dennison and the Legislature of Ohio, in 1860, had invited the governors and legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee to be their guests in Columbus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Crisis and the Man: An Episode in Civil War Journalism (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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