"The Missing Link"

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from "The Missing Link": What Led to the War, or the Secret History of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill That the people of to-day may know the importance of that bill, it is necessary that a brief sketch be given of the slavery question. The writer desires to say - and it is due to the reader - that he was in 1854 in a position to know many facts and incidents connected with this bill which were not accessi ble to the public, or even to the press of the country. He believes only one other person, perhaps two, to be now living, familiar with the origin and secret history of the Kansas Nebraska bill. He may also add that he is familiar with, and has taken part in, the slavery agitation since 1819 and 1820, and that he was a slave-holder until the late war. As early as 1835 he was convinced that slavery was one of the greatest evils we had to contend with, and the greatest bar rier to national prosperity. These views were obtained by observations made in extensive travels through the Southern and Western States. He, however, disapproved of the slavery agitation as conducted by Garrison and his co-workers. He believed that their course delayed the emancipation of the slaves, so much desired by some of the most distinguished men - slave owners - in Virginia, in 1831 and 1832, who were then endeavoring to devise some scheme for gradual emancio pafion. 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.