The American War: A Lecture to Working Men

28 CORNHILL Abolitionists and Republicans Abraham Lincoln admitted advance American Anti-Slavery avowed bear in mind Britain chattels chiefly claim colonies seceded compelled Confederates cotton declared decreed that slavery domestic institutions Dred Scott election of 1860 emancipation empire ENGLAND BE ENLISTED escape extension of slavery favor of free-trade Federal army fighting Fort Sumter free society friends of freedom Fugitive Slave Law fundamental principle Harper's Ferry HARVARD COLLEGE human impossible increased insults labor land limits Lincoln master McClellan Mexico Missouri national existence negro slave never nigger nobly patient North and South Northern oppressed peace plea population Potomac President whose opinions proclaim protectionists punish question Republican party restore the Union retained right of rebellion sanguinary says secure seized separate slave-owner slaveholding SOUTH A RIGHT Southern struggle subsist with little suppression taxation Territories threaten tion took true to liberty tyranny utter Virginia waged workmen