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Title: History of the lower Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, their early settlement and progress to the present time; geological features; a description of their historic and interesting localities; cities, towns and villages; portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Norris, J. E., ed
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Publisher: Chicago (etc.) A. Warner & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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higher law of humanity rather than constitu-tional law, while Southern leaders, on the other hand, were strict con-structionists of the constitution. An honest difference of opinionexisted between the masses North and South, which only a more inti-mate acquaintance could have prevented. The Southerners hadalways been distinguished for their patriotism, and in the wars of theEevolution, of 1812 and with Mexico, they had done their full shareof the fighting. Ever ready to make almost any sacrifice for the pres-ervation of the Union, they submitted to the oppressions of a pro-tective tariff, and yielded up the right of settlement with their prop-erty to that vast portion of the public domain north of 36° 30. Butthe opposition to slavery continued to increase until it became a revo-lution, of which the Civil war was but an incident and natural conse-quence. Emissaries were sent into the Southern States to spread discontentamong the negroes; books were written depicting the very worst and
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THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD. 509 exceptional phases of slavery, without a word of the good, known toall Southerners; underground railroads were established in allthe border counties of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana for running offnegroes; personal liberty bills were passed ; decisions of the SupremeCourt were derided and set at naught, and the constitution wasdenounced as a covenant with hell, The Republican became thedominant party of the country, and the Abolition wing of that partyhad grown to be its controlling spirit. The people of the South viewed with alarm the rapid growth ofthe anti-slavery sentiment prior to and during the canvass of 1860,and were made to feel the full force of what Abraham Lincoln hadsaid, that the Union could not exist part slave and part free. Offersto compromise were rejected by the Kepublicans, and it became evi-dent to observing minds that unless the South took immediate actionthe control of their slave property must soon pass out of their hands.Its value in

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