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Title: Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913 Subjects: World history, Universal Civilization Publisher: New York City : World Syndicate Company, Inc. Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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Text Appearing After Image: Gladstone From a photograph Calhoun From .1 photograp Chief Characters of the Sixth Epoch 1095 of its perpetuity, while recognizing its incom-patibility with the freedom of thought and speechthat democracy had developed in the non-slave-holding States, Calhoun persuaded himself andhis followers that the daunting and restrainingof that freedom, on the one subject of slavery,was a practicable thing to do. For some yearsthere was astonishing success in their measures tothat end. Mere politicians were daunted andmade submissive to their resolute dictation. Theinevitable revolt of northern spirit was tardy andslow, but it grew. The voice that roused it most Quincywas the voice of John Quincy Adams, the vener- JjJSJJLgable ex-president, who would not and could notbe silenced on the floor of congress, in his vindica-tion of the constitutional right of petition, whichthe Calhounists had denied. Then came the period of a dozen years in whichthe old parties crumbled steadily, and the politi-cal

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