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Title: Six thousand years of history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia : E.R. DuMont
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d construction,often unjustified. Indeed, industrial progress was upto that time almost unparalleled in this decade in spiteof stonny politics, and the panic of 1857 only partiallychecked it. A significant event of the year was the refusal of theBoston authorities to allow Webster to speak in FanueilHall because of his attitude on the Compromises.Hitherto Boston had been slow to sympathize with theanti-slavery sentiment, and many men of high so-cial standing were ostracized for agreeing with Will-iam Lloyd Garrison. But now the situation waschanged. When a runaway slave who had longlived in Boston was seized to be returned to sla-very, a mass meeting was held in Fanueil Hall,and the speech of Charles Sumner on that occa-sion against ihe fugitive slave law presently madehim a United States Senator. But the spirit of opposi-tion, North and South, soon cooled down, and there wasa disposition on both sides to give the Compromise afair trial, with the result that in the Northern States the
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WHIG PARTY BREAKING UP 201 Democracy made large gains in local elections, due toWhig dissensions. The visit of Louis Kossuth, theHungarian patriot, in 1851-52, roused the country to afurore of enthusiasm such as it had not felt since Lafay-ettes famous triumphal procession through the States.Kossuth had failed to free Hungary because of foreignintervention, and he came to this country almost anofficial guest. His ulterior motive was to get materialaid to renew his efiforts in Hungary, but he kept this fora long time in the background. He was feasted andfeted in many parts of the country, but when his realmission was disclosed he found personal sympathy, butno material aid, though some remarkable resolutions,offensive to European Nations, were offered in Con-gress. He left this country personally gratified withthe warmth of his reception, but disappointed in hishopes. When Congress opened, in December, 1851, it wasfound that the Whigs had but twenty-four members ofthe Senate as against

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