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Title: With Lyon in Missouri
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald), 1842-1926 R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. prt De Lay, H. S
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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candidates. The country was wild with excitement. Monstermass-meetings were held, attended by vast multi-tudes. Thousands of men marched in processioncarrying flaming torches. The flood-gates of oratorywere opened, and the country was deluged withspeeches. Although his party was divided, Douglas hadhopes of being elected; he made a strong appeal tothe country, claiming that his election was the onlysalvation for the Union. Lincoln did not dodge the situation, offered nocompromise. A house divided against itself, hecried, cannot stand. This nation must eventuallybecome all slave, or all free. Which shall it be?He declared that the Republican party had no in-tention of disturbing slavery where it was, but theremust be no more slave territory. The South claimed that all the Territories should be open to slavery, and thus the issues were joined. Elect Lincoln, and we will withdraw from the Union, as we have a perfect right to do under the Constitution, was the threat which the South con-
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He received a blow between the eyes that sent him sprawling THE NEW YORK LIBRARY ASTOR. FOUR YEARS AFTER 139 stantly made. The great mass of the people of theNorth thought that these were only idle rumorsmeant to frighten, but there were those who felt thatthe South was in deadly earnest, and looked on thefuture with deep foreboding. The academy which Lawrence attended was prin-cipally patronized by the richest and most aristo-cratic portion of St. Louis, therefore it was a hotbedof Southern sentiment. The political excitementextended to the boys, and they were even more vio-lent than their elders. Douglas clubs, Breckenridgeclubs, and Bell clubs were formed. Lincoln had noopen advocates in the academy. Which club will you join? asked one of hisschoolmates of Lawrence. If I joined any, I should join the Douglas club,said Lawrence. Uncle says the election of Doug-las is the only thing that will preserve the Union. Oh, shucks! exclaimed a fervid Bell boy, electJohn Bell. He is the only

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