Word: abolitionist
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...story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that...
...Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain...
...when Artist Bingham was State Treasurer of Missouri, the Union Troops on the border were commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Ewing, lawyer and abolitionist from Ohio. To clear the Kansas-Missouri border of armed gangs that infested the territory, General Ewing issued Order No. 11, declaring martial law and decreeing the complete evacuation within 15 days of the population of the border counties. All the hardships that follow any mass emigration ensued. Many of the ousted settlers were friends of Artist Bingham who swore to make General Ewing "forever infamous...
...June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed and reunionize the Union. Only a cunning Washington correspondent of arch-Abolitionist Publisher Horace Greeley prevented them from selling the scheme to President Lincoln...
...drama which entertains, although it does not always convince, by placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator...