The Crisis

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THE CRISIS
By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS
BOOK I
Volume 1. I. Which Deals With Origins II. The Mole III. The
Unattainable Simplicity IV. Black Cattle V. The First Spark Passes VI.
Silas Whipple VII. Callers
Volume 2. VIII. Bellegarde IX. A Quiet Sunday in Locust Street X.
The Little House XI. The Invitation XII. "Miss Jinny" XIII. The Party

BOOK II.
Volume 3. I. Raw Material. II. Abraham Lincoln III. In Which Stephen
Learns Something IV. The Question V. The Crisis VI. Glencoe
Volume 4. VII. An Excursion VIII. The Colonel is Warned IX. Signs of
the Times X. Richter's Scar, XI. How a Prince Came XII. Into Which a
Potentate Comes XIII. At Mr. Brinsmade's Gate XIV. The Breach
becomes Too Wide XV. Mutterings
Volume 5. XVI. The Guns of Sumter XVII. Camp Jackson XVIII. The
Stone that is Rejected XIX. The Tenth of May. XX. In the Arsenal XXI.
The Stampede XXII. The Straining of Another Friendship XXIII. Of
Clarence
BOOK III
Volume 6. I. Introducing a Capitalist II. News from Clarence III. The
Scourge of War, IV. The List of Sixty V. The Auction VI. Eliphalet
Plays his Trumps
Volume 7. VII. With the Armies of the West VIII. A Strange Meeting
IX. Bellegarde Once More X. In Judge Whipple's Office XI. Lead,
Kindly Light
Volume 8. XII. The Last Card XIII. From the Letters of Major Stephen
Brice XIV. The Same, Continued XV. The Man of Sorrows XVI.
Annapolis

THE CRISIS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
WHICH DEALS WITH ORIGINS

Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to
betray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his
daughter- in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence, for
he is a shameless and determined old party who denies the divine right
of Boston, and has taken again to chewing tobacco.
When Eliphalet came to town, his son's wife, Mrs: Samuel D. (or S.
Dwyer as she is beginning to call herself), was not born. Gentlemen of
Cavalier and Puritan descent had not yet begun to arrive at the Planters'
House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and bowies, and
depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most pleasurable of
Anglo- Saxon pastimes, a free fight. Mr. Douglas had not thrown his
bone of Local Sovereignty to the sleeping dogs of war.
To return to Eliphalet's arrival,--a picture which has much that is
interesting in it. Behold the friendless boy he stands in the prow of the
great steamboat 'Louisiana' of a scorching summer morning, and looks
with something of a nameless disquiet on the chocolate waters of the
Mississippi. There have been other sights, since passing Louisville,
which might have disgusted a Massachusetts lad more. A certain deck
on the 'Paducah', which took him as far as Cairo, was devoted to
cattle-- black cattle. Eliphalet possessed a fortunate temperament. The
deck was dark, and the smell of the wretches confined there was worse
than it should have been. And the incessant weeping of some of the
women was annoying, inasmuch as it drowned many of