The Great Conspiracy | Page 2

D. C.

April 15, 1886.

CONTENTS.
[For detailed Table of Contents see below]

CHAPTER.
I. A Preliminary Retrospect,
II. Protection, and Free Trade,
III. Growth of the Slavery Question,
IV. Popular Sovereignty,
V. Presidential Contest of 1860,
VI. The Great Conspiracy Maturing,
VII. "Secession" Arming,
VIII. The Rejected Olive Branch,
IX. Slavery's Setting Sun,
X. The War Drum--"On to Washington,"
XI. Causes of Secession
XII. Copperheadism vs. Union-Democracy,
XIII. The Storm of Battle,
XIV. The Colored Contraband,
XV. Freedom's Early Dawn,

XVI. Compensated, Gradual, Emancipation,
XVII. Border-State Opposition,
XVIII. Freedom Proclaimed to All,
XIX. Historical Review,
XX. Lincoln's Troubles and Temptations,
XXI. The Armed Negro
XXII. Freedom's Sun still Rising,
XXIII. Thirteenth Amendment Passes the Senate
XXIV. Treason in the Northern Camp,
XXV. The "Fire in the Rear,"
XXVI. Thirteenth Amendment Defeated in House,
XXVII. Slavery Doomed at the Polls,
XXVIII. Freedom at last Assured,
XXIX. Lincoln's Second Inauguration,
XXX. Collapse of Armed Conspiracy,
XXXI. Assassination!
XXXII. Turning Back the Hands,
XXXIII. What Next?
CHAPTER I.
A PRELIMINARY RETROSPECT.

AFRICAN SLAVERY IN AMERICA IN 1620--CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND IN
1699--GEORGIAN ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY IN
1775--JEFFERSON AND THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE--SLAVERY A SOURCE OF WEAKNESS IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR--THE SESSION BY VIRGINIA OF THE
GREAT NORTH-WEST--THE ORDINANCE OF 1784 AND ITS
FAILURE--THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 AND ITS
ADOPTION--THE GERM OF SLAVERY AGITATION
PLANTED--THE QUESTION IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION--SUBTERFUGES OF THE OLD
CONSTITUTION--THE BULLDOZING OF THE FATHERS--THE
FIRST FEDERAL CONGRESS, 1789--CONDITIONS OF
TERRITORIAL CESSIONS FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND
GEORGIA, 1789-1802--THE "COLONY OF LOUISIANA"
(MISSISSIPPI VALLEY) PURCHASE OF 1803--THE TREATY
--CONDITIONS TOUCHING SLAVERY--THE COTTON
INDUSTRY REVOLUTIONIZED--RAPID POPULATING OF THE
GREAT VALLEY, BY SLAVEHOLDERS AND
SLAVES--JEFFERSON'S APPARENT INCONSISTENCY
EXPLAINED--THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE--
MULTIPLICATION OF SLAVES--LOUISIANA ADMITTED, 1812,
AS A STATE--THE TERRITORY OF MISSOURI--THE MISSOURI
STRUGGLE (1818-1820) IN A NUTSHELL-- THE "MISSOURI
COMPROMISE"
CHAPTER II.
PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE.
CHIEF CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION--OUR
INDEPENDENCE, INDUSTRIAL AS WELL AS
POLITICAL--FAILURE OF THE CONFEDERATION DUE TO
LACK OF INDUSTRIAL PROTECTION--MADISON'S TARIFF
ACT OF 1789--HAMILTON'S TARIFF OF 1790--SOUTHERN
STATESMEN AND SOUTHERN VOTES FOR EARLY TARIFFS--
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON ON "PROTECTION

"--EMBARGO OF 1807-8--WAR OF 1812-15--CONSEQUENT
INCREASE OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES--BROUGHAM'S
PLAN-- RUIN THREATENED BY GLUT OF BRITISH
GOODS--TARIFF ACT OF 1816--CALHOUN'S DEFENSE OF
"PROTECTION"--NEW ENGLAND AGAINST THAT ACT--THE
SOUTH SECURES ITS PASSAGE--THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
ACTS OF 1824 AND 1828--SUBSEQUENT PROSPERITY IN FREE
STATES--THE BLIGHT OF SLAVERY--BIRTH OF THE FREE
TRADE HERESY IN THE UNITED STATES IN
1797--SIMULTANEOUS BIRTH OF THE HERESY OF STATE
RIGHTS--KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS OF 1798--VIRGINIA
RESOLUTIONS OF 1799--JEFFERSON'S REAL PURPOSE IN
FORMULATING THEM-- ACTIVITY OF THE FEW SOUTHERN
FREE TRADERS--PLAUSIBLE ARGUMENTS AGAINST
"PROTECTION"--INGENIOUS METHODS OF "FIRING THE
SOUTHERN HEART"--SOUTHERN DISCONTENT WITH TARIFF
OF 1824--INFLAMMATORY UTTERANCES--ARMED
RESISTANCE URGED TO TARIFF OF 1828--WALTERBOROUGH
ANTI-PROTECTIVE TARIFF ADDRESS--FREE TRADE AND
NULLIFICATION ADVOCACY APPEARS IN CONGRESS--THE
HAYNE-WEBSTER DEBATE--MODIFIED PROTECTIVE TARIFF
OF 1832--SOUTH CAROLINA'S NULLIFICATION
ORDINANCE--HAYNE ELECTED GOVERNOR OF SOUTH
CAROLINA--HERESY OF "PARAMOUNT ALLEGIANCE TO THE
STATE"--SOUTH CAROLINA ARMS HERSELF--PRESIDENT
JACKSON STAMPS OUT SOUTHERN TREASON--CLAY'S
COMPROMISE TARIFF OF 1833--CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S
SOLEMN WARNING-- JACKSON'S FORECAST
CHAPTER III.
GROWTH OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
"EMANCIPATION" IN NORTHERN AND MIDDLE
STATES--VIRGINIA'S UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT--CESSION OF
THE FLORIDAS, 1819--BALANCE OF POWER--ADMISSION OF
ARKANSAS,1836--SOUTHERN SLAVE HOLDERS'

COLONIZATION OF TEXAS--TEXAN INDEPENDENCE,
1837--CALHOUN'S SECOND AND GREAT
CONSPIRACY--DETERMINATION BEFORE 1839 TO
SECEDE--PROTECTIVE TARIFF FEATURES AGAIN THE
PRETEXT-- CALHOUN, IN 1841, ASKING THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT FOR AID--NORTHERN OPPOSITION TO
ACQUISITION OF TEXAS--RATIONALE OF THE LOUISIANA
AND FLORIDA ACQUISITIONS--PROPOSED EXTENSION OF
SLAVERY LIMITS--WEBSTER WARNS THE
SOUTH--DISASTERS FOLLOWING COMPROMISE TARIFF OF
1833-- INDUSTRIAL RUIN OF 1840--ELECTION AND DEATH OF
HARRISON--PROTECTIVE TARIFF OF 1842--POLK'S
CAMPAIGN OF 1844--CLAY'S BLUNDER AND POLK'S
CRIME--SOUTHERN TREACHERY--THE NORTH
HOODWINKED--POLK ELECTED BY ABOLITION
VOTE--SLAVE-HOLDING TEXAS UNDER A SHAM
"COMPROMISE"--WAR WITH MEXICO--FREE-TRADE TARIFF
OF 1846--WILMOT PROVISO--TREATY OF GUADALUPE--
HIDALGO--SLAVERY CONTEST IN CONGRESS STILL
GROWING --COMPROMISE OF 1850 --A LULL--FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW--NEBRASKA BILL OF
1852-3--KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL, 1853-4,
REPORTED--PARLIAMENTARY "JUGGLERY"--THE TRIUMPH
OF SLAVERY, IN CONGRESS--BLEEDING KANSAS--TOPEKA
CONSTITUTION, 1855--KANSAS LEGISLATURE DISPERSED,
1856, BY UNITED STATES TROOPS--LECOMPTON
CONSTITUTION OF 1857--FRAUDULENT TRIUMPH OF
SLAVERY CONSTITUTION--ITS SUBSEQUENT
DEFEAT--ELECTION OF BUCHANAN, 1856--KANSAS
ADMITTED--MISERY AND RUIN CAUSED BY FREE-TRADE
TARIFF OF 1846--FILLMORE AND BUCHANAN TESTIFY
CHAPTER IV.
"POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY."
DOUGLAS'S THEORY OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY--ILLINOIS

LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENT OF IT, 1851--DOUGLAS'S
POSITION ON KANSAS--NEBRASKA BILL, 1854--DRED SCOTT
DECISION--SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION OF 1858--LINCOLN'S REMARKABLE SPEECH
TO THE CONVENTION--PIERCE AND BUCHANAN, TANEY
AND DOUGLAS, CHARGED WITH PRO-SLAVERY
CONSPIRACY-- DOUGLAS'S GREAT SPEECH (JULY 9TH, 1858)
AT CHICAGO, IN REPLY--LINCOLN'S POWERFUL REJOINDER,
AT CHICAGO, (JULY 10TH)--THE ADMIXTURE OF
RACES--THE VOTING "UP OR DOWN" OF SLAVERY--THE
"ARGUMENTS OF KINGS"--TRUTHS OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE--DOUGLAS'S BLOOMINGTON SPEECH
(JULY 16TH), OF VINDICATION AND ATTACK--HISTORY OF
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA STRUGGLE--THE UNHOLY
ALLIANCE--THE TWO POINTS AT ISSUE--THE "WHITE MAN'S"
COUNTRY-- DOUGLAS'S PLEDGES TO WEBSTER AND
CLAY--DOUGLAS'S SPRINGFIELD SPEECH, JULY 17TH--THE
IRRECONCILABLE PRINCIPLES AT ISSUE BETWEEN LINCOLN
AND HIMSELF--LINCOLN'S GREAT SPEECH, AT SPRINGFIELD,
THE SAME EVENING-- DOUGLAS'S TRIUMPHANT MARCHES
AND ENTRIES--THE "OFFICES SEEN IN HIS ROUND, JOLLY,
FRUITFUL FACE"--LINCOLN'S LEAN-FACED FIGHT, FOR
PRINCIPLE