CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | [3] | |
| I. | Secession and Its Doctrine | [15] |
| II. | Emancipation Prior to 1831 | [37] |
| III. | The New Abolitionists | [56] |
| IV. | Feeling in the South—1835 | [77] |
| V. | Anti-Abolition at the North | [84] |
| VI. | A Crisis and a Compromise | [93] |
| VII. | Efforts for Peace | [128] |
| VIII. | Incompatibility of Slavery and Freedom | [147] |
| IX. | Four Years of War | [180] |
| X. | Reconstruction, Lincoln-Johnson Plan and Congressional | [208] |
| XI. | The South under Self-Government | [229] |
| Index | [245] |
THE ABOLITION CRUSADE AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES
INTRODUCTION
The Constitution of the United States attempts to define and limit the power of our Federal Government.
Lord Brougham somewhere said that such an instrument was not worth the parchment it was written on; people would pay no regard to self-imposed limitations on their own will.