Chapter VI: �henry Wilson

Lincoln, Chase and Wilson as Illustrations of Democracy�Wilson's Birth and Boyhood�Reads over One Thousand Books in Ten Years�Learns Shoemaking�Earns an Education Twice Over�Forms a Debating Society�Makes Sixty Speeches for Harrison�Enters into Political Life on the Working-Men's Side�Helps to form the Free Soil Party�Chosen United States Senator over Edward Everett�Aristocratic Politics in those Days�Wilson and the Slaveholding Senators�The Character of his Speaking�Full of Facts and Practical Sense�His Usefulness as Chairman of the Military Committee�His "History of the Anti-Slavery Measures in Congress"�The 37th and 38th Congresses�The Summary of Anti-Slavery Legislation from that Book�Other Abolitionist Forces�Contrast of Sentiments of Slavery and of Freedom�Recognition of Hayti and Liberia; Specimen of the Debate�Slave and Free Doctrine on Education�Equality in Washington Street Cars�Pro-Slavery Good Taste�Solon's Ideal of Democracy Reached in America. 269 xi