Chapter I: The Slavery Question

TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, John Greenleaf Whittier 385
CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, John Greenleaf Whittier 385
THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, James Russell Lowell 386
ICHABOD, John Greenleaf Whittier 388
THE KIDNAPPING OF SIMS, John Pierpont 388
THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, John Greenleaf Whittier 389
BURIAL OF BARBER, John Greenleaf Whittier 389
THE DEFENCE OF LAWRENCE, Richard Realf 390
THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, Unknown 391
LE MARAIS DU CYGNE, John Greenleaf Whittier 392
HOW OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER'S FERRY, Edmund Clarence Stedman 393
THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, Henry Howard Brownell 395
BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE, John Greenleaf Whittier 396
GLORY HALLELUJAH! OR JOHN BROWN'S BODY, Charles Sprague Hall 397
JOHN BROWN, Edna Dean Proctor 397
JOHN BROWN: A PARADOX, Louise Imogen Guiney 397
LECOMPTON'S BLACK BRIGADE, Charles Graham Halpine 398
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, Edwin Markham 399
BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE, Oliver Wendell
Holmes 400
JEFFERSON D., H. S. Cornwell 401
THE OLD COVE, Henry Howard Brownell 401
A SPOOL OF THREAD, Sophie E. Eastman 402
GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT, Francis DeHaes Janvier 403