TY - SER AU - Hillis, Newell Dwight, TI - The Battle of Principles : : AV - E456 PY - 2006/// PB - Project Gutenberg, KW - Antislavery movements -- United States KW - United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 N1 - Rise of American slavery: growth of the traffic -- Webster and Calhoun: the battle line in array -- Garrison and Phillips: anti-slavery agitation -- Charles Sumner: the appeal to educated men -- Horace Greeley: the appeal to the common people -- Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown: the conflict precipitated -- Lincoln and Douglas: influence of the great debate -- Reasons for secession: southern leaders -- Henry Ward Beecher: the appeal to England -- Heroes of battle: American soldiers and sailors -- The life of the people at home who supported the soldiers at the front -- Abraham Lincoln: the martyred President; Public domain in the USA; Text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18557 ER -