d the preachers
in their pulpits to assemble the youth of the nation, and drill them in
the history of industrial democracy, and of political liberty. If our
youth are to make the twentieth century glorious, they must realize the
continuity of our institutions, and often return to the nineteenth
century and the Anti-Slavery epoch. The phrase, "For God, home and
native land," is often on the lips of our teachers. Love towards God
gives religion; the love of home gives marriage; the love of country,
patriotism. But patriotism is a fire that must be fed with the fuel of
ideas. These chapters are written in the belief that the youth of to-day
will find in the history of their fathers a storehouse filled with seed
for a world sowing, an armoury filled with weapons for to-morrow's
battle, a library rich with wisdom for the morrow's emergency, a
cathedral, bright with memorials of yesterday's heroes, its soldiers and
scholars, its statesmen, and above all, its martyred President.

NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.

_Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y._

Contents

I. Rise of American Slavery: Growth of
the Traffic 11

II. Webster and Calhoun: The Battle Line
in Array 40

III. Garrison and Phillips: Anti-Slavery
Agitation 68

IV. Charles Sumner: The Appeal to Educated
Men 95

V. Horace Greeley: The Appeal to the
Common People 117

VI. Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown:
The Conflict Precipitated 136

VII. Lincoln and Douglas: Influence of the
Great Debate 160

VIII. Reasons for Secession: Southern Leaders 188

IX. Henry Ward Beecher: The Appeal to
England 212

X. Heroes of Battle: American Soldiers
and Sailors 242

XI. The Life of the People at Home Who
Supported the Soldiers at the Front 263

XII. Abraham Lincoln: The Martyred President 288

INDEX