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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Half a Century, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Half a Century Author: Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12052] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HALF A CENTURY *** Produced by Shawn Cruze and PG Distributed Proofreaders HALF A CENTURY. BY JANE GREY SWISSHELM. * * * * * "God so willed: Mankind is ignorant! a man am I: Call ignorance my sorrow, not my sin!" "O, still as ever friends are they Who, in the interest of outraged truth Deprecate such rough handling of a lie!" ROBERT BROWNING. 1880. PREFACE. It has been assumed, and is generally believed, that the Anti-slavery struggle, which, culminated in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, originated in Infidelity, and was a triumph of Skepticism over Christianity. In no way can this error be so well corrected as by the personal history of those who took part in that struggle; and as most of them have passed from earth without leaving any record of the education and motives which underlay their action, the duty they neglected becomes doubly incumbent on the few who remain. To supply one quota of the inside history of the great Abolition war, is the primary object of this work; but scarcely secondary to this object is that of recording incidents characteristic of the Peculiar Institution overthrown in that struggle. Another object, and one which struggles for precedence, is to give an inside history of the hospitals during the war of the Rebellion, that the American people may not forget the cost of that Government so often imperiled through their indifference. A third object, is to give an analysis of the ground which produced the Woman's Rights agitation, and the causes which limited its influence. A fourth is, to illustrate the force of education and the mutability of human character, by a personal narrative of one who, in 1836, would have broken an engagement rather than permit her name to appear in print, even in the announcem
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