Opinion by Ted Genoways: In 1859, before the country spiraled into armed battle, the House convened three days after John Brown was hanged for orchestrating the raid at Harpers Ferry.
The most recent of these, the last before a wave of Southern secessions sent the country spiraling into armed battle with itself, convened just three days after John Brown had been hanged for orchestrating the raid at Harpers Ferry.
The second-place Republican withdrew his name, which seemed to guarantee Sherman’s election on the second ballot. But before another vote could be held,Advertisement,” a book published two years earlier. The controversial work had been banned in several Southern states in the wake of Harpers Ferry, because it called on poor non-slaveholders in the South to support the legal dissolution of slavery rather than pushing the country ever closer toward a war that did not directly affect them.
A fellow Democrat, Sheldon F. Leake of Virginia, was even blunter. “We on this side, are entitled to know,” he said, “whether we are to elect a man who, while I am here in the discharge of my public duties, is stimulating my negroes at home to apply the torch to my dwelling and the knife to the throats of my wife and helpless children.” George W. Palmer of New York criticized Clark for “having thrust the negro before the House.
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