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Emerson Hough. The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
Table of Contents
Chapter I A LADY IN COMPANY II THE GATEWAY AND SOME WHO PASSED III THE QUESTION IV THE GAME V SPOLIA OPIMA VI THE NEW MASTER VII A CONFUSION IN CHATTELS VIII THE SHADOW CABINET IX TALLWOODS X FREE AND THRALL XI THE GARMENTS OF ANOTHER XII THE NIGHT XIII THE INVASION XIV THE ARGUMENT XV THE ARBITRAMENT XVI THE ADJUDICATION XVII THE LADY AT TALLWOODS XVIII ON PAROLE XIX THE ENEMY XX THE ART OF DOCTOR JAMIESON XXI THE PAYMENT XXII THE WAY OF A MAID XXIII IN WASHINGTON XXIV IN THE NAME OF ALTRUISM XXV THE ARTFUL GENTLEMAN PROM KENTUCKY XXVI THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK XXVII A SPLENDID FAILURE XXVIII IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT XXIX IN OLD ST. GENEVIEVE XXX THE TURNCOAT XXXI THE SPECTER IN THE HOUSE. CHAPTER I
A LADY IN COMPANY
CHAPTER II
THE GATEWAY, AND SOME WHO PASSED
CHAPTER III
THE QUESTION
CHAPTER IV
THE GAME
CHAPTER V
SPOLIA OPIMA
CHAPTER VI
THE NEW MASTER
CHAPTER VII
A CONFUSION IN CHATTELS
CHAPTER VIII
THE SHADOW CABINET
CHAPTER IX
TALLWOODS
CHAPTER X
FREE AND THRALL
CHAPTER XI
THE GARMENTS OF ANOTHER
CHAPTER XII
THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XIII
THE INVASION
CHAPTER XIV
THE ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XV
THE ARBITRAMENT
CHAPTER XVI
THE ADJUDICATION
CHAPTER XVII
THE LADY AT TALLWOODS
CHAPTER XVIII
ON PAROLE
CHAPTER XIX
THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XX
THE ART OF DOCTOR JAMIESON
CHAPTER XXI
THE PAYMENT
CHAPTER XXII
THE WAY OF A MAID
CHAPTER XXIII
IM WASHINGTON
CHAPTER XXIV
IN THE NAME OF ALTRUISM
CHAPTER XXV
THE ARTFUL GENTLEMAN PROM KENTUCKY
CHAPTER XXVI
THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK
CHAPTER XXVII
A SPLENDID FAILURE
CHAPTER XXVIII
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
"MY DEAR MADAME:
"JEANNE."
CHAPTER XXIX
IN OLD ST. GENEVIEVE
CHAPTER XXX
THE TURNCOAT
CHAPTER XXXI
THE SPECTER IN THE HOUSE
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Emerson Hough
Published by Good Press, 2019
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North of the fated compromise line, west of the admitted slave state of Missouri, lay other rich lands ripe for the plow, ready for Americans who had never paid more than a dollar an acre for land, or for aliens who had never been able to own any land at all. Kansas and Nebraska, names conceived but not yet born—what would they be? Would the compromise of this last summer of 1850 hold the balances of power even? Could it save this republic, still young and needy, for yet a time in the cause of peace and growth? Many devoutly hoped it. Many devoutly espoused the cause of compromise merely for the sake of gaining time. As neither of the great political parties of the day filled its ranks from either section, so in both sections there were many who espoused, as many who denied, the right of men to own slaves. We speak of slavery as the one great question of that day. It was not and never has been the greatest. The question of democracy—that was even then, and it is now, the greatest question.
Here on the deck of the steamer at the little city of Pittsburg, then gateway of the West, there appeared men of purposes and beliefs as mixed as this mixed country from which they came. Some were pushing out into what now is known as Kansas, others going to take up lands in Missouri. Some were to pass south to the slave country, others north to the free lands; men of all sorts and conditions, many men, of many minds, that was true, and all hurrying into new lands, new problems, new dangers, new remedies. It was a great and splendid day, a great and vital time, that threshold-time, when our western traffic increased so rapidly and assuredly that steamers scarcely could be built rapidly enough to accommodate it, and the young rails leaped westward at a speed before then unknown in the world.
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