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  AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM,
  FROM 1787 TO 1861.

  A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORICAL FACTS,
  EMBRACING LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS
  AND AGITATION WITHOUT.

  (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK HERALD.)

  BY F. G. DE FONTAINE.

  NEW YORK:
  D. APPLETON & CO.
  1861.

  PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.




  HISTORY OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM;

  Its Four Great Epochs,

  EMBRACING NARRATIVES OF THE

  ORDINANCE OF 1787,
  COMPROMISE OF 1820,
  ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,
  MEXICAN WAR,
  WILMOT PROVISO,
  <DW64> INSURRECTIONS,
  ABOLITION RIOTS,
  SLAVE RESCUES,
  COMPROMISE OF 1850,
  KANSAS BILL OF 1854,
  JOHN BROWN INSURRECTION, 1859,
  VALUABLE STATISTICS,
  &c., &c., &c.


  TOGETHER WITH A
  HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.


  (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK HERALD.)


  BY F. G. DE FONTAINE.


  _NEW YORK_:
  D. APPLETON & Co.
  1861.




  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year
  one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,

  BY F. G. DE FONTAINE,

  in the Clerk's