. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ab-lished in 1789 had to fight the seces-sionist efforts of the confederated slave-holding states. We have traced the causesof that great struggle in chapter xxxvii,§ 6 ; its course we cannot relate here, nortell how President Lincoln (born 1809, died1865, president from 1861) rose to greatness,how the republic was cleansed from the stain of slavery, and how the federalgovernment of the union was preserved. For four long years (1861-65) this warswung to and fro, through the rich woodsand over the hills of Virginia betweenWas
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. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ab-lished in 1789 had to fight the seces-sionist efforts of the confederated slave-holding states. We have traced the causesof that great struggle in chapter xxxvii, § 6 ; its course we cannot relate here, nortell how President Lincoln (born 1809, died1865, president from 1861) rose to greatness, how the republic was cleansed from the stain of slavery, and how the federalgovernment of the union was preserved. For four long years (1861-65) this warswung to and fro, through the rich woodsand over the hills of Virginia betweenWashington and Richmond, until at last thesecessionist left was thrust back and broken, and Sherman, the unionist general, sweptacross Georgia to the sea in the rear of themain confederate (secessionist) armies. Allthe elements of reaction in Europe rejoicedduring the four years of republican dissen-sion ; the British aristocracy openly sidedwith the confederate states, and the BritishGovernment permitted several privateers, and particularly the Alabama, to be launched. in England to attack the federal shipping.Napoleon III was even more rash in hisassumption that after all the new worldhad fallen before the old. The sure shieldof the Monroe doctrine, it seemed to him, was thrust aside for good, the Great Powersmight meddle again in America, and theblessings of an adventurous monarchy berestored there. A pretext for interferencewas found in certain liberties taken with theproperty of foreigners by the Mexican presi-dent. A joint expedition of French, British, and Spanish occupied Vera Cruz, but Napo-leons projects were too bold for his allies, and they withdrew when it became clearthat he contemplated nothing less than theestablishment of a Mexican empire. This hedid, after much stiff fighting, making theArchduke Maximilian of Austria, Emperorof Mexico in 1864. The French forces, how--ever, remained in effectual possession of thecountry, and a crowd of French speculatorspoured into Me