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Excerpt from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch; With Some Account of the Commemoration of These Events, September, 9, 1911
If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can it be the cause of special wonder that a hand ful of Marylanders in lawful search of their escaped prop erty, and a larger group of free and fugitive negroes, with the embattled farmers who sympathized with them, should have made the hills of this peaceful Chester Valley echo with gun Shots and stained its soil with blood, when Man and Master met in final and fatal contest for what each had been taught was his right? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
