details and kindly tone, more clearly to discern the happy practical results which must ultimately proceed from the great principles of truth and justice which they are so nobly struggling to maintain through the horrors of a civil war, and the loss of so much that is dear to them in the present, I submit the work to their perusal and approval. NEW YORK, March 15, 1863. MARY L. BOOTH. § 1. From the Adoption of the Constitution to the Missouri PAGE WHAT ARE THE LEGAL MEANS OF ABOLISHING SLAVERY? § 1. The Powers of Congress in accordance with the Constitu- THE SEPARATION OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH § 1. From the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry (1859) to the Nomination of President Lincoln (1860) § 2. From the Election to the Installation of President Lincoln |