The Crisis
by Churchill, Winston
From the book:Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to betray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his daughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence, for he is a shameless and determined old party who denies the divine right of Boston, and has taken again to chewing tobacco. When Eliphalet came to town, his son's wife, Mrs: Samuel D. (or S. Dwyer as she is beginning to call herself), was not born. Gentlemen of Cavalier and Puritan descent had not yet begun to arrive at the Planters' House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and bowies, and depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most pleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight. Mr. Douglas had not thrown his bone of Local Sovereignty to the sleeping dogs of war. To return to Eliphalet's arrival, - a picture which has much that is interesting in it. Behold the friendless boy he stands in the prow of the great steamboat 'Louisiana' of a scorching summer morning, and looks with something of a nameless disquiet on the chocolate waters of the Mississippi. There have been other sights, since passing Louisville, which might have disgusted a Massachusetts lad more. A certain deck on the 'Paducah', which took him as far as Cairo, was devoted to cattle - black cattle. Eliphalet possessed a fortunate temperament. The deck was dark, and the smell of the wretches confined there was worse than it should have been. And the incessant weeping of some of the women was annoying, inasmuch as it drowned many of the profane communications of the overseer who was showing Eliphalet the sights. Then a fine-linened planter from down river had come in during the conversation, and paying no attention to the overseer's salute cursed them all into silence, and left.
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Howard Chandler Christy. The Crisis is an historical novel published in 1901 by the American novelist Winston Churchill and became the best-selling book in the United States that year. Set in Missouri in the years prior to the beginning of the Civil War. <br><br>CONDITION: Hardbound… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Macmillan Company, London, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Illustrator: Herbert Williams after Howard C. Christy. Editor's preface, introduction by author, list of illustrations, The Crisis is a historical and afterword. Illustrated pages, being the logo for the New Classics series. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, and 11 lines within the have been drawn by… Read more about this item Item Price
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