., 1819– �1882, was United States Senator from Alabama, from 1853 to 1861, and after the breaking out of the Civil War he was a member of the 'Confederate Senate and was sent to Canada, in 1864, on a secret mission, with a view to arousing in the public mind there a sympathy for the Southern cause that

national capital—the preludes of the Civil War. THADDEUS STEVENS' ATTITUDE TOWARD OMNIBUS BIL. The first and essential qualification of the historian is truthfulnes. The omission or suppression of the disagreabl is as inadmissibl as the addi- tion or interpolation of the agreabl. The witnes before the

Thaddeus Stevens and Slavery Slavery, an institution strongly en- trenched. Thaddeus Stevens, a strong man. A combat to the death occurred when that man battled against that institution. To the vast store of literature on the Civil War, its causes and its ef- fects, I shall try to add nothing. The