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Title: The Crisis, Volume 1

Author: Winston Churchill

Release Date: October 19, 2004 [EBook #5388]

Language: English

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THE CRISIS

By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE SET:

BOOK I

Volume 1.
I. Which Deals With Origins
II. The Mole
III. The Unattainable Simplicity
IV. Black Cattle
V. The First Spark Passes
VI. Silas Whipple
VII. Callers

Volume 2.
VIII. Bellegarde
IX. A Quiet Sunday in Locust Street
X. The Little House
XI. The Invitation
XII. "Miss Jinny"
XIII. The Party

BOOK II.

Volume 3.
I. Raw Material.
II. Abraham Lincoln
III. In Which Stephen Learns Something
IV. The Question
V. The Crisis
VI. Glencoe

Volume 4.
VII. An Excursion
VIII. The Colonel is Warned
IX. Signs of the Times
X. Richter's Scar,
XI. How a Prince Came
XII. Into Which a Potentate Comes
XIII. At Mr. Brinsmade's Gate
XIV. The Breach becomes Too Wide
XV. Mutterings

Volume 5.
XVI. The Guns of Sumter
XVII. Camp Jackson
XVIII. The Stone that is Rejected
XIX. The Tenth of May.
XX. In the Arsenal
XXI. The Stampede
XXII. The Straining of Another Friendship
XXIII. Of Clarence

BOOK III

Volume 6.
I. Introducing a Capitalist
II. News from Clarence
III. The Scourge of War,
IV. The List of Sixty
V. The Auction
VI. Eliphalet Plays his Trumps

Volume 7.
VII. With the Armies of the West
VIII. A Strange Meeting
IX. Bellegarde Once More
X. In Judge Whipple's Office
XI. Lead, Kindly Light

Volume 8.
XII. The Last Card
XIII. From the Letters of Major Stephen Brice
XIV. The Same, Continued
XV. The Man of Sorrows
XVI. Annapolis

THE CRISIS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

WHICH DEALS WITH ORIGINS

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