{"product_id":"2940013375147","title":"THE CRISIS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 1.\u003cbr\u003e     I.     Which Deals With Origins\u003cbr\u003e     II.    The Mole\u003cbr\u003e     III.   The Unattainable Simplicity\u003cbr\u003e     IV.    Black Cattle\u003cbr\u003e     V.     The First Spark Passes\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    Silas Whipple\u003cbr\u003e     VII.   Callers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 2.\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.   Bellegarde\u003cbr\u003e     IX.     A Quiet Sunday in Locust Street\u003cbr\u003e     X.      The Little House\u003cbr\u003e     XI.     The Invitation\u003cbr\u003e     XII.    \"Miss Jinny\"\u003cbr\u003e     XIII.   The Party\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 3.\u003cbr\u003e     I.     Raw Material.\u003cbr\u003e     II.    Abraham Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e     III.   In Which Stephen Learns Something\u003cbr\u003e     IV.    The Question\u003cbr\u003e     V.     The Crisis\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    Glencoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 4.\u003cbr\u003e     VII.    An Excursion\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.   The Colonel is Warned\u003cbr\u003e     IX.     Signs of the Times\u003cbr\u003e     X.      Richter's Scar\u003cbr\u003e     XI.     How a Prince Came\u003cbr\u003e     XII.    Into Which a Potentate Comes\u003cbr\u003e     XIII.   At Mr. Brinsmade's Gate\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.    The Breach becomes Too Wide\u003cbr\u003e     XV.     Mutterings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 5.\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.    The Guns of Sumter\u003cbr\u003e     XVII.   Camp Jackson\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII.  The Stone that is Rejected\u003cbr\u003e     XIX.    The Tenth of May.\u003cbr\u003e     XX.     In the Arsenal\u003cbr\u003e     XXI.    The Stampede\u003cbr\u003e     XXII.   The Straining of Another Friendship\u003cbr\u003e     XXIII.  Of Clarence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 6.\u003cbr\u003e     I.     Introducing a Capitalist\u003cbr\u003e     II.    News from Clarence\u003cbr\u003e     III.   The Scourge of War,\u003cbr\u003e     IV.    The List of Sixty\u003cbr\u003e     V.     The Auction\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    Eliphalet Plays his Trumps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 7.\u003cbr\u003e     VII.    With the Armies of the West\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.   A Strange Meeting\u003cbr\u003e     IX.     Bellegarde Once More\u003cbr\u003e     X.      In Judge Whipple's Office\u003cbr\u003e     XI.     Lead, Kindly Light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 8.\u003cbr\u003e     XII.    The Last Card\u003cbr\u003e     XIII.   From the Letters of Major Stephen Brice\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.    The Same, Continued\u003cbr\u003e     XV.     The Man of Sorrows\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.    Annapolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRISIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. WHICH DEALS WITH ORIGINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to\u003cbr\u003ebetray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his\u003cbr\u003edaughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence,\u003cbr\u003efor he is a shameless and determined old party who denies the divine\u003cbr\u003eright of Boston, and has taken again to chewing tobacco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Eliphalet came to town, his son's wife, Mrs. Samuel D. (or S.\u003cbr\u003eDwyer as she is beginning to call herself), was not born. Gentlemen\u003cbr\u003eof Cavalier and Puritan descent had not yet begun to arrive at the\u003cbr\u003ePlanters' House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and\u003cbr\u003ebowies, and depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most\u003cbr\u003epleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight. Mr. Douglas had not\u003cbr\u003ethrown his bone of Local Sovereignty to the sleeping dogs of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo return to Eliphalet's arrival,--a picture which has much that is\u003cbr\u003einteresting in it. Behold the friendless boy he stands in the prow of\u003cbr\u003ethe great steamboat 'Louisiana' of a scorching summer morning, and looks\u003cbr\u003ewith something of a nameless disquiet on the chocolate waters of the\u003cbr\u003eMississippi. There have been other sights, since passing Louisville,\u003cbr\u003ewhich might have disgusted a Massachusetts lad more. A certain deck\u003cbr\u003eon the 'Paducah', which took him as far as Cairo, was devoted to\u003cbr\u003ecattle--black cattle. Eliphalet possessed a fortunate temperament. The\u003cbr\u003edeck was dark, and the smell of the wretches confined there was worse\u003cbr\u003ethan it should have been. And the incessant weeping of some of the women\u003cbr\u003ewas annoying, inasmuch as it drowned many of the profane communications\u003cbr\u003eof the overseer who was showing Eliphalet the sights. Then a\u003cbr\u003efine-linened planter from down river had come in during the\u003cbr\u003econversation, and paying no attention to the overseer's salute cursed\u003cbr\u003ethem all into silence, and left.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145630990576,"sku":"2940013375147","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013375147_p0.jpg?v=1763580333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013375147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}