In the South after a fashion the duello flourished.

Because it had not flourished in the North there rose a notion that the Northerners would not fight.

It proved to those who thought it a costly mistake.
Down to the actual secession of 1860-61 the issue of issues--the issue behind all issues--was the preservation of the Union.

Between 1820 and 1850, by a series of compromises, largely the work of Mr.Clay, its threatened disruption had been averted.

The Kansas-Nebraska Bill put a sore strain upon conservative elements North and South.