To have crossed this great stretch just about the center at its widest part was the scheme of Hayne’s road which had been abandoned for a scheme of weakly paralleling below, the network stretching west above. [Illustration: U.S. 1860 WHITES WHITES & BLACKS NEGROES RAILWAYS COMPLETED ” PROJECTED] The effort of the presidential campaign by the Democrats may have been for an election in the House in 1860, and may have been lost, as Prof. Dodd declares, “only by a narrow margin by the votes of the foreigners, whom the railroads poured in numbers into the contested region;” but that triumph at the most would have only deferred the contest for another four years, for by its special correspondent in the West, the Columbus, Georgia, _Times_ had been informed in 1854: “If Kansas becomes a free soil State slavery will be doomed for Missouri.”[177] The attempt then, inaugurated in 1840, to parallel the Northern systems, pouring population westward, was recognized as an impossible task in 1860, and with the election of Lincoln, known as the man who had declared a house divided against itself cannot stand, the South attempted to end the division by Secession. To such a solution the more powerful North was unwilling to consent, and the war followed for the Union. FOOTNOTES: [152] Woodrow Wilson, Division and Reunion, p. 184. [153] Ibid. [154] Ibid. p. 185. [155] Jefferson Davis, Rise & Fall of Confed. Gov. p. 29, Vol. I. [156] Jervey, Hayne, p. 451. [157] Message, President Tyler, Richardson, Vol. 4, p. 363. [158] Jameson, Calhoun’s Correspondence, p. 665. [159] Report Com. Religious Instruction Negroes, Jenkins, Vol. 23 pamphlets C. L. S. No. 10 p. 65. [160] Appendix Report Special Com. House Rep. So. Ca. Walker & Evans, 1857. p. 57. Message Gov. Adams of S. C. 1856, Vol. 23. [161] Report Special Com. Reopening Slave Trade, 1857, p. 9. Vol. 23. [162] Hammond Speeches, p. 120. [163] Gov. Adams of S. C. Message General Assembly 1855, Vol. 15. [164] DuBois, Suppression Slave Trade, p. 173. [165] Hammond Speeches, p. 335. [166] Robert G. Harper, Argument Slave Trade, Vol. 23, pamphlet C. L. S. Hanleiter, Atlanta Ga. No. 8. p. 66. [167] DuBois, Suppression Slave Trade, p. 113. [168] Ibid. p. 114. [169] Ibid. p. 124. [170] Ibid. p. 179. [171] Ibid. [172] Ibid. p. 181. [173] Jervey, Robert Y. Hayne & His Times, p. 504. [174] _Charleston Mercury_, May 26, 1849. [175] Resolutions State of Arkansas, 1855, Vol. 15, pamphlets C. L. S. [176] Dodd, The Fight for the Northwest, 1860, Am. His. Review Vol. XVI, p. 777. [177] Columbus, Ga., _Times_, Nov. 19, 1854. CHAPTER IX