The disturbing element of slaverv bad altered all this ; the old line of demarcation had vanished; but extreme partisans, on both sides, kept on talking and thinking about abstractions that had ceased to have any real existence. Under the operation of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Democrats had become advocates of " Federal Coercion," in favor of slavery, in Kansas; while the Republicans preached the most extreme doctrines of " State-rights," in the "personal liberty laws," by which the Northern States resisted or evaded the

j 'To complete the history of the three years' volunteers who ac"

i tually went from Westchester County would involve the names of all men who enlisted after the formation and mustering of each company. I contemplated gathering these in as far as possible, but soon found that

' a complete list would be impracticable, while an incomplete one might give just offense to men whose names would be unavoidably left out, from lack of information. I have, thorefore, preferred to insert only those

j names found in the official muster-rolls, published by the State, which contains ninety or ninety-five per cent, of the actual enlistments. After

I the draft began, in ISfiS, the records are no guide, a* men were credite to any place where bounties could be obtained -- the higher the better.

i -- F. W.]

THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-65.

operation of the United States marshals, whenever it was sought to enforce the act. Individuals of the party, like Wendell Philips, openly denounced the Union as "a covenant with death, and a league with hell." Furthermore, a spirit of sectional pride, roused by the arrogant bearing of Southern members of Congress and by the assault of Brooks of South Carolina, on Charles Sumner, was gradually becoming more and more prominent. The young men of the party, not unjustly denominated " sectional," in the North, were getting ready to fight, just as the Southern youths were preparing, in their own States, for the coming conflict.