Hot Valley
Hot Valley
“WHEREVER I WENT, FROM the office to the town square to the bar of the White Horse, the talk was of war. In March, President Lincoln declared that secession was legally void. In April, confederates fired on Federal troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The world was on the march, communities were divided, and our lives would never be the same again.
Even in Bishopstown, prosperous New England backwater far from the battle lines to the south, there were rankling divisions springing up in unlik...ely quarters, splitting our town in two and making the streets unsafe to walk at night. Old resentments flared up like fires long smothered but never extinguished. Mr. Windridge declared himself hot for the rights of slave owners, and started to frequent hotel bars where like-minded anti-abolitionists flaunted their views without fear of attack. In the town square, there were rallies in favor of Mr. Lincoln, in favor of abolition, in favor of joining the army right there and then to go and fight for the Union.MoreLess
Even in Bishopstown, prosperous New England backwater far from the battle lines to the south, there were rankling divisions springing up in unlik...ely quarters, splitting our town in two and making the streets unsafe to walk at night. Old resentments flared up like fires long smothered but never extinguished. Mr. Windridge declared himself hot for the rights of slave owners, and started to frequent hotel bars where like-minded anti-abolitionists flaunted their views without fear of attack. In the town square, there were rallies in favor of Mr. Lincoln, in favor of abolition, in favor of joining the army right there and then to go and fight for the Union.MoreLess
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