Excerpt from The Irrepressible Conflict Between Labor and Capital: A Brief Summary of Some of the Chief Causes and Results of the Late Civil War in the United States, as Presented in the Translator's Preface to Adolphe Granier De Cassagnac's History of the Working and Burgher Classes The news of the WI Rebellion reached him in the privacy Of his library, and he again emerged into active life. Believing, like many other able and good men at the North, that the war was a Slaveholders' rebellion, and that every thing Should be sacrificed to the preservation Of the Union, he took an active part in sustaining the Government. By degrees he became, under the excitements Of the war, a thor ough going Abolitionist. He took great interest, and was one of the most active agents and liberal contributors, in sending teachers South to instruct the negroes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.