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The Pony Express
Chapter I
At A Nation's Crisis
The Pony Express was the first rapid transit and the first fast mail line across the continent from the
Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. It was a system by means of which messages were carried s...
The Pony Express marked the highest development in overland travel prior to the coming of the Pacific
railroad, which it preceded nine years. It, in fact, - Ans:✔✔-A time when overland travel was slow and
cumbersome
The Pony Express
Chapter I
At A Nation's Crisis
The fall of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, did not produce the Civil War crisis. For many months, the gigantic
struggle then imminent had been painfully discernible to far-seeing men. In 1858, Lincoln had
forewarned the country in his "House Divided" speech. As early as the beginning of the year 1860 the
Union had been plainly in jeopardy. Early in February of that momentous year, Jefferson Davis, on behalf
of the South, had introduced his famous resolutions in the Senate of the United States. This document
was the ultimatum of the dissatisfied slave-holding commonwealths. It demanded that Congress should
protect slavery throughout the domain of the United States. The territories, it declared, were the
common property of the states of the Union and hence open to the citizens of all states with all their
personal possessions. The Northern states, furthermore, were no longe - Ans:✔✔-Essentially different
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