Posted on 03/01/2018 4:45:23 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.
* “The affairs of Kansas, which have engrossed a large share of public attention during the month over which our Record extends, appear to be approaching a crisis.”
“Apart from Kansas and Nicaragua, the most important measures before Congress have been the bills for the Admission of Minnesota into the Union under the Constitution duly framed and transmitted to Congress; and the bill for the increase of the army.”
“Dispatches and letters from the army in Utah have been received up to the middle of December.”
“In England the chief topic of public interest has been the approaching marriage of the Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia which was to be celebrated on the 25th of January.” [As we have seen, Harper's Weekly Magazine scooped the monthly magazine by reporting on the wedding in their February 27 issue.]
“An attempt was made on the evening of January 14th to assassinate the Emperor of France.”
“A terrible earthquake occurred in the kingdom of Naples on the 16th of December, occasioning a fearful loss of life..”
“The Russian government has authorized the nobles of certain provinces to prepare a plan for the gradual emancipation of their serfs.”
“The Indian mutiny has assumed the aspect of a regular war in the kingdom of Oude, the latest acquisition of the British, where the disciplined army of the late King forms a nucleus around which are gathering the fragments of the insurgents defeated and driven from other parts of India.”
Continued from February 2 (reply #14) .
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Look at the home page today, what a horrible magazine it is today. Did you know there were 30 mass shootings this year? wow..
For a family magazine of the mid-nineteenth century, that's damned erotic!
Yikes! I should have put a Mature Audiences warning on this post.
Really, it surprised me!
So, fake news isn't so new?
Robert Toombs was a big time fire eater. Read his speech to the Georgia legislature just before secession and you will have no doubt Georgia left the Union over the slavery issue.
P.S. Princess Victoria, the Queen's eldest, did indeed marry Prince Frederick of Prussia. By all accounts they were very happy. Both were liberals by Prussian standards. Frederick died young, of cancer. A debate still rages whether he would have reformed Germany and avoided WWI had he lived a full life. But, I may be wandering into Henkster's Law territory and speculating that Germans would not act like Germans.
I never realized before that Queen Victoria had grandchildren on the thrones of both Germany (Kaiser Wilhelm) and Great Britain (George V) during WWI. I wonder if she would have played a favorite had she been alive.
In 1917, the name of the House of Saxe-Coburg was changed to the House of Windsor because the name was just so darned, well, German.
Still, had Victoria been around she would have favored the British. Although German in ancestry, she was thoroughly English.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
I see that Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia has stopped off in London to pick up his bride, the daughter of Queen Victoria. Their child will be the bane of Europe at the end of this century and the beginning of the next. It’s a pity that Frederick William died too young of throat cancer; he could have moderated the more neurotic aspects of his son’s behavior had he lived longer.
Ooops...didn’t read your comment before I posted almost the exact same thought.
No, it’s not a violation of Henkster’s Law. The early and unexpected demise of a major historical actor is an exception. Frederick William appears to have had a moderate view of foreign policy. He was one of the voices who advocated restraint in not humiliating France after the Franco-Prussian War. Had he lived, I doubt he would have deliberately antagonized Britain the way his son did. However, he was not going to live forever, and sooner or later the neurotic William II would send German foreign policy off the rails. Also, WW1 was as much the instigation of von Moltke the Younger and the General Staff as it was of the Kaiser, maybe more so.
So had Frederick William lived a long life, it might have been more likely a postponement of WW1 rather than an avoidance of it.
Czar Nicholas II was a cousin of Kaiser Bill and King George on his mother’s side, through the Danes, and a second cousin through the Windsors.
It’s a wonder the whole kit and kaboodle didn’t have three heads apiece.
‘Scuse me, I meant the Battenburgs, not the Windsors.
Mr. Strong has quite clearly described modern graduate schools, but he doesn’t think it’s possible. Failure of imagination, George: stupid stuff like this always happens.
Was always amazed by this photo of the cousins.
The one in white with the rag mop hanger is the Tsar.
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