Posted on 01/02/2018 5:23:04 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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To the Public – 2
The Old Year – 2
The Financial Panic in Europe – 2
Settlement of the Kansas Question – 2
Senator Douglas – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Bohemian Walks and Talks – 4-7
Travel Notes in Bible Lands – 8-9
The Life of American Students at Heidelberg – 12-14
A Submarine Railway between England and France – 14-17
Reminiscences of the Prussian Police – 18-19
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In Kansas another vote was held on the Lecompton Constitution on January 4 1858. Here is a link with some images of that proposed constitution and more information.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/207409
ARTICLE VII.- SLAVERY.
SECTION 1. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent immigrants to the State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States or Territories, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State: Provided, That such person or slave be the bona fide property of such immigrants: And provided, also, That laws may be passed to prohibit the introduction into this State of slaves who have committed high crimes in other States or Territories. They shall have power to pass laws to permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them from becoming a public charge. They shall have power to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and, in case of their neglect or refusal to comply with the direction of such laws, to have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the owner or owners.
I find it legible. The part about the “Chunnel” was very interesting.
And it only took 137 years to build it!
Government efficiency.
The pictures illustrate one of the problems with shuttlecock-shaped outfits: the rooms are all very crowded!
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Continued from December 24, 1857 (reply #29) .
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
January 4 . . . Sorry to learn that Dr. Haight has lost ground since Dr. Cammann gave us so hopeful an account of his condition. Dr. Knox tells me that my reverend cousin, Thomas M. Strong of Flatbush, is attacked in a similar way, only with more manifest signs of softening of the brain. . . . Mr. Ruggles dined here today, and I spent the evening in the library with Ellie, who’s not quite well tonight – honestly meaning to do some urgent work but dawdling over books instead.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
It sounds as if George is a bit down in the dumps.
It sounds as if George is a bit down in the dumps.
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Since John Dix shows up in both of today’s excerpts, here is his Wikipedia page.
January 5. That firebrand Kansas threatens incendiarism again, and I fear we’re on the eve of a critical period. General Dix tells me that the fractious cabal of fire-eaters, which has so much more power than it deserves, has made up its mind to disunion or the Lecompton Constitution. I doubt if the North can submit to the latter. Will it have the pluck to repress and punish any movement toward the former? Doubtful. Our very remarkable executive head is a mere man of expediencies, I fear, without principle (moral or political) and devoid of all decision and courage, a jellyfish, able to sting a refractory officeholder, but able to do no more.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Dix was appointed Secretary of the Treasury very late in the Buchanan administration. He is famous for having wired the following to Treasury agents in New Orleans: “If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” Was it Will Rogers who said, I am not a member of any organized political party, I am a Democrat?
And we think our politics is rough & tumble today?
But at least back then there was no colluuuuuuuuuusion with the Russians!
January 8, FRIDAY. The Twelfth Night celebration, Wednesday, by the Century at the new building in Fifteenth Street was very original and successful.* Went with Ellie, Miss Leavenworth, and George Anthon. The drawbacks were crowd and heat.
* The Century Club had removed in the spring of 1857 from its old home at 24 Clinton Place to a house at 42 (now 109) East Fifteenth street, where it was to remain until early in 1891.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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