Harper’s Weekly – November 6, 1858

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 6, 1858

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[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.

Link to previous thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Rival Candidates for Governor – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Thorough-bred Horses in the United States – 8-10
The Son of France Again – 10-11
The Calaboose in Salt Lake City – 12-14
Terrible Tragedy in New York – 14-18
How the French Emperor Travels By Rail – 19-21
John Singer’s Story – 21-23
Chess Chronicle – 23-24

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Previous excerpt from this volume was on October 15 (reply #21).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 2 (reply #15) .

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

The horse pictures are beautiful, and the one of the poor Imperial Prince of France is sad. Is he in that ridiculous frock because he’s not yet toilet-trained? Do the French even have toilets in 1857?

[Tax-chick]

I hope to find time to read all about the horrible murder, of which the reportage begins on page 5. It’s interesting that Harper’s coverage starts, not with facts, but with moralizing about motives and, “Oh, young people today ...”. Opinion pieces in the news sections are obviously not a new phenomenon!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Well, pages 4 and 5 are editorials, after all.

[BroJoeK]

This is their election eve edition, and I looked to see what discussions on slavery we might find -- didn't see any.

Did I miss it, or is slavery just not a big issue to Harper's readers in November 1858?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 2 (reply #13).

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

[BroJoeK]

too good a man to be thus treated by those D_____ sons of b*tches"

Isn't it wonderful that Democrats are sooooo much better now, nobody would ever say such a thing about them today.
I mean... ask Justice Kavanaugh.

</sarcasm>

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 7 (reply #9).

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Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from October 13 (reply #17) .

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

[iowamark]

appeal might have to go to the 'God of Battles'

Davis threatening war more than two years before the actual secession crisis began.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from November 6 (reply #4).]

November 9. Much engaged of late with Bidwell and William Curtis Noyes, trying to secure them as lecturers in our Columbia College Law School. Effort not desperate but rather promising, though Noyes is a director or trustee of the New York University on Washington Square., which has started a law school of its own with Judge Clerke and Peter Y. Cutler for its teachers.

Lord says: “Clerke is equally ignorant on every subject, but if Cutler be more ignorant of any one branch of legal science than of any other, his weak point is undoubtedly the law of real estate,” his specialty in this precious course of the New York University.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 9 (reply #14).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

Mr. Strong’s analysis of the opera genre is very perspicacious. I wonder what he would have thought of Wagner.