Harper’s Weekly – July 31, 1858

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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 Lynching of William Barker at Lexington, Kentucky – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 6-7
The Late General Quitman – 8-9
The Accident on the Erie Road – 10-12
The Moon, and How We See It – 13-15
Nothing New – 15
The Delectable Fairy Tale of Miel Bonbon – 16-18
A Crown of Sorrow – 18
Persian Dancing-Girls – 18-19 Miscellany – 20-21

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 29 (reply #10) .

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Interesting information on Henry Asbury (see letter from A. Lincoln, reply 3)

Quincy Herald-Whig

[iowamark]

Asbury is given credit for framing the four questions Lincoln asked Douglas to answer at Freeport during the second of their seven Great Debates in 1858. Asbury believed his most important question was: "Can the people of a United States territory in any lawful way against the wish of any citizen of the United States exclude Slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?"

What were the other three questions?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Douglas posed “seven distinct interrogatories” at Ottawa (debate #1) that Lincoln addressed at the beginning of his opening at Freeport (debate #2). He then put to Douglas the 4 new questions referred to by the Herald-Whig.