Harper’s Weekly – September 10, 1859

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 10, 1859

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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.

Posting history, in reverse order

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

The “Great Eastern” and the City of Portland – 2-4
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Our Newport Correspondence – 7
The Great Granaries of Chicago – 8-10
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. LI-LII – 10-14
More Real Ghosts – 15-16
A Good Fight, by Charles Reade, Ch. XIV-XVII – 16-20
Pope Pius the Ninth – 20-21
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Book II, Ch XXII-XXIII – 21-24

[C19fan]

The Great Eastern was Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s crowning achievement. She would be the heaviest and longest ship for decades. She could sail around the world without refueling. She was designed to carry 4000 passengers. She was propelled by wind, side wheel paddles, and a screw propeller. She was an engineering marvel but a commercial flop. Perhaps her most famous voyage was laying down of the 2nd Atlantic telegraph cable.

[PeterPrinciple]

Brunel knew her affectionately as the “Great Babe”. He died in 1859 shortly after her ill-fated maiden voyage, during which she was damaged by an explosion. After repairs, she plied for several years as a passenger liner between Britain and North America before being converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866.[4] Finishing her life as a floating music hall and advertising hoarding (for the department store Lewis’s) in Liverpool, she was broken up on Merseyside in 1889.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern

[C19fan]

Amazing to think just 50 years before people were traveling across the Atlantic just a Columbus did. Now one could go on this monster ship in relative comfort.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 28 (reply #6.) A transcription of Lincoln’s notes for this speech is at the end.

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 5 (reply #9.)

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

[Alas Babylon!]

It looks like Lincoln, if defined today, is an extreme white supremacist.

I’m sure if the drivebys quoted this speech he’d then finally be identified as a Republican.