CHARLESTON CONVENTIONS; PROGRESS OF THE FACTIONS; THE BALLOTINGS; THE PLATFORM OF THE SECEDERS (5/3/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/3/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHARLESTON, Wednesday, May 2. GILMORE's Brass Band made every one homesick this mornning, at the opening of the Convention, by playing "Home, Sweet Home." Mr. FLOURNOY, of Arkansas, after it had got through, jumped upon a chair and called at the top of his voice for three cheers for the Union. All present, ladies included, responded heartily. Then our drooping spirits were revived by "Hail Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle."

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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.

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Charleston Conventions – 2
Affairs on Tuesday – 2
The National Convention – 2-3
The Southern Convention – 3-4
The Capitol Excited About the Result – 4
Mayor Wood Among the Editors – 4
Speech of Mayor Wood – 4
Very Late from Utah, by the Overland Pony Express – 4
The Great Prize Fight – 4
Brooklyn Intelligence – 4
New-Jersey – 4