FROM CHICAGO; Organization of the Republican National Convention; Decided Predominance of the Friends of Mr. Seward; PROBABILITIES OF HIS NOMINATION (5/17/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/17/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHICAGO, Wednesday, May 16. The throng of in-pouring multitudes, by rail, by sail and by wagon, has continued without cessation, all the adjacent States sending their innumerable representatives. The Convention met at the hour prefixed, in the great Wigwam, which holds, and today held, ten thousand people, while twenty thousand more surrounded the building. The proceedings, which will be found at length in the general report, were marked with the utmost good feeling and unbounded enthusiasm.

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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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From Chicago – 2
Letter from John C. Fremont – 2
Editorial: The Chicago Convention – 2-3
The New-York Post-Office – 3