The Pending Issue (5/30/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 5/30/1860

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Senator HAMMOND, of South Carolina, in a letter which was published in the TIMES a few days since, insists upon the necessity of a compact union among the Slave States, and advises the sending of delegates to Richmond clothed with absolute power to take such action as the emergency may require. He represents the people of the North as bent on the destruction of the slaveholding States -- ignorant of the fact that it involves their own. He adds: "They are told and believe that we are weak, and in the face of the fact that we have been strong enough to control this Government ever since it was established, and to make the country all that it is, they have been made to believe that the South dare not face the North on any decisive field -- in short, on the issue of disunion.

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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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Link to previous New York Times thread

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Editorial: The Pending Issue – 2
Police Reports – 2
Coroners’ Inquests – 2

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Continued from May 23 (reply #28.)

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

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I recall reading a book or article which discussed Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech. It was emphasized that the speech was intended to be provocative to the slavery party and that it was firmly understood that way at the time. This was counter to an interpretation of Lincoln’s views on slavery as more conciliatory.