THE RICHMOND CONVENTION (6/13/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 6/13/1860

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RICHMOND, Tuesday, June 12. The proceedings of the Convention were opened by prayer by Rev. Dr. DUNCAN. Mr. CALHOUN, of South Carolina, son of JOHN C. CALHOUN, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, made the following report, which was adopted: For President, JOHN ERWIN, of Alabama, with one Vice President and Secretary from each State, with the exception of New-York. The temporary Chairman then retired after making a brief but eloquent speech, concluding with the hope that the result of their deliberations might be such as to preserve the Constitution inviolate.

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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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous New York Times thread

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The Richmond Convention – 2-3
Riot at Blairsville – 3
From the Pacific – 3
From Japan – 3
From California – 4-5
Editorial: The Richmond Convention – 5
The Pony Express-Later from the Plains – 5
Pike’s Peak Express – 5
Railroad Disaster – 5
The Turf – 5-6
Police Reports – 6
Coroners’ Inquests – 6
Mr. Greeley’s Letter to Gov. Seward – 6

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June 13, 1860. The Press and Tribune, Chicago, IL. The Radicals of New England: Wendell Phillips says, “there are no States South of Masons and Dixons line – nothing but hordes of pirates, and that it is the right of the slave to slaughter with revenge the slave holder.” To a few, these [Anti-Slavery] meetings are meetings to “give testimony” against the sin of slavery. Of these are Garrison and some of the whitest souls not yet translated. – column 3. The Elgin Republican Wide-Awake Brigade will have their uniforms ready by next week. – column 6. Lincoln and Seward contrasted – Lincoln speaks in a few well-chosen words, which go far enough to say just what he means, but not so far as to commit him beyond his intention. Terse is the term which describes his language. – Seward affects startling expressions. He exaggerates the truth, and has often been compelled to waste much labor in the defense of some ultraism … Such was his “irrepressible conflict” idea. – column 7.
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