THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: How Mr. Breckinridge’s Speech is Received; Editorials: Property in Slaves, Breckinridge and Disunion (9/8/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/8/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Friday, Sept. 7. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE'S friends here, from the North and the South, express great dissatisfaction at his dodging the question which DOUGLAS so promptly answered at Norfolk, that is, what he would do in the event of a State's attempting to secede on the election of LINCOLN. The truth is, BRECKINRIDGE could not answer without driving from him some of his followers in one section or the other of the Union. Gen. LANE left here last evening in company with the New-York Committee of Politicians. The compositors made sad havoc with my dispatch about, the proposition for fusion in New-York. It should have read "ten" Douglas men to be dropped, and "ten" Breckinridge men substituted -- not "the" Douglas men and "the" Breckinridge men. The Bell and Everett Committee are in receipt of letters to-day from nearly every Southern State, giving flattering accounts of their prospects. Mr. DOUGLAS is pressing his canvass in the North. He speaks at Harrisburgh and Reading to-morrow; in New-York on the 12th; Elmira on the 14th; Niagara 15th; Rochester 18th; Buffalo 20th; Cleveland 22d; Columbus 24th; Cincinnati 26th; Indianapolis 28th; Lafayette Oct, 1, and Chicago Oct. 3. He is in receipt of numerous invitations to return to the South -- one from Vicksburgh is signed by fifty leading men. O.

[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

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Link to previous New York Times thread

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The Presidential Campaign: How Mr. Breckinridge’s Speech is Received – 2
Senator Douglas at Harrisburg – 2
Senator Seward’s Western Tour – 2-3
The President and Mr. Douglas – 3
Naval and Military Intelligence – 3
Editorial: Property in Slaves – 3-4
Editorial: Breckinridge and Disunion – 4
Editorial: A College of Crime – 4
Base Ball: Union of Morrisania vs. Excelsior of South Brooklyn – 4

[Hebrews 11:6]

Once the hot war finally commences, I will watch keenly for everything relating to the Ohio Cavalry, 8th Regiment, Company C, in which served my great-great-grandfather Samuel Lewis and three of his five brothers: Benjamin, John and Jacob.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I post a lot from Jim Miller’s Civil War Notebook. He links to hundreds of unit from both sides. Here is his page for 8th Ohio Cavalry.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/search/label/8th%20OH%20CAV

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks SO much, Homer. Not exactly glorious service, but honorable.