Posted on 09/08/2020 5:18:11 AM PDT by 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.
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I should have mentioned the reason I picked September 8 for this post. The diary entry of Charles Francis Adams, Jr. for this date describes the “procession of young men and women on horseback, all well mounted, children with banners,” etc., during Seward’s Kalamazoo stop.
Continued from June 2 (reply #3). The business of friends persuading Lincoln “that he must not appear to be following the chariot wheels of the senator’s triumphant procession” is taken from a letter written on this date.
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
PORTLAND, September 12, 1860.
MY DEAR SIR: All yours received. We are covered all over with glory. I congratulate you and Fred, and everybody else in general and particular.
I was anxious about Fred's election on many accounts. The intelligence I received was not flattering, particularly from Hancock. His nomination was said to be not satisfactory in Bucksport and vicinity, on account of some local feeling, and as they pressed me very strongly to come down and see if I could allay it, I took boat Friday night, and spoke there on Saturday, doing what I could outside by coaxing and swearing. Tuck writes me to-day, giving the vote, and says that I did them good service in various ways. At any rate, the vote is satisfactory. Fred leads, I see, instead of falling behind.
I went to Bangor on Sunday, was taken sick, and had to send for a doctor, but got home on Monday in season to vote, and then went to bed, where I lay until this morning. I am up to-day, and hope to be out again to-morrow, if the weather will allow.
The truth is, I was not in a condition to take any part in the campaign, but nobody would believe it. Our great success must cure me, however, if there is a spark of vitality left.
Now, let other States do their duty, and the rascals are wiped out.
W. P. FESSENDEN.
J. S. PIKE, Esq.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 525-6
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Sorry, I didn’t understand your Photobucket’s, which are cryptic.
I may be dumber than Joementia....I dunno know
Are you not seeing the images? Everything seems to be working properly for the moment.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
The following is from the front page article in the New York Times that didn’t make it into my NYT post.
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