Harper’s Weekly – September 15, 1860

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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 Harper’s Weekly thread

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The American Eagle to the Prince – 1-3
Editorials – 3-4
Correspondence – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Hon. William L. Yancey – 5-7
Hon. Horace Greeley – 7-9
Alice Fulton – 9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10-11
The Drive in the Central Park – 11-12
Good for Nothing – 13-14
The Prince of Wales in Canada – 14-16, 18
Wanted-A Diamond Ring – 15
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, by Charles Lever. Ch. VII – 15, 17, 19-20
Two Love Stories – 20
The Two Sick Men – 21

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Continued from August 27 (reply #6).

With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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Continued from August 8 (reply #5). On this date Seward gave the speech in St. Paul mentioned in the third paragraph below.

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued from September 15 (reply #3).

With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

30: Lincoln’s Secretariat Collection, L.M. Bourne was a labor organizer in New York. On 12 September, he sent Lincoln some articles he had written on Stephen A. Douglas with the request that they be reprinted in Republican newspapers in the west.

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I think if I was a Northern voter in 1860 I wouldn't believe the South would actually secede if Lincoln won, either. The fire eaters had been making that threat for years. Plus, no one is going to blackmail me to vote on a candidate not of my choice.

Plus, the Republican platform was not emancipation. Far from it. They just wanted to keep slavery out of the Territories.

What Northerners didn't appreciate is that the Southern slave-ocracy knew perfectly well that would start a process of very slow but inevitable emancipation. They feel that have to nip that in the bud, to quote a great philosopher.