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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 King of Naples – 1-2
Dark Gordon’s Bride – 1-3
Editorials – 3
The Lounger – 3-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Ode to H.R.H. – 6-7
Rev. W. Wood Stamp – 6, 8
Whales Ashore – 8, 10
The American College and Sheik’s House near Dheib-el-Kamar, Syria – 9
What Can I Do? – 10-11
Domestic Intelligence – 11
Foreign News – 11-12
The Imaginary and the Actual Prince – 13
The Uncommercial Traveler, by Charles Dickens – 14-15
“Wilt Thou Kiss Me?” – 15
Deal Beach – 15-16
The Great Race Next Week – 17-19
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, by Charles Lever. Ch. VIII – 20-22
The Japanese Swindle – 22

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Continued from September 1 (reply #3).

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

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I guess everyone knew about the Fashion Course back then, I didn't know until just now when I did a Google search. (It was a racetrack in Queens, NY.)

Harper's always seems to have an ad or two for Saratoga Water. This is the first time I've seen an ad for Kentucky Bourbon along with an article about an upcoming horse race.

ML/NJ

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Continued from September 18 (reply #5).

31. Attorney Rufus L. Miller lived in Keokuk, Iowa.

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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William Barton Rogers to Henry Darwin Rogers, September 24, 1860

BOSTON, September 24, 1860.

. . . We expect to remove to Boston for the winter in about three weeks. . . . My last visit to Boston was for the purpose of reading to a committee a pretty full outline of an Institute of Technology, to comprise a Society of Arts, an Industrial Museum, and a School of Industrial Science. My plan is very large, but is much liked, and I shall probably submit it, by request, to a meeting of leading persons in the course of a week or two, after which it will be printed in pamphlet form. The educational feature of the plan is what ought most to recommend it, and will, I think, be well appreciated. It provides for regular systematic teaching in Drawing and Design, Mathematics, general and applied Physics, Practical Chemistry, Geology and Mining, and would require at least five fully equipped professorships, besides laboratories, even at the beginning. It contemplates two classes of pupils, — those who go through a regular and continuous course of practical studies, and those who attend the lectures on Practical Science and Art. But I will not dilate on the plan now.

I wish, some day that you are enough at leisure, you would write Mr. Savage a few lines about your own doings, or any matter of local antiquarian interest that may turn up. I know he would be greatly pleased to hear from you. I have never known him more cheerful and happy, or more gentle and benevolent, than now. He seems to rejoice as much as we when a letter comes by steamer from you and Eliza.

You may tell friends in Scotland that the slavery extension doctrine will be effectually wiped out by this election. Mr. Andrew, whom you know, will be the next Governor, — an honest, fearless, clearheaded and humane man. Lincoln, by all reliable accounts, is a like character, with probably more decided intellectual power.

Some people are just now greatly exercised, as the Methodists say, with the expected visit of the Prince. Of course the long ears will show themselves on such occasions. But I trust the reception in Boston will be marked by self-respect, as well as courtesy to the symbolic guest. There has been much folly committed in Canada, and I fear there will be vastly more in New York.

Ticknor and Fields have just reprinted Tyndall's volume on the Glaciers. I shall take it to the country, and may be tempted to write a critique.

Ferguson, of the National Observatory, has lately discovered another asteroid.

SOURCE: Emma Savage Rogers & William T. Sedgwick, Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, Volume 2, p. 41-2

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, September 25, 1860

September 25th, 1860.

In answer to your question how you are to come, I should say, with your husband, if no other arrangement can be effected. If you don't meet with an opportunity of an escort to New York or farther, see if the doctor can't get you one to Springfield, upon the condition that you pay the expense. I don't want you to pass through Springfield alone, as you have to change cars there, and you might meet with some accident; but as visitors invite the doctor to make excursions with them, can't you invite him to make one with you to Springfield, and after he sees you on the right train, sit in the same car until you reach the depot in New York, where you may expect to find your esposo waiting for you? Be sure to write, and also telegraph, as I would rather go all the way to Round Hill than for you to come through Springfield alone. Your husband feels bright, and the light of his approaching little sunshine makes him still brighter. Whenever you write or telegraph for him, you may expect him to come for you in double-quick time.

SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 135-6

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, September 28, 1860

September 28th.

I expect to set off with your rockaway and "Bay," and you must not be left behind. You may expect to have your dinner sent from home, so that in our homeward drive you can eat your own dinner.

SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 136

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