[Homer_J_Simpson]

So the new FR server site seems to work fine for posting new material but my links to previous issues and my posting history don’t work. The url addresses look exactly the same but no go. Maybe it will some clear up.

The Southern Excitement: A Better Feeling Gaining Ground – 2-3
Senator Douglas in New-Orleans: Enthusiastic Reception – 3
Newspaper Reports* – 3-4
The Next President: Letters from Mr. Lincoln’s Home – 4-6
Editorial: Secession-How is it to be Accomplished? – 5

* Any of you readers who live in Charleston are now proscribed from reading my Harper’s Weekly posts. See the announcement on page 4.

[colorado tanker]

Would the men of South Carolina have been so deliriously happy had they known how many of them would die and their state despoiled?