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May 1857
Harper's Magazine archives (subscription required) ^ | May 1857

Posted on 05/01/2017 5:09:36 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Taney was such a jerk! He imagined that he was saving the country from the abolitionists, but he was actually bringing on secession and war.


41 posted on 05/13/2017 9:59:49 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: BroJoeK

Looks like a cross between FDR and Bill Clinton


42 posted on 05/13/2017 10:35:18 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa
;-)
43 posted on 05/14/2017 7:41:04 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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Continued from May 12 (reply #36).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

44 posted on 05/15/2017 4:52:03 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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[Continued from May 15 (reply #44).]

May 17, SUNDAY. Bradish sent for Mr. Ruggles yesterday afternoon to say how much he regretted to find that he was considered mainly instrumental in getting up the late attack on Trinity Church. He deplored and disapproved it, and was disgusted; his motion was a remedy through the courts; the members of the vestry were his most valued friends, and so on. This looks a little uncandid. His name has been conspicuous from first to last. Probably he was willing to let it be conspicuous while it seemed to be on the winning side, and now that reaction has set in pretty strongly, remembers all at once that he didn’t do a great deal of the work after all.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

45 posted on 05/19/2017 4:47:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from March 4 (reply #15).

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William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

46 posted on 05/19/2017 4:52:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from May 17 (reply #45).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

47 posted on 05/19/2017 4:55:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Welcome back all!

My goodness, do you remember the commercial where the poor kid "feels like a fish without water"?

That's how I feel when Free Republic is down.

Now Wide Awake again!!


48 posted on 05/19/2017 7:04:21 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Columbia College fails to hire J. Willard Gibbs who will become the greatest American scientist of the nineteenth century.


49 posted on 05/19/2017 8:51:35 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

Josiah Willard Gibbs, born 11 February 1839. Eighteen years old in May 1857. Maybe thought a little to young.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs


50 posted on 05/19/2017 9:15:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Even in 1857, Michigan was one of America's great universities.


51 posted on 05/19/2017 11:41:52 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://edgeeffects.net/davis-island-a-confederate-shrine-submerged/
“Davis Island: A Confederate Shrine, Submerged”


52 posted on 05/19/2017 7:13:19 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

That is very interesting. I didn’t know that Joseph Davis’ slave wound up owning both plantations after the war. The article says Joseph ‘gifted’ Brierfield to Jefferson. I don’t know if that is strictly true. As I recall from this bio there was never a formal agreement and Jefferson never got title to his patch. So it was more of a loan.

Good post.


53 posted on 05/19/2017 7:26:31 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Trying to farm lowland near the Mississippi river is a risky thing. You might have a great crop, or you might get flooded out. The Davis family, and others, made a fortune, with land and slave labor purchased on easy credit. As the book notes, Jefferson Davis’ plantation suffered in his absences serving in Washington.

We see that, in 1857, he was already talking in code about secession. In 1861, he generally opposed secession until it happened, realizing how outnumbered the Confederates were. He hoped to be the commanding general of the Confederate Army, and was somewhat saddened to be appointed mere CSA President. As President, he got the largest share of the blame for the Confederate defeat.


54 posted on 05/19/2017 8:11:46 PM PDT by iowamark
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Continued from May 18 (reply #47).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

55 posted on 05/24/2017 5:02:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

So we’ve discovered the roots of the liberal takeover of Columbia University.


56 posted on 05/24/2017 5:06:46 AM PDT by PAR35
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Once one deviates from the pure doctrine of Predestination, as explained at extraordinary length by Jonathan Edwards, it’s all over but shooting the cripples. Come out from among ‘em, Mr. Strong!


57 posted on 05/25/2017 3:07:01 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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Continued from May 24 (reply #55).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

Frederic Edwin Church Wikipedia page. I don’t know exactly which landscape Strong saw. Maybe this one.

Here is an 1857 painting by Louis Remy Mignon .

58 posted on 05/30/2017 5:12:00 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Pretty pictures by Mr. Church, but neither the Andes of Ecuador nor the Valley of Mexico (if that’s what the other painting is, with the horseman) is particularly “sultry.”


59 posted on 05/30/2017 5:27:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is no catastrophe from which someone does not benefit." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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