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Harper’s Weekly – February 13, 1858
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 13, 1858

Posted on 02/13/2018 6:48:46 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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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

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1 posted on 02/13/2018 6:48:46 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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The Honorable Edward Everett * – 1-3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-6
Bohemian Walks and Talks – 6
The Red Petticoat and Its Pedigree – 7-9
Travel Notes in Bible Lands – 9-11
St. Valentine and Valentines – 12-16
Lotty Lowe – 17
What a Bottle of Brandy Did – 17
The Pilot’s Wife – 18
Leaves from a Christmas Tree – 18
The Wrong Burglar – 18-19
Looking Into the Well – 19
The American Chapel in Paris – 20
The Yellow Fever at Lisbon – 21-22

* Edward Everett Wikipedia page

2 posted on 02/13/2018 6:50:52 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Previous excerpt from this volume was January 9 (reply #3). The following doesn’t pick up quite where that left off.

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

3 posted on 02/13/2018 6:52:50 AM PST 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

Re: Left drawing on top of page 8:

Read a book about an 1860’s exploration of NW Siberia by some Americans. They had a newspaper with them and showed drawings similar to page 8 to the natives who laughed heartily thinking all American women were built that way.


4 posted on 02/13/2018 7:51:45 AM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Good information thanks for posting HJS.


5 posted on 02/13/2018 8:13:01 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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On a previous thread I said the ladies’ fashions of 1855-58 made the wearers resemble giant badminton birdies, or shuttlecock’s, as Tax-chick reminded me was the proper term. It was a strange period for women’s attire. I’m glad we evolved away from it by the 20th century.


6 posted on 02/13/2018 11:15:45 AM PST 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; Rebelbase

I think the early 1800s and the early 1900s had pretty clothes.


7 posted on 02/13/2018 1:05:34 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Tax-chick
Early 1800's dresses were certainly more reasonable looking than mid-century. Many of the examples I looked at have a seam just below the bosom (empire waist?) and then fall naturally over hips to the ankles. How that evolved into the hoop skirt-shuttlecock look I have no idea.

I agree early 20th century fashions are also nice. From around late teens through 1930's especially.

8 posted on 02/13/2018 6:21:04 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Yes, that’s the (Napoleonic) Empire style. The cut is flattering for the slender and comfortable for the plump (or pregnant). Skirts stayed reasonable into the 1840’s, and then exploded into shuttlecocks.

Only for the well-off, of course. The poor still wore rags.


9 posted on 02/13/2018 6:25:37 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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Previous excerpt from this volume was February 2 (reply #14) . The following doesn’t pick up quite where that left off.

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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

10 posted on 02/14/2018 7:28:00 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Interesting implications for the future; abolitionists were eventually going to foment slave insurrections. Confederate apologists assume that with Secession and independence the two nations would have simply gone their separate ways in peace and the south would remain as it always had been.

That wasn’t going to happen.


11 posted on 02/14/2018 8:08:08 AM PST by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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Continued from February 9 (reply #4).

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

12 posted on 02/15/2018 4:30:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Things are always the same ...


13 posted on 02/15/2018 4:45:41 AM PST by Tax-chick (Happy Lent!)
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The footnote refers to the fact that Henry Bellows was president of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Strong was heavily involved with that organization.

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


14 posted on 02/15/2018 5:03:05 AM PST 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

Sanitation is extremely important!


15 posted on 02/15/2018 5:03:50 AM PST by Tax-chick (Happy Lent!)
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To: Tax-chick

Hospitals were especially important during 1861-65. There is a photo of the standing committee that directed the commission on the Wikipedia page. Our George is among them.

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


16 posted on 02/15/2018 5:19:08 AM PST 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

Very important work. I expect we’ll learn that it was exhausting and terribly frustrating.


17 posted on 02/15/2018 5:24:40 AM PST by Tax-chick (Happy Lent!)
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To: Tax-chick

“The poor we shall always have with us.” Or something like that.

Dr. Bellows (who I assume is not the same Dr. Bellows from “I Dream of Jeannie”) has indeed shown that things are always the same. Everyone has and always has had great insight into why poor people are poor and tend to commit crime at a greater rate. But no one has an actual workable solution.

So we just throw money at them. Trillions of dollars. And the poor are still poor and still commit crime, and are victimized by it, at a much greater rate.


18 posted on 02/15/2018 9:45:33 AM PST by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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It’s almost as if we live in a world racked by sin, where people are going to do wrong and stupid and destructive things, millennium after millennium.

On the other hand, we have flush toilets now.


19 posted on 02/15/2018 11:30:22 AM PST by Tax-chick (Happy Lent!)
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And we don’t watch sweaty guys hack each other to pieces with swords as a form of entertainment. Now the sweaty guys just get concussions.


20 posted on 02/15/2018 1:23:19 PM PST by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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