Posted on 04/17/2018 4:41:20 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harpers 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. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.
April 17, SATURDAY. On my way up stopped at Esteys factory to hear a first-class organ just completed and destined for some Presbyterian conventicle at San Francisco. . . .* Our big party is to be Monday night, and I fear it will prove dreary.
* Jacob Estey (1814-1890), after creating a successful organ factory at Brattleboro, had placed a branch agency in New York.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
I’m interested in Anaik Timor the Sorceress, but I don’t have time to dig in right now.
No rush. She’ll be here all week.
Continued from March 26 (reply #11) .
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
A little known provision of the Leavenworth Constitution would have extended the local practice within the city limits of foregoing turn signals to include the entire state. This was a very progressive measure since turn signals had not yet been invented. Unfortunately, the Leavenworth Constitution failed, but the practice of driving without turn signals within the city limits continues to this very day.
Looks like maybe another non-sour day for Strong.
It would be fun to go back in time to this party to experience how New York society entertained in the 1850’s.
Maybe.
I wonder how aware they were in the 1800’s that in living in America in the 1800’s, they were living in one of the freest centuries the world had ever known. I would have loved just to have spent some time in that period where the feds were around 5% of the GDP, the average American was better off than any average citizen in the world, and government was not at all part of daily thinking or life. A time where you could truly “breathe free” regardless of not having our modern conveniences.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Niblos refers to Niblos Garden theater. The wedding guest beating his breast on hearing the last bassoon comes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
We read about Felice Orsini and his attempt to assassinate Napoleon III in the March 6 issue of Harpers Weekly (pages 14-16). There will be a follow up story about the execution of two of the plotters in a later issue.
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