Continued from July 14 (reply #27).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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.
North Carolina Illustrated – 1-12
Monthly Record of Current Events * – 13-15
Editor’s Drawer – 16-26
Elephantine Metamorphoses – 27-28
Fashions for August – 29-30
* Highlights:
Utah has a new governor. A U.S. military force is occupying the state to quell disturbances.
“The vote at the Territorial election in Kansas was very light, the Free-State party having adhered to their resolution to abstain from taking a part in the election.”
“The Court of Appeals of New York has affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the constitutionality of the Metropolitan Police Bill, which was contested by the Mayor of New York.”
“The message of Governor Haile, of New Hampshire, regrets that the State has been deprived by emigration of many of her best citizens; urges that a longer period of residence, and the ability to read and write the English language should be required of aliens before they shall be admitted to vote; and advocates a protest by the Legislatures of all the free States against the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.”
“The foreign emigration to this country, which last year had greatly diminished, is now very large. During the first six months of the present year the arrivals at the port of New York were 86,080, exceeding those of the corresponding period last year by more than 30,000.”
“A band of renegade Sioux, the War-pe-ku-tahs, headed by a noted war-chief named Ink-pa-du-tah, have committed terrible outrages in Minnesota and the borders of Iowa. More than thirty settlers were killed near Spirit Lake and on the Sioux and Des Moines rivers, and a number of females were carried away captives. Some these were brutally outraged and murdered. One of the survivors, a young woman named Gardner, was subsequently ransomed through the intervention of some friendly Indians and brought back to St. Paul.”
Many other events, foreign and domestic, are covered.
Reminds me to thank you once again for that wonderful series of posts on WWII.
Interesting read - I hadn’t known about gold mining in NC prior.
Please add me. Warning: I can chew gum in class without detection. Catch me if you can!
on 19: a lyrical work lacking an ubiquitous non-consonant; a magical job of improv with zilch to do to fix it!
Continued from July 14 (reply #27).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
James W. Grimes was Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
[To Mrs. Sherman]
Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years-Volume II
Continued from June 11 (reply #15).
[The letter from Chief Justice Taney to President Pierce referenced below was written on this date.]
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics" (1978)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas