Posted on 06/01/2017 5:15:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
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The Bird That Sung In May (poetry) – 2
Yellow Fever – 2-11
Monthly Record of Current Events * – 12-14
Editor’s Drawer – 15-21
Inconveniences of Living in a uniform Row of Houses – 22-23
Fashions for June – 24-25
* The U.S. government has decided to stay out of the Chinese war. A complicated story from Central America involves the Republic of New Granada , a country hitherto unknown to me.
“Serious disturbances are threatened in Utah, where the disaffection to the Government has assumed a very marked character.”
“The new United States steamer Niagara, the largest man-of-war afloat, has been ordered to assist in laying the cable of the oceanic submarine telegraph.
The New York, Ohio, Maine, and Massachusetts state legislatures passed strong anti-slavery resolutions in response to the Dred Scott decision.
Among the international events reported, the British Parliament is debating war in China.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
This is really old news.....................
My crystal ball tells me that in a couple of years a presently rather unknown politician from Illinois will give an important speech at Cooper Union.
My crystal ball tells me that later this month a presently rather unknown politician from Illinois will give a slightly less important - but significant nonetheless - speech at Springfield, IL.
“People at this day undervalue what they don’t pay for,” remarks Mr. Strong, apropos of “free college.”
Things are different today, of course. Bernie Sanders knows that young people today will highly value free college, such that they will vote for socialist political candidates for the rest of their lives.
I know a boy named Peter Cooper. His mother is in my prayer group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart’s Content in eastern Newfoundland. The first communications occurred August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days – the time it took to deliver a message by ship – to a much shorter time. Transatlantic telegraph cables have been replaced by transatlantic telecommunications cables.
The first attempt, in 1857, was a failure. The cable-laying vessels were the converted warships HMS Agamemnon and USS Niagara. The cable was started at the white strand near Ballycarbery Castle in County Kerry, on the southwest coast of Ireland, on August 5, 1857.[7] The cable broke on the first day, but was grappled and repaired; it broke again over the “telegraph plateau”, nearly 3,200 m (2 statute miles) deep, and the operation was abandoned for the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Niagara_(1855)
Transatlantic telegraph cable, 1857—1858
Niagara sailed from New York on 22 April 1857 for England, arriving Gravesend on 14 May. A log of the ship’s voyage across the Atlantic[1] was kept by the correspondent of the New York Daily Times, where it was published on Thursday, 14 May 1857. On arrival in England Niagara was equipped to lay cable for the first transatlantic telegraph, which was to follow the shallow tableland discovered between Newfoundland and Ireland by Matthew F. Maury. By 11 August, when a break in the cable defied recovery, she had laid several hundred miles westward from Valentia Island, Ireland. She returned to New York 20 November and decommissioned 2 December to prepare for a second essay at cable-laying. Recommissioning 24 February 1858, Captain William L. Hudson in command, she sailed 8 March, arrived Plymouth, England, 28 March, and experimented with HMS Agamemnon. The ships returned to Plymouth to fit out, then made a mid-ocean rendezvous on 29 July, spliced their cable ends, and each sailed toward her own continent. On 5 August, Niagara’s boats carried the end of the cable ashore at Brills Mouth Island, Newfoundland, and the same day Agamemnon landed her end of the cable. The first message flashed across 16 August, when Queen Victoria sent a cable to President James Buchanan. This first cable operated for three weeks; ultimate success came in 1866.
Continued from March 10 (reply #40).
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
I wish I could get Mr. Strong to run my church Stewardship Committee! Our meeting last night went on for two hours, and went I went back to look for my phone (which I’d actually left at home), several members were still there wrangling about budget issues over which none of us has any influence worth mentioning. The Finance Committee knows we won’t cease to volunteer or switch parishes, after all.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Life seems to be moving along rather normally; so far, 1857 is fairly calm after the election, Bloody Kansas, and the Dred Scott decision.
I don’t see much happening until summer a year from now, give or take a financial panic. At that point an Illinois politician and an Illinois politician wannabe will attempt to raise their national profiles in a series of debates that will keep readers of these threads busy for a few months.
Continued from May 13 (reply #38).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics" (1978)
June 11. At Columbia College from ten to twelve as Haight’s substitute on the committee to attend examination. Heard McVickar’s examination of Seniors in political economy and evidences. (Mack is the evidences of revealed religion.) Very creditable, though I suppose the best scholars were called up while the inspectors were present.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
You’ll need to put this in your library for later use. Notice that one of the authors is our Larry Schweikart.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123394?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Panic of 1857: Origins, Transmission, and Containment
Charles W. Calomiris and Larry Schweikart
The Journal of Economic History
Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 807-834
The financial troubles first appear in George Strong’s diary at the end of August, but really get rolling in September.
Another 1857 event ongoing at this time was the Sepoy Mutiny in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
That I have been expecting to see in the Harper’s international current events but not so far. Only the trouble in China being encountered by the European powers.
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