Posted on 08/01/2017 6:59:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
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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.
Glad you enjoyed them. It turned out that I like having a foot in two different times, so I started this new project. So far this one is a lot less work than the WWII project. So far.
Interesting read - I hadn’t known about gold mining in NC prior.
I see that, “Nothing of special importance has occurred in the British Parliament.”
I live here in the gold-mining area of North Carolina. It is easy to find potentially gold-bearing quartz veins, but the chance of finding a big nugget is pretty small now. In parts of east Mecklenburg and Union counties, the groundwater is contaminated with arsenic from the processing of gold-bearing ore.
Can you imagine the screams you would hear on FR if someone suggested that today?
Please add me. Warning: I can chew gum in class without detection. Catch me if you can!
You are enrolled. Lucky for you the mandatory death penalty for gum chewing in class is not enforced in the on-line version of the course.
on 19: a lyrical work lacking an ubiquitous non-consonant; a magical job of improv with zilch to do to fix it!
People were more self-confident in those days. I just can’t imagine going to all that trouble to get dressed every morning. I was an early medieval reenactor, back in the day: just throw on a shift and you’re ready to go.
A+
LOL! Thanks!
I saw that. Mine were more of the chortle variety ;’}
When do we begin to hear of the famous 1857 Panic, which is now supposedly underway?
"Utah has a new governor.
A U.S. military force is occupying the state to quell disturbances."
We might note here: it was not unheard of for US military forces to be sent to places in turmoil or rebellion.
It happened before, and when it happens again (I predict) the next President will be thinking, at first, in terms of quelling another such minor domestic disturbance, not necessarily of an existential national challenge.
He means us.
Continued from July 14 (reply #27).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
This is very timely, Homer. Even without the interwebs, people were managing to gin up violent mob and injure those of different viewpoints.
On the other hand, I recall that things are going to go downhill from August 1857 forward ...
Some of this sounds familiar these days.
Do you know what was the constitutional convention all about or if anything come of it?
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