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Harper’s Weekly – June 12, 1858
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | June 12, 1858

Posted on 06/12/2018 6:36:41 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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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

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.

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1 posted on 06/12/2018 6:36:41 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
A Visit to Captain Howes, of the Schooner “Mobile” – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-6
The Lounger – 6-7
Philip St George Cooke, Lieut.-Colonel Second Dragoons – 7-9
Luncan’s Light – 10
Funeral Honors Paid to Gen. Persifer F. Smith at Cincinnati – 10-12
Billy Bowlegs in New Orleans – 13-18
The Devil’s Mark – 18-20
My Western Land Speculation – 20-22
The Regatta of the New York Yacht Club – 23-26
Miscellany – 26-27
2 posted on 06/12/2018 6:38:38 AM PDT 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

What is fascinating is that a brutal and bloody civil war is about two years away and not a clue about it in the most popular media of the time...


3 posted on 06/12/2018 6:43:33 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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In a few days Abraham Lincoln will deliver a speech that should bring that grim possibility into sharper focus. It remains to be seen whether the national media will notice, seeing that Lincoln is just a country lawyer waging an underdog campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from the frontier state of Illinois.


4 posted on 06/12/2018 9:08:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from June 26, 1857 (reply #44)

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

5 posted on 06/16/2018 6:12:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from November 3, 1857 (reply #3).

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

6 posted on 06/16/2018 6:15:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from May 5 (reply #13).

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Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

7 posted on 06/16/2018 6:21:14 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from June 10 (reply #15) .

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

8 posted on 06/16/2018 6:23:57 AM PDT 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

Few realized at the time how consequential the 1858 Lincoln challenge to Senator Douglas would be. Douglas made a fateful error in agreeing to public debates with Lincoln.


9 posted on 06/17/2018 11:27:46 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

... and some say we are more divided now than ever.


10 posted on 06/17/2018 4:31:38 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Page 23...

Hey for 25 cents you can learn how to catch a fish with your bare hands...

Sign me up!


11 posted on 06/24/2018 1:40:35 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: colorado tanker; Homer_J_Simpson
and some say we are more divided now than ever.

We are, the issue being much less clear than the tangible slavery of blacks in the South and the threat of its expansion. Today's issue and "culture war" is for the very soul of America, is couched in ideology, and revolves around an enemy few seem to recognize that has succeeded over the last 100+ years to almost completely eviscerate the Constitution: the $4 trillion mostly unconstitutional federal government.

From an FR post the other day, that reads almost eerily a bit like some of what Lincoln was saying here...

[W]e are in a culture war for the soul of America. The center of this war is battle for our Free Constitutional Republic. The Left discovered many decades ago they couldn’t turn us into a socialist state immediately, so they incorporated “creeping socialism” AKA creeping tyranny.

If Patriots decide that we ARE going to restore our Free Constitutional Republic, it won’t happen in a day but if we are at least as determined about freedom as the Left is about tyranny, we’ll win.

The Left is focused on exactly what it wants - Global Totalitarian Government - and will stop at nothing to get it. The problem is much of the Right has no clue what it wants and if you don’t have a clear goal, you’ll NEVER get there. Our goal SHOULD be nothing less than restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic.

The Left is willing to fight and even die for tyranny. Are we willing to fight and die for freedom? Those who are not are already POW’s or MIA’s in this war.

What does it take to win? A lot, just like it took a lot for the Left to have advanced this far in turning our country into a socialist state. We can win but before going into how you can win, you’ve got to decide that you are determined that NOTHING will take away your God-given freedoms and country.

As the Leftist tyranny has advanced, so the Right restoring freedom will come once it has the will to do it. Once you have the WILL, the HOW will come. We did it 200+ years ago against tyranny and we can and MUST do it again.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3665586/posts?page=92#92

I'll just add this as a comment about the nature of this conflict we are in:

Generally, the Left is of the flesh (and Satan) and the Right is of the spirit (and God).

"But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now."Galatians 4:29.

The Right generally likes its life and wants to be at peace while the Left is miserable and wants to make everyone else miserable. Whether Islam vs. Israel, or the American Left vs. the American Right, or tyranny vs. freedom, it is always the Left that is constantly attacking the Right. And although it is not generally its nature, the Right MUST stand up, fight, and defeat these miserable Leftists.

12 posted on 06/24/2018 3:22:31 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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