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Harper’s Weekly – September 25, 1858
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 25, 1858

Posted on 09/25/2018 4:55:47 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 09/25/2018 4:55:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Rev. Samuel I. Prime, D.D.* – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
The Army of Occupation on Staten Island – 7-10
Weekly Market Summary/Financial and Commercial – 8
The Comet – 11
Paul Morphy, Esq. – 12-13
The Son of France – 13
Lumbering in Maine– 14-18
Conversations Across the Atlantic Cable – 18
Our Wall – 18-20
Views In and About Salt Lake City – 20-21
An Hour with a Pickpocket – 22-23
Gudgeon’s Visit to the Fishing Banks – 23-24

*"Photo by Brady." That would be Matthew Brady, who will provide much photographic documentation of the Civil War.

2 posted on 09/25/2018 4:59:46 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 September 24 (reply #22).

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

3 posted on 09/25/2018 5:03:26 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 January 28 (reply #12).

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James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

4 posted on 09/25/2018 5:05:22 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 September 18 (reply #7) .

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

5 posted on 09/25/2018 5:10:03 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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How very contemporary this all sounds. I find it reassuring that the same old issues are still the same old issues, and here we are, still kicking after another 150 years.


6 posted on 09/25/2018 5:24:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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Poor Mr. Sherman. He seems to have been in the right place at the wrong time so often: California when the boom went bust, and so on.

“It makes me regret my being out of service thus to meet my old comrades, in the open field, just where I most like to be.”

This reminds me of my father, who would have stayed in the Navy another 20 years (after the first 30) if they had let him. However, Dad could not have equaled the lovely composition of Sherman’s sentence. He could write either basic noun-verb-object compositions or highly-garbled militarese jargon.


7 posted on 09/25/2018 5:29:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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I spent 18 months at the Big Red One, with frequent trips to Leavenworth.

The history of both are very interesting (The Indian “problem.”)

5.56mm


8 posted on 09/25/2018 10:56:16 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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Ft. Riley is in the Flint Hills, rolling hills from west of Topeka to a little west of Junction City (KS). They are really beautiful and at one time were covered in tallgrass prairie. Some of it is preserved in the National Park Service Preserve.


9 posted on 09/25/2018 3:41:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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In 1858 Lincoln and Douglas had a series of joint debates in this State, and this city was one place of meeting. Mr. Lincoln's step-mother was making her home with my father and mother at that time. Mr. Lincoln stopped at our house, and as he was going away my mother said to him: "Uncle Abe, I want a picture of you." He replied, "Well, Harriet, when I get home I will have one taken for you and send it to you." Soon after, mother received the photograph, which she still has, already framed, from Springfield, Illinois, with a letter from Mr. Lincoln, in which he said, "This is not a very good-looking picture, but it's the best that could be produced from the poor subject." He also said that he had it taken solely for my mother."

— Mr. K. N. Chapman of Charleston, Illinois, great-grandson of Sarah Bush Lincoln

List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln

10 posted on 09/26/2018 5:02:40 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 September 25 (reply #3). The quote from the Chicago Tribune in paragraph 7 about Douglas’s appearance was published on this date.

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

11 posted on 09/28/2018 3:24:13 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 September 23 (reply #18) .

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

12 posted on 09/28/2018 3:30:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Interesting to note that Douglas was a heavy drinker while Lincoln did not touch alcohol. Douglas is said to have criticized Lincoln for selling whiskey at his general store. Lincoln is said to have replied: The difference is that I was behind the bar and Judge Douglas was in front of it.


13 posted on 09/28/2018 3:51:33 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

The scansion is not very good, but at least it rhymes. I hope Rosa’s beau will marry her before he joins the Army ...


14 posted on 09/28/2018 8:00:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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We drove across that area several times when going from Oklahoma to Missouri (and back). One would get rather sleepy driving in that area ...


15 posted on 09/28/2018 8:04:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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[Continued from September 24 (reply #23) .]

September 29. The Atlantic cable speechless still. Its high priests talk of defective insulation at some point probably not less than two hundred miles west of Valentia, and are quite confident the interruption is only temporary. Hard to conceive of a remedy! People begin to turn up their noses at the house of Field and at the grand Cyrus in particular. What can the precise difficulty be? Perhaps some weak point in the gutta-percha casing has been infiltrated under the pressure of a thousand fathoms of water. Perhaps some huge sting ray grubbing in the oozy bed of ocean for bivalve mollusca has closed his massive grinding dental plates on the cable, mistaking it for an overgrown scrupula, and given it a fatal crunch.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

16 posted on 09/29/2018 6:33:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The scansion is not very good, but at least it rhymes.

In the end he might have more success in politics than as a poet. Although he can occasionally string some memorable sentences together.

17 posted on 09/29/2018 8:58:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Not everyone can write poetry.


18 posted on 09/29/2018 11:45:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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Continued from September 28 (reply #12).

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

19 posted on 09/30/2018 8:10:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Awwww, that’s a charming sentiment ... but not everyone can write poetry. The attempt to rhyme “pure” and “stir” hurt my teeth.


20 posted on 09/30/2018 8:19:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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