Harper’s Weekly – January 8, 1859

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.

Posting history, in reverse order

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

Link to previous thread

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The Statue of Senator Douglas – 1-2
John Bright, Esq. – 2-3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 5-6
Pictorial History of the Famous Central American Bone, Likewise of the Lion, and the Eagle, and the Cock, and the Filibuster Who Quarreled About the Bone – 7-9
General Jackson’s Duel with Dickinson – 10-12
The Late Captain Ludlow – 13-15
A Dead Man’s Revenge – 16-20
The New Danseuse, Emma Livry – 20-21
The Late Solar Eclipse, as Seen Near Rio Janeiro – 21
Chess Chronicle – 21-22
Things Wise and Otherwise – 22
Weekly Market Summary – 22
Financial and Commercial – 22
Rich and Poor - 23

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from December 11, 1858 (reply #3) .

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

[Rinnwald]

“The Phrenological Journal devoted to all...Progressive Measures for the Elevation and Improvement of Mankind.”

Progressives: getting it wrong for 160 years.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Brown to His Family, January 11, 1859

OSAWATOMIE, KANSAS, Jan. 11, 1859.

DEAR CHILDREN, ALL, — I have but a moment in which to tell you that I am in middling health; but have not been able to tell you as yet where to write me. This I hope will be different soon. I suppose you get Kansas news generally through the papers.1 May God ever bless you all!

Your affectionate father,
JOHN BROWN.
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1 They would thus learn that he had made his foray, and that both Governor Medary of Kansas and President Buchanan had set a price on his head. Charles Robinson's account of this foray (published twenty years later in the “Topeka Commonwealth”) is characteristic: “Brown and his heroes went over the line into Missouri, killed an old peaceable citizen, and robbed him of all the personal effects they could drive or carry away. Such proceedings caused the Free-State men to organize to drive him from the Territory; and he went to Harper's Ferry, where he displayed his wonderful generalship in committing suicide.”

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 489-90

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from January 7 (reply #35.) ]

January 13. Poor Hanslein has had a dreadful struggle with subtraction. The educational hour before dinner today was tragic and tearful. He grasps new notions slowly and hardly, and the instant he gets wrong, loses his self-possession and becomes hopelessly muddled. But he is a brick and his future promises none the worse for his developing slowly. . . .

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

[Tax-chick]

Poor Hanslein sounds a lot like Poor Frank. But he’s a brick ...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

He sounds a lot like me. Subtraction was a bear. But by the time we got to long division I was a lot tougher. Btw, “Hanslein” is young John Ruggles Strong, according to the volume II index. Born autumn of 1851, so 7 years old. George Jr. was born in May 1856 so is 2 going on 3 and still has higher mathematics to look forward to.

[Tax-chick]

I figured “Hanslein” referred to “John.” George T is just showing off his languages.

Decimal place value is a construct, after all, not a fact of nature!