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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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

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Beginning with the May 26 edition and continuing through the June 30 edition there was a problem with the original copies from which the pdf files were created. There was apparently water damage along the spines of the magazines so there are blank spots on the bottom corners of each page, which translates in to blank spots on every page or so of my recreated. I have omitted a few articles that have serious gaps in them. I have included the serials that some readers may be following even when there are gaps. The June 30 issue is the worst and the problem appears to end there. I will add a notice if it starts again.

General Garibaldi – 1-2
The Woof of Life – 1, 3
Editorials – 3
The Lounger – 3-5
Humors of the Day – 5-6
Map of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – 6-7
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XIX – 6, 8-9
Lambda Herculis– 9-10
Domestic Intelligence – 10-11
Foreign News – 11-12
Naples and Messina – 13-16
Unforgotten Words – 16-18
Tenants at Number Twenty-Seven – 18-21
The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina – 21-22
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 21, 23-25
What is a Salamander – 25
Demoralizing Influence of the Late Prize Fight - 26

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Continued from June 7 (reply #20)

Per footnote #5: A Virginia-born physician, George M. Harrison (1813-73) had served with Lincoln in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and provided William H. Herndon a full account of his reminiscences of that event.

With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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Continued from June 7 (reply #19.)

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

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Salmon P. Chase to Senator Charles Sumner, June 11, 1860

COLUMBUS, June 11, 1860.

MY DEAR SUMNER, Your great speech came tome, under your frank, this morning. I had read it all — in the “Bulletin” of Phila. in the “Times” of N. Y. and in the '”Globe” — before I received the pamphlet copy. It is gratifying to know that the N. Y. Herald also prints it, and that, through various channels of publication, it will reach every corner of the land, “cogens omnes ante thronum."

“C’est prequ’ [sic] un discours antique,” said a French gentleman to me last Saturday. I say, C'est bien plus

Faithfully yours,

[SALMON P. CHASE.]

SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 288

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