* “The state of things in Utah has during the past month occupied a large share of public attention. In order to check the treasonable designs of the Mormon leaders, it has been determined by the President to send a considerable military force to this Territory, under the command of General Harney. Brigham Young is to be removed from his post as Governor . . .”
Report on Kansas Governor Walker’s address of May 24.
New York wants to move their Quarantine establishment from Staten Island to Sandy Hook, in New Jersey, but the legislature of that state forbids it. Meanwhile, a Staten Island mob burned the buildings there meant to temporarily house the hospital.
The Burdell murder trial ended with no convictions.
Federal authorities attempted to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act in Ohio and were vigorously resisted by Ohioans.
Marines were called to quell a battle between Democratic and American Party combatants in Washington. Six were killed and 15 or 20 injured.
Pearls discovered in Patterson, NJ.
Dred Scott has been emancipated.
Insurrection by Mexican Catholic clergy suppressed. Province of Sonora invaded by Californians led by Col. Crabbe.
“The enterprise of Walker in Nicaragua has at length come to an end, for the present at least.” A lengthy account of same follows.
Current events end with news of Europe and The East. Treaty negotiations between Great Britain and Persia included a battle costing 10 British and 200 Persian lives.
Additional U.S. troops have reached China. “Seventeen piratical junks were destroyed by boats from the steamer Hornet.”
And so on.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting!
Cholera is caused by humidity and a high dew point? Wow, now that’s some real science! I’m sure they never thought that their great scientific discoveries were going to be laughed at as much as we laugh at the fashion of the day; dresses with hoops the size of battleships.
I’m also sure that today’s scientists would get quite indignant if you suggested that some day, people of the future will laugh at them just as much. **cough cough**Global warming**cough cough**
In another vein, look at the disparity in casualties in the skirmish between the British and Persians. We are at the beginning of the period of greatest European colonial power, and it’s because the gap between European military technology and organization and the rest of the world will never be larger. With the exception of Adowa in 1898, when the Ethiopians upset the Italians, and one or two skirmishes in South Africa, any battle between Eurpoeans and the natives will be a blowout in favor of the Europeans. I supppose you could include Litte Big Horn, too. However, the common denominator in these fights is that the natives must have overwhelming numerical superiority and are willing to suffer enormous casualties to “win.”
Kind of ironic that H. G. Wells’ book “War of the Worlds” was a commentary on this; to the natives, the European armies could well have been a vastly superior alien technology. Wells was reminding his readers that “there is always a bigger fish,” even though in 1897 there were no bigger fish in the pond.
Thanks for the class.
In the fwiw dept, there were large numbers of Mormons killed during that period.
Imho the Seventh day Adventist’s doctrines are unusual, but it didn’t require killing them.
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I like the “Family Daguerreotypes” on page 23 and 24, especially, “Sister Mary Ann, who writes poetry.”