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* “The Mormons in Utah have broken out into open rebellion”
“In Kansas the Free State majority has been still further increased by the rejection of the returns from M’Gee County, which gave a “Democratic” majority of 1200, although there are not one hundred voters in the county.”
“The President has recognized the new Government of Nicaragua . . .”
“The severity of the financial pressure has relaxed during the month; but business remains in a state of great depression, and there is much distress, especially in the large cities, among those who have been thrown out of employment. . . . The month has been signalized by a series of brutal crimes, committed chiefly by foreigners, many of them almost boys.”
“An emigrant train from Missouri, proceeding to California, was attacked by Indians, about the middle of September, in the Santa Clara Canyon, some three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and of 133 persons all except fifteen were killed.”
“EUROPE: The tidings of financial panic in America were followed by a severe pressure in Great Britain. Numerous failures of houses engaged in the American trade were announced.”
“THE EAST: In India the British have met with decided success. Early in September all the reinforcements that could for some time be expected having arrived before Delhi preparations were made for a vigorous assault. General Wilson, in the order of the day said that he ‘need hardly remind the troops of the cruel murders committed on their officers and comrades, as well as their wives and children, to move them in the deadly struggle. No quarter should be given to the mutineers; at the same time, for the sake of humanity and the honor of the country they belong to, he calls upon them to spare all women and children that may come in their way.’”
“A number of American whalers have recently touched at the port of Hakodadi in Japan, and have been received favorably. They say that this port will take the place of the Sandwich Islands as a port of supply for whaling vessels, the advantages for shipping and storing oil being equal, and the climate cooler.”
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That “Full Dress Toilet” on page 16 practically needs its own zip code. I realize it’s winter in New York, but honestly ... who even has time to put that stuff on?
It should be remembered that ALL “newspapers” (including Harper’s) were political. Since the 1820s, when the DemoKKKrat party was created by Martin Van Buren, papers were founded, staffed, and directed solely by political operatives with the goal of electing (at first) DemoKKKrats, then later, Whigs, then later, Republicans.
Hence in the masthead, the “Arkansas Democrat,” the “Springfield Republican.” As long as one reads the “news” with that in mind, they can be helful.
It’s also worth noting that after the election of 1858, Congress was SO DIVIDED the House could not even elect a speaker! And they say we are “so divided” today!
Anachronism: there was no KKK until the 1860s.
I finally figured out what the fashions of 1856-58 remind me of. They make the wearers resemble giant, ornate badminton birdies.
That is absolutely true!
Although, now that I think of it, I believe they were still calling the game “battledore and shuttlecock” at the time, so the ladies appear as giant shuttlecocks.
Sure there was. It was in the hearts & minds of the DemoKKKrats founded by Martin Van Buren.
Just Mormons being Mormon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre
“The Bible in the school is one of the rights and privileges a free Christian people should never surrender...”
Hmmm....
Note: This excerpt is from a section of Editor's Drawer beginning on page 8, column 2.
Interesting, thanks for the link.
Interesting, thanks for the link.
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Yes, very interesting. Seems that the Mormons were savages themselves.
One of my grandfathers in Pennsylvania and a grandmother in Kansas taught school (one-room schoolhouses) in the early 1900s.
Both began each day with a Bible reading and prayer, and am pretty sure they would not have allowed younger children to lead either, for the obvious reasons this article cites.
I too remember elementary school classes which began that way.
By 1962 most of the old one-room schoolhouses were closed & combined into larger elementary schools.
In 1962 such teaching of the Bible was forbidden by the Supreme Court and that was also the time when many of my Pennsylvania Dutch neighbors began pulling their children out of public schools and started schools of their own.
Humans of all nationalities, races, and religions do “savage” things.
Looking at history through the lens of newspapers would have driven my methods professor nuts. Still there are some things they’d have more trouble lying about. I’d imagine their readers would have challenged them over the details of middle class life if they were too far off the mark.
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