[Homer_J_Simpson]

New series! Examine the post and see if these images are sufficiently readable to provide value. As you can see by using the link to the Harper’s Weekly archive the reproduction provided is greatly reduced from the original, which I figure must be about the same in size as a Life Magazine. I print the pages at 175% of the displayed size and then reassemble the articles in a smaller size, hoping to wind up with text that is large enough and still clear enough to read. I used a template measuring 5”X7.25” to assemble the images. I can go still smaller if that would help but that would increase the number of images and time required to prepare each edition. I’m still leaving out some of the text because it is in a font even smaller than what I kept. In this way I have prepared all the editions for January through March. Each original issue has 16 pages. I will post 12 or 13 of them, approximately, omitting only the extra small font text and a few ads. Maybe some of you reading this can visit the archive site and figure out a superior method to present the magazine. I downloaded and saved the 1.57M pdf file and work from that.

To the Public – 2
The Old Year – 2
The Financial Panic in Europe – 2
Settlement of the Kansas Question – 2
Senator Douglas – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Bohemian Walks and Talks – 4-7
Travel Notes in Bible Lands – 8-9
The Life of American Students at Heidelberg – 12-14
A Submarine Railway between England and France – 14-17
Reminiscences of the Prussian Police – 18-19

[rdl6989]

It looks fine to me. I can adjust my browser with “control” and the mouse wheel to make the print a little bigger, but it looks fine.

[rdl6989]

It looks fine to me. I can adjust my browser with “control” and the mouse wheel to make the print a little bigger, but it looks fine.

[rdl6989]

In Kansas another vote was held on the Lecompton Constitution on January 4 1858. Here is a link with some images of that proposed constitution and more information.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/207409

ARTICLE VII.- SLAVERY.

SECTION 1. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.

SEC. 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent immigrants to the State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States or Territories, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State: Provided, That such person or slave be the bona fide property of such immigrants: And provided, also, That laws may be passed to prohibit the introduction into this State of slaves who have committed high crimes in other States or Territories. They shall have power to pass laws to permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them from becoming a public charge. They shall have power to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and, in case of their neglect or refusal to comply with the direction of such laws, to have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the owner or owners.

[Tax-chick]

I find it legible. The part about the “Chunnel” was very interesting.