Perusing through Harper’s weekly, there is no hint that in three years America will be torn by civil war.
And the article on Salt Lake City was interesting. For America east of the Mississippi, Salt Lake City might as well have been a colony on Mars.
The readers seem to be more concerned with events in Utah than the gathering storm fueled by slavery. Harper's Weekly is, at any rate. There have been at least 3 or 4 long articles about Utah and there are more to come.
The Dred Scott Decision and Bleeding Kansas have faded out as topics. The keen observer of current events might get some sense of the approaching troubles by paying close attention to the Illinois canvass and studying the implications of the words of Lincoln and Douglas.