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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. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

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The Atlantic Cable Festivities – 1, 10-12
How Cyrus Laid the Cable – 2
Editorials – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-5
Fact, Fancy, and Fun – 6-7
The Burning of the Quarantine on Staten Island – 8-9
What a Ridiculous Fashion! – 12
My Aquatic Reminiscences – 12-14
The Outrage at Jaffa – 14
Cherbourg – 15-17
Miscellany – 17-18
Effect of the Atlantic Telegraph on the European Despots - 19

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Continued from August 27 (reply #24) .

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Continued from August 31 (reply #6) .

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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John Brown, September 13, 1858

Sept. 13, 1858.

Yours of the 25th August, containing draft of Mr. S. for fifty dollars is received. I am most grateful for it, and to you for your kind letter. This would have been sooner mailed but for want of stamps and envelopes. I am gaining slowly, but hope to be on my legs soon. Have no further news. Mailed, September 15. Still weak.

Your friend.
[JOHN BROWN.] SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 477-8

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John Brown to Mary Ann Day Brown, September 13, 1858

OSAWATOMIE, KANSAS, Sept. 13, 1858.

DEAR WIFE, — Your letter of the 25th August I was most glad to get, notwithstanding it told me of your trials; and 1 would be thankful that the same hand that brought me your letter brought me another, supplying me with the means of sending you some relief. I hope you will all learn to put your trust in God, and not become discouraged when you meet with poor success and with losses. I wrote you two or three days ago, telling you how I had been sick, but was getting better. I am still very weak, and write with great labor. I enclose draft for fifty dollars, payable to Watson. I want Mr. Allen paid out of it, to his full satisfaction, for the barrel of flour lent, as a first thing, and the balance used to supply substantial comforts for the family, or to pay any little debts. I shall have the means, after a while, of paying for another yoke of oxen, and I hope to have it soon; but of that I cannot be certain. It would be well to make considerable inquiry for a good, youngish yoke, without faults, and also to find where you can get them most reasonably for the money. Do not, any of you, go in debt for a team. You may, perhaps, hire a few days' work of some good team to log with, or of some good man to help to pile logs without a team, sad I will endeavor to send the pay on for that soon. Do the best you can, and neither be hasty nor discouraged. You must acknowledge the receipt of this at once, and tell me all how you get along. May God abundantly bless you all!

Your affectionate husband.
[JOHN BROWN.]

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 478-9

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Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

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Continued from August 27 (reply #23).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from March 3 (reply #12) .

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909