Harper’s Weekly – January 29, 1859

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 29, 1859

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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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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

Link to previous thread

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Rev. J.W. Cummings, D.D. – 2-4
A Frost Song – 4
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Employment of Women-Article III – 8-10
The Knight’s Leap at Altenahr – 10
The Pope’s Railway Car – 11-13
Literary – 12, 14
Notes on Cuba – 15-20
The Murderous Ischvostchik: A Story of the Czar Nicholas – 21-23
A Little Story – 23
Esther – 23-24
Arrest of the Members of the Irish Phenix Society – 25
Strange Religious Ceremony at Monaco – 26-27
Dancing Bears in India – 26-27
Concerning a Bird – 27-29
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 29-30
Chess Chronicle – 30
Things Wise and Otherwise – 30
Adventures of Mr. Grouty and His Nephew at the Auction Sale of Unclaimed Baggage at Albany – 31

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Continued from January 8 (reply #3) .

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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[Continued from January 28 (reply #18.)]

January 31. The illustrious Prescott died suddenly at Boston. I shall not miss the highly respectable volumes of Philip the Second that perish unborn. I am tired of history in dress coat and patent-leather pumps, Clio in hoops and powder.

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

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William Hickling Prescott Wikipedia page

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, February 1859

WORCESTER, February, 1859

George [William] Curtis lectured here last week. With the most delicious elocution we have — except perhaps Wendell Phillips's — and a fascinating rhetoric and an uncorrupted moral integrity, he showed yet a want of intellectual vigor and training which will always prevent him from being a great man. Yet he perfectly fascinated everybody.

SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 72

civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Wikipedia page

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[Continued from January 31 (reply #4).]

February 1. Newspapers still busy with predictions of European war; France and Austria to fight for Italy. Doubtful. Neither can afford the luxury.

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

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France and Austria to fight for Italy. Doubtful. Neither can afford the luxury.

That usually doesn't stop countries from doing it anyway.

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[Continued from February 1 (reply #7.)]

February 2. Hoffman tells me K. Armstrong is investigating spiritualism again with Peter Porter, and that the lady who is now working the telegraphic lines to the invisible world for their benefit (one Mrs. Hayden) produces sundry marvelous phenomena. I query whether society was in a more or less enlightened and healthy state of morals and intelligence a couple of hundred years ago when this wonder-working female would have been whipped at the cart’s tail, or yet more severely dealt with.

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

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Wow, he didn’t like spiritualists much.

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Continued from January 29 (reply #3.)

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher