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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

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Cold-The Lodger Out – 2, 4
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Fact, Fancy, and Fun, By a Southern Lawyer – 8-9
How Royal Youths Enjoy Themselves in Europe – 10-12
Dr. Horace Green and His Method – 13-18
The Sunlight In Her Hair – 19
The Residuary Legatee – 19-20
The Weekly Farmer – 20-22
On a Tear – 22
Hon. John Cochrane, of New York – 22-23
A Story of Our Family – 22, 24-26
Robert Burns – 26-27
How Memorials For the Increase of the Pay of the Navy Are Treated at Washington – 29

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Samuel Gridley Howe to John M. Forbes, February 5, 1859

NEW YORK, February 5,1859.

MY DEAR SIR, — A friend requests me to write a line to you introducing Captain John Brown of Kansas.

I have carefully watched the movements of Brown for two years and have considerable personal knowledge of him. He is of the stuff of which martyrs are made. He is of the Puritan order militant. He is called fighting Brown, because under his natural and unaffected simplicity and modesty there is an irresistible propensity to war upon injustice and wrong. He is cool, fearless, keen, and ready with all his mental and bodily powers in the most sudden and imminent dangers. If you would like to talk with him upon the square, and hear what he has to say about what might perhaps seem at first to be treason, he will be glad to talk with you.

So far as one man can answer for another whom he has not known very long and intimately, I can answer for Brown's honesty of purpose.

Faithfully yours,
S. G. HOWE.

SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 1, p.178

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Bulwer-Lytton's book is out! "It was a dark and stormy night."

They don't write 'em like that any more! (Thank goodness!)

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Resolution of the Citizens of Tabor, Iowa, February 7, 1859

Resolved, That while we sympathize with the oppressed, and will do all that we conscientiously can to help them in their efforts for freedom, nevertheless we have no sympathy with those who go to slave States to entice away slaves and take property or life when necessary to attain that end.

J. S. Smith, Secretary.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 488

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Continued from February 2 (reply #9.)

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

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John Brown to His Family, February 10, 1859

TABOR, IOWA, Feb. 10, 1859.

DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN, ALL, — I am once more in Iowa, through the great mercy of God. Those with me, and other friends, are well. I hope soon to be at a point where I can learn of your welfare, and perhaps send you something besides my good wishes. I suppose you get the common news. May the God of my fathers be your God!

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 490

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