Harper’s Weekly – March 26, 1859

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | March 26, 1859

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Wreck of the “Adonis” – 1-2
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 1, 3
Editorials – 3-4
Correspondence – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-6
Financial and Commercial – 6
Weekly Market Summary – 6
The Terrible Homicide at Hawesville, Kentucky – 7-9
The Pistol-Shot – 9
Flying Foxes – 9-10
Fencing at Boston – 10-11
The Purchase of Cuba Pictorially Considered – 12-14
Execution of the Djeddah Murderers – 15-16
The Foreign Squadrons Before Vera Cruz – 15, 17
Chess Chronicle – 15
Our Cousin Alice – 18-20
Willie’s Troubles – 20-21
Life-Scenes In the South-Illustrative of God’s Providence – 22-24
Struggle For Life With a Maniac – 23-26
The Weekly Farmer – 26
Appalling Catastrophe - 27

[Tax-chick]

I’m a lot fonder of bats than most people are, but the huge, leathery wings on those flying foxes give me the heebie-jeebies.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

Amazing, Trump is on the cover of “Harper’s Weekly.”

Who knew?

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Before long he will be competing with a new novel by Charles Dickens. But we will have “Trumps” with us for quite a while.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from December 16, 1858 (reply #16) . “. . . we have been Constitutioned to death” (last paragraph) is part of today’s entry in the journal of Henry Miles Moore.

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from March 20 (reply #5.) ]

March 28. Have been rushing about town tonight, seeking affidavits to be used before the Senate Judiciary Committee, showing that “Trinity School” notoriously existed before it was incorporated, and in 1796, the date of Baker’s will. Hunted up old Samuel Gilford at last, whose ancient recollections serve my purpose. He remembers the Rev. Mr. Inglis, the last of the loyal rectors of Trinity Church, preaching his farewell sermon in St. George’s Chapel prior to his evacuation of the city along with the royal forces.

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

[colorado tanker]

As the Kansas question was decided in favor of the Free State people, pro-slave towns like Lecompton did not thrive. Today, it's a small town near Lawrence that tries to snag tourists with a billboard promoting its Constitution Hall and Territorial Capital museum. Of course, unsuspecting tourists don't learn until they get into the museum that the constitution legalized slavery.

An amusing part of the complex is a building that is billed as the birthplace of the Kansas Democratic Party, which indeed it was - in the 1850's. It was the slaver's party.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Tomorrow’s post is related in that it involves a question of slavery in the neighboring state of Missouri, frequently a focal point in “Burning Kansas.” A key character in this Missouri matter will become, after a slow start, a major player in our history course.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The previous excerpt from this volume was on June 5, 1858 (reply #3).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

[colorado tanker]

Thanks, Homer. I did not know this about Grant. Says something very good about the man.

[onedoug]

“Our afflicted Hero”....