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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.

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Mrs. Sickles’s Confession – 2-3
My Life is Wrong – 3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 5-6
Cardinal Antonelli and Rome in 1859 – 7-8
General Geffrard, President of Hayti – 9
New York City – 9-11
Hanged By the Neck – 12-14
The Half-Brothers – 14-15
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. VI-VIII – 16-18
Our Special Paris Correspondent – 18-19
The Weekly Farmer – 19-20
Humors of the Day – 20-21
The Solemnity of an Oath – 21
A Good Precaution – 21

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[Continued from April 22 (reply #17.) ]

April 23, SATURDAY. Tonight at Wrey Mould’s funny little house in Twenty-sixth Street, hearing his little musical club. I think they out-do us. Organ and piano accompaniments, eight-handed – and difficult music clearly rendered at sight. Cherubini’s Fourth Mass, a couple of movements from Mozart’s Seventh (far the finest of his shorter Masses I think – certainly most lovely from credo to finale), parts of the Lobgesang, and so on. Performers not generally “in society,” I think; some of them semi-professional. My old grammar school teacher Dr. Quin is among them.

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

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Senator William H. Seward to Thurlow Weed, April 29, 1859

WASHINGTON, April 29, 1859.

DEAR WEED, — The southern and western politicians have habits and usages different from ours. They come upon me with a directness which confounds me. I have two or three subjects submitted by them which I propose to you now, because in the hurry of preparing my business for departure for Europe I must save time. You can keep this letter at hand and refer to it at leisure.

Many southern gentlemen express to me a wish that the national convention may be held somewhere on the border. Without expressing any opinion about it as an abstract question, I think our friends ought to know that it was understood at Washington that Humphrey Marshall intends to go over to the Democrats. If Louisville should be suggested as the place, the committee would of course consider Mr. Marshall's position in connection with the subject. It might have a bearing against such a selection.

The Baltimore “———” is in trouble. Mayor Swayne, Judge Lee, Mr. Cole, and others there want to have the paper reorganized and brought into the position of an organ in that State and for the country south of the Potomac, of the Republican party. They had Simon Cameron over there a week or two ago to confer. They think they will need some funds from the North, but I am satisfied that if they only had the benefit of your advice and Cameron's, they would be able to subscribe all the funds they want, and would promptly do so. Cameron and I promised them that we would ask you to meet him there. Cameron knows them all, and he will go at any time.

Speaking of Cameron, I promised him when he left Washington to spend a day or so with him on my way home. He took me to his house, told me all was right. He was for me, and Pennsylvania would be. It might happen that they would cast the first ballot for him, but he was not in, etc. He brought the whole legislature of both parties to see me, feasted them gloriously, and they were in the main so generous as to embarrass me.

I have Stetson's letter to you. Corwin is uneasy and fidgety; but persons who live in Ohio have excuses. They are inheritors of a noble reversion, and they would like to extinguish the present estate without being able or willing to pay its cost. He wrote me a month ago, inclosing a pitiful piece of twaddle from a correspondent of the “Express,” saying that he was against me as everybody else was. He contradicted the allegation, and said that the Cincinnati “Gazette” would contain an authorized denial. . . .

You will find John S. Pendleton, of Virginia, bold enough and well disposed for anything. The man in the District of Columbia is Henry Addison, now Mayor of Georgetown. He is wise, honest, indomitable and unreserved. You may send him safely anywhere.

Yours faithfully,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

SOURCE: Harriet A. Weed, Editor, Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir, Volume 2, p. 256-7

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