Harper’s Weekly – April 30, 1859

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 30, 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 Late Chancellor Bibb – 2-4
A New Tale By Dickens – 3
Editorials – 4-6
The Lounger – 6-7
A Balloon Railway – 8-9
Bombay and Commissioner Reed’s Return – 8, 10-14
May-Day – 15-17
Our Special Paris Correspondent – 17-18
The Midnight Horseman – 18-20
The Weekly Farmer – 20
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. IX-XII – 21-24
The Armstrong Gun – 24-25
The War With Paraguay – 25

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 16 (reply #4.)

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

[2banana]

You read a paper like this - less than a year before the civil war starts.

Not even a clue what is coming.

Comparisons to today?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Really about 2 years. But yeah, it is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Secession talk has been going on for years. After the 1860 Presidential campaign begins publicly in Charleston next April it will get louder, with southerners proclaiming an “abolitionist” Republican president will cause breakup of the union. But still, most people won’t really believe it.

[colorado tanker]

Rosemary does not grow hair or cure dandruff.

But it flavors roast potatoes very nicely.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 26 (reply #7.)

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

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 2 (reply #7.)

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

[Tax-chick]

Dandruff is caused by either skin inflammation or a fungus related to yeast. Rosemary oil might help with either one of those, and curing an inflamed scalp might improve one’s hair growth.

[Tax-chick]

“A Tale of Two Cities” is about to be released, just the thing for those who have trouble falling asleep. Just kidding, as Dickens goes, it’s a rip-roaring action tale.

Dickens’s heroines lack complexity.

[Tax-chick]

Have you tried Park’s Prickly Plasters, page 14?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I need something to soothe the pain. A prickly plaster sounds like just the ticket.

[Tax-chick]

It doesn’t explain why (or how) they are “prickly.”