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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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The Army Printing-Press – 2
The Emperor’s Camp Tent – 2-4
To the Public – 4
Editorials – 4-6
The Lounger – 6-7
The Race on Eclipse Course – 8-9
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Book II, Ch VII-VIII – 9-12
The Fourth July – 12
The Emperor and Empress of the French – 13-15
A Night With a Crusader – 15-18
The Councilman’s Ballad – 18
The Weekly Farmer – 18
A Tyrolese Rifleman – 19-20
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. XXXV-XXXVI – 20-23
Humors of the Day – 23-24
The Way American Citizens are Treated Abroad – 25

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I have to think the cartoon is referring to some letter Secretary of State Cass wrote that had something to do with an American being drafted into the Austrian Army, but I can't find any reference to it online.

I actually expected the Emperor's camp tent would be more gaudy than is depicted.

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Continued from May 19 (reply #12) .

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

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Charles L. Robinson to Amos A. Lawrence, about July 1859

You may not know it and the people of Kansas may not be sensible of it, but I am very much mistaken in my estimate of the influences that have contributed to the freedom of Kansas, if we are not far more indebted to you than to any other man for our success. Without your name, the Emigrant Aid Company would have been a cipher, and without your encouragement, courage, and support, what little I have been able to do would have been left undone.

SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence: With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 112-3

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Diary of John Brown, July 5, 1859

Wrote John and Jason about freight, etc.; also wife; also Charles Blair to forward freight; also to write I. Smith & Sons at Chambersburg. Gave Oliver for expenses $160. Gave Stephens for expenses, June 17, at West Andover, $25.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520

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Continued from June 23 (reply #16).

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

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Continued from June 22, 1858 (reply #9)

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Continued from June 22 (reply #15).

July 7. There has been another battle on the largest scale and Austria beat again. Poor Austria! – “Bella gerant alii” indeed. Only a brief telegram had reached London. It was on the banks of the Mincio. Two hundred and eighty thousand Austrians (it’s said) concentrated on that line (but this must include the garrisons of the four strongholds there); a complete victory after sixteen hours of fighting and immense carnage. There will be another Te Deum in Notre Dame, and, I think, a Te Diabolum down below.

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

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Diary of John Brown, July 8, 1859

Wrote John, enclosing two fifty-dollar drafts. Gave John Henrie forty dollars for expenses.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520

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