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| October 15, 1859
Posted on 10/15/2019 5:17:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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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, Harpers 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.
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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Our Serials and Our Circulation 1
Sketches of People Who Oppose Our Sunday Laws: No. II, Sunday Evening in a Beer Garden 1-3
The Village Barber 3
Editorials 3-5
The Lounger 5-6
The English Cricketers 6-7
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. LX-LXII 8-10
Cricket and Baseball 11-12
Tom Rocket 12-13
A Good Fight, by Charles Reade, Ch. XXXII-XXXVII 13-16
Juan Rafael Mora, Ex-President of Costa Rica 16-17
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Book III, Ch VI-VII 18-20
Humors of the Day 20
Scene-A Fashionable Place on the Sea-Shore 21
On Board the Rival Line to California 21
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10/15/2019 5:20:25 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from September 14
(reply #9) .
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography
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10/15/2019 5:22:44 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
[Continued from October 6
(reply #11.) ]
October 15. Entered George Anthon with a telegram from Richmond to his revered papa. Unconditional restoration (of Bishop Onderdonk) voted down in the House of Bishops by twenty-six against eight. Very right and wise, I think. But wont they agree on some compromise between restoration pure and simple and restoration with jurisdiction? This looks unlike it, to be sure. . . .
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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10/15/2019 5:27:09 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from September 15 (reply #3).
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography
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10/16/2019 5:01:22 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from September 17 (reply #3).
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
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10/16/2019 5:03:27 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from April 18 (reply #10) .
William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American
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10/16/2019 5:05:22 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 15 (reply #4).
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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10/16/2019 5:08:16 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
The mysterious event, finally revealed!
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10/16/2019 5:08:30 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
The last time a major American publication would feature the game of cricket?
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10/16/2019 7:56:23 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
The last time a major American publication would feature the game of cricket?I don't know about that, but the question raised in the editorial about whether "baseball is our national game" will generate some controversy. It seems that some in the west (Midwest, to people in the 21st century) take exception to the notion that they don't know baseball east of the Hudson. We will hear from them in subsequent issues.
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10/16/2019 8:57:18 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 4 (reply #8) .
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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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10/17/2019 4:59:11 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from March 23 (reply #6.)
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
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10/17/2019 5:01:34 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 17 (reply #12).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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10/18/2019 5:05:43 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 17 (reply #13).
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
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10/18/2019 5:07:09 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
John Brown to Major William W. Russell, October 18, 1859 My name is John Brown; I have been well known as Old Brown of Kansas. Two of my sons were killed here to-day, and I'm dying too. I came here to liberate slaves, and was to receive no reward. I have acted from a sense of duty, and am content to await my fate; but I think the crowd have treated me badly. I am an old man. Yesterday I could have killed whom I chose; but I had no desire to kill any person, and would not have killed a man had they not tried to kill me and my men. I could have sacked and burned the town, but did not; I have treated the persons whom I took as hostages kindly, and I appeal to them for the truth of what I say. If I had succeeded in running off slaves this time, I could have raised twenty times as many men as I have now, for a similar expedition. But I have failed.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 560-1
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John Brown to Mr. Mills, Master of the Harpers Ferry Armory, October 18, 1859
We are Abolitionists from the North, come to take and release your slaves; our organization is large, and must succeed. I suffered much in Kansas, and expect to suffer here, in the cause of human freedom. Slaveholders I regard as robbers and murderers; and I have sworn to abolish slavery and liberate my fellow-men.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 561; "The Harper's Ferry Rebellion," The New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 20, 1859, p. 1
civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com
Lewis E. Harvey to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, October 18, 1859
RICHMOND, [VA.], October 18th, 1859.
DEAR HUNTER: I have been expecting a letter from you for some time past. And I write now to know whether the correspondence by your friends hereabouts has been politic and prudent and such as you approve. The fact is that without hearing from you frequently, we feel at a loss how to act. As to Douglas, for instance, it was necessary to take action and we did so, upon reflection unaided by our friends elsewhere. Was our course good or bad? Now in regard to this Harper's Ferry imbroglio, in its political bearing or that which it will be made to assume by designing men, we should like to hear your views. Of course we will stand up to and by our section at all hazards and to the last extremity, but we do not desire nor design that this outbreak should be used to subserve the selfish purposes or schemes of profligate and unprincipled politicians.
We have been very still and quiet of late, thinking that it was best; on me rely to write freely and fully, you know that you can do so unreservedly. Wm Old's eyes are still, too bad to be used. He is now staying with Frank Ruffin and can give more active supervision to the paper than he has been able heretofore to do. Jack Barbour thinks that things are moving well and that quiescence now is the best policy. He is very hopeful. He has been North and East as far as Boston. He thinks Douglas is done and you rising.
SOURCE: Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter, 1826-1876, p. 272-3
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John Brown to a Reporter, either October 18 or 19, 1859
I intended to remain here but a few hours, but a lenient feeling towards the citizens led me into a parley with them as to compromise; and by prevarication on their part I was delayed until attacked, and then in self-defence was forced to intrench myself.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 561; The Harpers Ferry Rebellion, The New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 20, 1859, p. 1.
civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com
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10/18/2019 5:10:44 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 16 (reply #8.)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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10/18/2019 5:12:33 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 18 (reply #14).
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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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10/19/2019 6:21:50 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from October 18 (reply #15).
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
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10/19/2019 6:25:00 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
John Brown's Interview with Senator James M. Mason, Congressman Clement L Vallandigham, and Others, October 19, 1859 This is a long interview. So long I didnt feel like adding html formatting to the whole thing. But it is worth the read so here is the link.
civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com
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10/19/2019 6:27:23 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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