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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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Charles Dickens’s New Serial – 1
Senator Hunter of Virginia – 1-4
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Humors of the Day – 7
General Amos Pillsbury – 8-10
Beauties of the Franking Privilege – 10
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Miss Halcombe’s Narrative Continued – 10-13
Dernier Resort – 13
Only a Woman’s Story – 13-14
Domestic Intelligence – 14-16
Foreign News – 16
The Gale of February Tenth in New York Bay – 17, 19
Encampment of the Argentine Troops on the Tigre – 18-19
The Uncommercial Traveler. No III. By Charles Dickens – 19-21
Delights of Housekeeping – 19
White Cats – 21-22
The Snow is Coming Down – 22
The Story of the Good Ship “Ann” – 22-23
The New Partner, or “Clingham & Co., Bankers, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow Chapter IX – 23-25
The Steamer “Peytona” – 25-26
The Mistress of the Parsonage, by Ela Rodman, Part III continued – 25-28

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from March 6 (reply #14).

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

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How is there a picture of the April session of the Democrat National Convention when we are still in March?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The last excerpt from this book was on March 5 (reply #10). This excerpt is out of sequence, however. I put it on this date as being two weeks after the Opposition Convention in Jefferson City, or the date Bates was endorsed by the Missouri Republican state convention.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from March 12 (reply #5). I think this George and Ellie saw the NY Philharmonic rehearse Beethoven’s ninth symphony.

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from February 29 (reply #16). On this date William “Seward relayed the message to his mentor,” Thurlow Weed, (paragraph 5) that Simon Cameron wanted to meet with Weed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Abraham Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay, March 16, 1860

Springfield, Ills– Mar–16, 1860

Dear Delahay–

I have just returned from the East. Before leaving, I received your letter of Feb. 6; and on my return I find those of the 17th. & 19th. with Genl. Lane's note inclosed in one of them.

I sincerely wish you could be elected one of the first Senators for Kansas; but how to help you I do not know. If it were permissable for me to interfere, I am not personally acquainted with a single member of your Legislature. If my known friendship for you could be of any advantage, that friendship was abundantly manifested by me last December while in Kansas. If any member had written me, as you say some have Trumbull, I would very readily answer him. I shall write Trumbull on the subject at this sitting.

I understood, while in Kansas, that the State Legislature will not meet until the State is admitted. Was that the right understanding?

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis– first, because, in the main, it is wrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable. With me, as with yourself, this long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. I now distinctly say this. If you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish one hundred dollars to bear the expences of the trip.

Present my respects to Genl. Lane; and say to him, I shall be pleased to hear from him at any time.

Your friend, as ever

A. LINCOLN.

P.S. I have not yet taken the newspaper slip to the Journal. I shall do that to-morrow; and then send you the paper as requested.

A. L.

SOURCE: Roy P. Basler, Editor, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

, Vol. 4, p. 31-2

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Mark W. Delahay Wikipedia page

Senator Charles Sumner to George L. Stearns, March 16, 1860

Here are the wages of your testimony!

I am obliged for your suggestion. Have faith. I believe when in active health, I have never done less than was expected of me. I hope not to fall short hereafter.

I have twice visited Hyatt in jail. He is serene and tranquil, determined to stay there at least five years, if before then he is not discharged.

Half of our Republicans need conversion to first principles. Lawyers are strong in defending a point, already occupied. They will find any required number of reasons for their cause. But they are not leaders where great principles are in question. Ask Mr. Sewall if I am not right.

SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 214

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Thaddeus Hyatt Wikipedia page