THE CHICAGO CONVENTION; ASSEMBLING THE DELEGATES; Demonstrations of Popular Enthusiasm (5/15/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/15/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHICAGO, Monday, May 14. The passengers by the Southern Lake Shore line left Buffalo this morning, and reached Chicago at 9 o'clock this evening. Great enthusiasm was exhibited all along the route; at every point crowds of people thronged the depots. Bands of music, the booming of cannon, and numberless cheers, testified the great interest felt by the masses touching the objects of the Convention.

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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.
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