Posted on 05/19/2020 6:24:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The beard was a most excellent suggestion.
NEW YORK, May 21, 1861.
PIKE: Your Maine delegation was a poor affair; I thought you had been at work preparing it for the great struggle; yet I suspect you left all the work for me, as everybody seems to do. Massachusetts also was right in Weed's hands, contrary to all reasonable expectation. I cannot understand this. It was all we could do to hold Vermont by the most desperate exertions; and I at some times despaired of it. The rest of New England was pretty sound, but part of New Jersey was somehow inclined to sin against light and knowledge. If you had seen the Pennsylvania delegation, and known how much money Weed had in hand, you would not have believed we could do so well as we did. Give Curtin thanks for that. Ohio looked very bad, yet turned out well, and Virginia had been regularly sold out; but the seller couldn't deliver. “We had to rain red-hot bolts on them, however, to keep the majority from going for Seward, who got eight votes here as it was. Indiana was our right bower, and Missouri above praise. It was a fearful week, such as I hope and trust I shall never see repeated. I think your absence lost us several votes.
But the deed is done, and the country breathes more freely. We shall beat the enemy fifty thousand in this State — can't take off a single man. New England stands like a rock, and the North-west is all ablaze. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are our pieces de resistance, but we shall carry them. I am almost worn out.
HORACE GREELEY.
JAMES S. PIKE, Esq., Somewhere.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 519-20
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Hmmmmmmm.....
And how much does Photobucket contribute to the DNC?
Continued from 5/20 (reply #20.)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Forgot to ping the class for the last.
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Here is a classified ad from today’s NY Times that wouldn’t fit in my regular Times post.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
I spotted this item in today’s NY Times. According to George’s entry from May 11 (reply #27) the sermon was the grads’ idea .
BURLINGTON, May 24, '60.
How does the Chicago platform and nomination please the Puritans, — it shows pluck, and that, in an American, generally argues strength. Deliberately I prefer Lincoln to Seward, especially since the latter's Capital and Labor speech, that shivered a little in the wind's eye. Lincoln is emphatic on the irrepressible conflict, without if or but. Had Greeley's pet, Bates, been successful, this State, at least, would have gone for Douglas. Since Douglas's last rally in the Senate, he stands in a Samson Antagonistic attitude, which is attractive to the Northwest.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 187-8
What is the date of this issue?
This 18 September 1862.
I have many more.
I’m older now so it takes a bit.
I’m glad you give me a place to put them.
:^)
The map is from Harper’s Ferry. The lead story is about the battle at “Sharpsburgh,” MD.
March 1861. New President.
NEW YORK, May 25, 1860.
PIKE, MY FRIEND: Do you see how the heathen rage? How the whole weight of their wrath is poured out on my head? Will you tell me why Maine behaved so much worse at Chicago than any New-England State but Massachusetts? What meant that infernal vote from Massachusetts against us? I thought some of you Eastern folks would look to this. Just write me one letter to let me know what all this means.
HORACE GREELEY.
J. S. PIKE, Esq.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 520
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