THE CHICAGO CONVENTION; Visit to Gov. Seward; Action of the Convention; Visit to Mr. Lincoln (5/24/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/24/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

AUBURN, Tuesday, May 22, 1860. I have turned aside from my direct route homeward, in order pay a visit of respect and friendship to Gov. SEWARD. I found him as busily and as happily engaged in directing the improvements of his delightful country residence, as if no such incidents as treachery and disappointment ever disturbed the tenor of political life. His barns and outhouses, you remember, were burned a few weeks since. His special errand at home, just now, is to arrange for rebuilding them: -- when his plans have been made for this work, he will return to Washington, -- probably early next week, -- and resume his seat in the Senate. He will serve out the remainder of his term in that body, but will not, in any event or under any circumstances, be a candidate for reelection.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

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The Chicago Convention – 2-3
Columbia College Law School: Commencement Exercises at the Hall of the Historical Society – 3
The Great Tornado - 3

[Louis Foxwell]

Curious only Dem govs followed the president’s guidelines, no Repub govs. Hmmmm!

[BroJoeK]

It says here Seward regards his public life as definitely closed, but I suspect we might yet hear more from him.

[BroJoeK]

The Great Tornado on the Ohio River near Cincinnati reminds us that extreme weather was not invented with "global warming".
Indeed, one graph I found shows average tornados declining: