Posted on 06/02/2020 5:46:42 AM PDT by 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, 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
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The Japanese Embassadors 1-3
The Oldest Pauper on the Town 3
Editorials 3-4
The Lounger 4-6
Humors of the Day 6
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of ME, Republican Candidate for the Vice-Presidency 7
Japanese Whittlings 7-8
The Tornado at Cincinnati 9
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Part II, Hartrights Narrative Continued 9-12
Domestic Intelligence 12-13
Foreign News 13-14
The Africans of the Slave Bark Wildfire 15-18
The Uncommercial Traveler, No. IX, by Charles Dickens 19-20
On Board a Slaver 20-22
Bewitched 22-23
Captain Brand of the Schooner Centipede, by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XVII-XVIII 23-26
Quashy Quando 26-27
Our Visitors - 27
Hesler took a total of four portraits at this sitting. Lincoln's law partner William Herndon wrote of this picture: There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it."
NEWPORT, 3 June, 1860.
. . . Are you pleased that Mr. Everett has consented to take the nomination for the Vice Presidency? His letter reminds me of the advertisement of the retired Doctor whose sands of life have nearly run out. We have patriots left. In the view of the Union party it would seem that the Union itself were in a similar condition to the English gunboats, planks rotted, sham copper bolts not driven half through, and a general condition of unsoundness making them wholly unsafe in a sea.
Yet if the Vengeur should go down under the waves, Bell and Everett will be seen upon the upper deck waving their hands in a graceful oratorical way, and crying with melancholy voice, Vive la République....
SOURCE: Sara Norton and M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, Volume 1, p. 208-9
Here is a June 2, 1860 newspaper page from the Evansville Daily Journal of Evansville, Indiana. Note Lincoln’s responses to Douglas’s questions on the left side of the paper.
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1860.
We have just had a four hours speech from Sumner on the Barbarism of Slavery. In a literary point of view it was of course excellent. As a bitter, denunciatory oration, it could hardly be exceeded in point of style and finish. But, to me, many parts of it sounded harsh, vindictive, and slightly brutal. It is all true that slavery tends to barbarism, but Mr. Sumner furnishes no remedy for the evils he complains of. His speech has done the Republicans no good. Its effect has been to exasperate the Southern members, and render it utterly impossible for Mr. Sumner to exercise any influence here for the good of his State. Mr. C. F. Adams made a manly, statesmanly speech in the House of Representatives, four days ago, which was attentively listened to by everybody. He read it, as did Mr. Sumner his.
Mr. Seward is now here, and made a speech in Executive session the other day on the Mexican Treaty, that to my view showed more intellectual vigor than did his speech which you heard. His speech to which I refer was short, extemporaneous, and very able, converting almost the whole Senate to his views.
The nomination of Lincoln strikes the mass of the people with great favor. He is universally regarded as a scrupulously honest man, and a genuine man of the people.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes, p. 127-8
Excellent snark from Mr. Strong.
Some other news of the time in various newspapers”
June 3, 1860. Daily National Democrat, Marysville, California. Comments about Buchannan fighting against Douglass nomination and where the Democrat Partys strength lies.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038814/1860-06-03/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F03%2F1860&sort=&date2=06%2F03%2F1860&words=Democrat+Democratic+South&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=1&state=&rows=20&ortext=republican+democrat+south&proxtext=&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
June 4, 1860. Daily Exchange, Baltimore, Md. Indian attack in Nevada.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83009573/1860-06-04/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F04%2F1860&index=3&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Indians&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F04%2F1860&ortext=indians+savages&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
June 4, 1860. The Press and Tribune, Chicago. Slaves as property. Effect of Squatter Sovereignty.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014511/1860-06-04/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F04%2F1860&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Canada+Douglas+Slave+slave+slavery+Slavery+Slaves+slaves+squatter&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F04%2F1860&ortext=SQUATTER+Canada+slavery+slave+Douglas&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Continued from May 26 (reply #3)
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
My position is, that Congress has no power to interfere with the subject of slavery; that it is an institution local in its character and peculiar to the States where it exists, and no other power has the right to control it.
SOURCE: Frank Moore, Speeches of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, p. xvi
June 5, 1860. The Daily Democrat and News, Davenport, Iowa. Seward visiting Lincoln. Lincolns boots paid for by Congress when he was a congressman.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015737/1860-06-05/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F05%2F1860&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=BELL+Lincoln+Seward&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F05%2F1860&ortext=Lincoln+seward+bell&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
June 5, 1860. The Daily Exchange of Baltimore, MD. Column 3 about Baltimore Democrat Convention politics.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83009573/1860-06-05/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F05%2F1860&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Baltimor+Baltimore+BALTIMORE+Douglas+Lane&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F05%2F1860&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=douglas+lane+baltimore&dateFilterType=range&page=1
Hi.
No wonder he got impeached. Too bad the Senate took a pass.
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Two versions of what happened when some slaves that were the separate property of a wife were stolen by the husband in Tennessee and along with some jewelry and their child.
June 6, 1860. Cincinnati Daily Press, Cincinnati, Ohio: The Ohio governor would not return the thief of the slaves to Tennessee as slavery was not legal in Ohio. Columns 1 and 2.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028745/1860-06-06/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F06%2F1860&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Governor+Ohio+OHIO+slave+slaves+Tennessee+wife&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F06%2F1860&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=Tennessee+Ohio+governor+slave+wife&dateFilterType=range&page=1
June 6, 1860. The Weekly Mississippian, Jackson, Mississippi. Despite the Ohio governor’s refusal to extradite the thief, a US Deputy Marshall of West Tennessee succeeded in getting the slave thief arraigned in Cleveland for stealing the wifes jewelry. The wife got her child back, which her husband had also taken. Column 3.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024323/1860-06-06/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F06%2F1860&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=constitute+constituted+constitution+Constitution+constitutional+Dennison+Harris+justice+property+slave+slaves+SLAVES&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F06%2F1860&ortext=Constitution+Harris+property+slaves+justice+Dennison&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
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