Editorials: The Presidential Election; Negroes Rescued from Slavers-Sending them back to Africa (6/26/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 6/26/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. The Presidential canvass has at last fairly opened. The several political parties have taken their ground, all the candidates are in the field, and it is not difficult to foresee the result. The Republican ticket is morally certain to be elected. Strong in the public sentiment of the Free States, the Republican Party derives an immense advantage from the disruption and utter demoralization of its opponents.

[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

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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Editorial: The Presidential Election – 2
Editorial: Negroes Rescued from Slavers-Sending them back to Africa – 2-3
Arrival of the Overland Mail and the Pony Express: Important Advices from Japan; The Indian Troubles in Carson Valley – 3-4
Further from Pike’s Peak – 4

[RideForever]

Change the title to -

Juneteenth - The Day Republicans Freed the Democrats’ Slaves

... and you will have a winner

[M Kehoe]

Hi Teach.

Limbaugh just compared president Trump to president Lincoln circa 1861. Regarding the Southern states “behavior.”

Maybe a two minute history lesson.

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I heard that.

A couple years ago I just rolled my eyes when Trumpsters made their Trump-Lincoln comparisons. Not any more. I see parallels all over. Just the other day I posted a Doris Kearns Goodwin excerpt where she said that Lincoln's enemies attacked not just his intellect but his appearance. "Gawky man bad," so to speak. I have also learned that judging Trump's intellect by the limited vocabulary he displays in public and his infamous tweets is a big mistake. He accomplished a hell of a lot of conservative objectives while having half his brain tied behind his back by the Russia hoax, the Ukraine hoax-impeachment, and now the Kung Flu. A dummy wouldn't be capable of that.