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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.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread.

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Beginning with the May 26 edition and continuing through the June 30 edition there was a problem with the original copies from which the pdf files were created. There was apparently water damage along the spines of the magazines so there are blank spots on the bottom corners of each page, which translates in to blank spots on every page or so of my recreated. I have omitted a few articles that have serious gaps in them. I have included the serials that some readers may be following even when there are gaps. The June 30 issue is the worst and the problem appears to end there. I will add a notice if it starts again.

The Lake at Yssbrooke – 1
The June Month – 2
Editorials – 2
Departure of Garibaldi from Genoa – 2-3
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 4-6
Domestic Intelligence – 6-7
The Uncommercial Traveler, No. X, by Charles Dickens – 7-8
The Palace at Palermo – 8
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XXV-XXVII – 8-10

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And no one tearing down statues...

The woman in white could be my MIL!

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Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Cabot Jackson Lowell, June 30, 1860

BURLINGTON, June 30, ’60.

It is interesting, is it not, to see Seward's “irrepressible conflict” so speedily illustrated at Baltimore. The quadrangular fight may result in the election of the worst man of the eight, General Lane of Oregon; but I hope that Lincoln will make a good enough run to prevent the choice going to the House or Senate. The Republican party is now so old that its followers have fallen into line, — and many will now vote for the candidate who four years ago would have gone for Douglas, had he stood in his present attitude towards the South. The wisdom in selecting Lincoln is now apparent, — a man from any other section of the country would have stood no chance in the Northwest against Douglas, whose personal popularity is immense.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 190-1

civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com

Charles Russell Lowell Wikipedia page

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Continued from June 1 (reply #22).

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Continued from June 19 (reply #14).

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Continued from June 27 (reply #10).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas