Harper’s Weekly – August 25, 1860

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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

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

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The Prince of Wales – 1-2
Editorials – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
The City of Quebec – 5-6
Violet – 5, 7
The Betrayed – 5, 7
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 5, 7-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10
The Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada – 11-12
The Old Player’s Story – 12-14
The Uncommercial Traveler in London Chambers, by Charles Dickens – 14-15
General Garibaldi and His Staff – 15-16
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, by Charles Lever. Ch. III-IV – 15, 17-18
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XLVIII-XLIX – 18-19
The Coming Man’s Presidential Career, a la Blondin – 20

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Continued from August 9 (reply #8).

With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

[Bernard]

Thanks for adding me to the ping list. This provides a real history lesson. I was struck by both the humor about love being portrayed as a child and the picture of Lincoln balancing on a high wire.

My wife and I took an Abraham Lincoln tour last September in Springfield Illinois and the strongest impression I carried with me was the political cartoons that blasted Lincoln for just about everything he did. So is the media today really that much different?

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Continued from August 16 (reply #8).

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

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Continued from August 26 (reply #3).

To John M. Read, Springfield, 27 August 1860

The miniature portrait of Hon. A. Lincoln, just painted by Mr. J.H. Brown, is strikingly faithful and correct. It is, in my opinion, as perfect a likeness of him as could be made.

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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Continued from August 27 (reply #5.)

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

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Count Adam Gurowski to James S. Pike, August 31, 1860

MORRISANIA, August 31, 1860.

MY DEAR, DEAR YANKEE: I got your letter. How can you be so tender-hearted and take seriously my silly abusing you? It was only to tease. Know it once for all, that you are among the few whom I never doubt. I hope ardently, too, that you will succeed for your brother.

Good-by, good-by.

GUROWSKI.

If you make speeches, put me in as Sumner did; will be a capital advertisement. I begin to be Yankee.

GUR.

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. 524

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