WESTERN POLITICS: Bell-Everett in Ohio-Western Virginia-The Coming Revolution; Editorial-The Democrats on Slave Property (8/29/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/29/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Bell-Everett in Ohio -- Western Virginia -- The Coming Revolution -- Vote of Virginia -- Missouri. THE BEECHES, August, 1860. We have had a Bell-Everett State Conven tion in Ohio, and it is worth notice only so far as to say, that it was very small and very unimportant. In fact, this party is now only the fraction of a fragment -- the remnant of a tribe that is lost; but, like the poor Indian, -- still linger round the graves of their ancestors. FILLMORE had 28,000 votes in this State, and BELL may have 10,000, but, in no case enough to influence, even indirectly, the result. The prominent idea of these gentlemen now seems to be, to defeat Judge BRINKERHOFF -- an honest, upright, fearless Judge of the Supreme Court. BRINKERHOFF is rather fervid in his Anti-Slavery sentiment, and may have given rather ultra opinions in the great case of Cotton vs. Freedom. But it seems to me this is hardly a crime, and certainly not enough to feed a political party upon. The Bell-Everetts here are not only an old gentleman's party, but old gentlemen who don't read the papers, and never heard of the great Meteor. But, enough: Let them be treated with respect, while we pass on to livelier topics. I said in my last that there was a revolution going on in Virginia; and asked, is it impossible for Virginia to vote for BELL? Since that you have had a clear and able article of your own in the TIMES, on that subject, which I read with great interest. But you have only gone part of the way. I will pursue it a little further.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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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 Political Campaign: Western Politics; Political Affairs in Virginia; Politics in Michigan – 2-3
Editorial: The Democrats on Slave Property – 3-4
Editorial: A Needless Panic – 4
Kidnappers at Work in Chicago – 4
The War Upon the Indians – 4
Police Reports – 4

[bert]

One wonders........ did they set that type by hand?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

One wonders........ did they set that type by hand?

I imagine they did. It would have been painstaking work, but they'd had 400 years since Gutenberg first came up with the idea in which to improve their techniques, so a number of efficiencies were surely in use.

[jjotto]

Well, yes, kinda. Type-setting by hand was common well into the 1970s, at least. Called ‘hot metal’ or ‘linotype’, where whole lines of text are cast in metal. One of my first jobs. Civil War era was probably letter by letter.

[bert]

So, a line of type bavk then.

It must have been eye destroying editing