Harper’s Weekly – September 29, 1860

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 29, 1860

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[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.

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

At Hoboken – 1
The Meeting – 1, 3
The Washington Aqueduct Bridge – 2-3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
The Landing in Calabria – 5-6
Jolly Anglers – 6-7
Elfie Meadows – 6-7
A Noctuary of Terror – 8-10
Domestic Intelligence – 10
Foreign News – 10-12
The Capture of Andre – 12-14
Drifting Away – 15-16
The Silver Florin – 16, 18
Our Map of Northern China – 17-18
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, by Charles Lever. Ch. IX – 18-20
The Great Invention – 20
Coming Home from Newport – 21
Seeing the Elephant – 21

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 28 (reply #14).

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

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Continued from September 8 (reply #3).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 2 (reply #5). I just searched in vain for the reason I picked October 1 for this excerpt when I prepped it back in August. It might have been because I wanted to get it in before the next excerpt, which is set for election day, November 6.

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 14 (reply #11). The John Jay mentioned in this entry would be John Clarkson Jay, grandson of the founder and, like Strong, a Columbia College trustee.

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

John Clarkson Jay Wikipedia page

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, October 1860

. . . It so happens that we have just had a visit from Edwin Morton, Gerrit Smith's private tutor, who went to Europe at the time of John Brown. “The wicked flea, whom no man pursueth,” Judge Russell satirically termed him: but he is a very cultivated and refined person and had that career among English literati which seems to be cheaply open to all young Yankees.

SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 115

civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from October 1 (reply #6).

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

[colorado tanker]

Italy will soon be reunited into one country.

Next up, Germany.

[colorado tanker]

Why have Americans historically gone ga-ga for British royalty?

We went to so much trouble getting out from under them!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I’ve seen in some concurrent stories that the Canadians were not nearly so gaga over HRH. Maybe because they aren’t yet out from under.

[colorado tanker]

IIRC, he made both the Irish and Scotch-Irish mad, which takes some doing. And, of course, the French are, well, French.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 18 (reply #4).

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 24 (reply #6).

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I don’t think I ever mentioned this, but I have a friend who works in the Harper’s Weekly art department, so I can get my hands of their illustrations prior to publication. That’s why I can share a picture of the parade George and Ellie and Annie and Cameron watched from upstairs at Tiffany’s. This picture won’t be ready for the October 6 Weekly. Look for it in the October 13 edition. Let’s keep this just between us, OK? I don’t want to get my friend in trouble with the Harper brothers.

Continued from October 2 (reply #8).

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

So George was interested enough in the Wide-Awakes spectacle to rent a 2nd story window over Tiffany & Co. where he and Mrs. Strong, Annie Leavenworth, and somebody named Cameron could watch the parade in comfort. Tiffany at that time was not at the location where Holly Golightly went for breakfast. That was on 5th Avenue at 57th St.

In 1860 Tiffany was located at 550 Broadway. Here’s a photo from the 1850s.

Here’s what it looks like today. (Click on the top picture on the side window.)

550 Broadway, NYC

[Tax-chick]

Wow, that was really cool. Poor George. I agree with him about the Royal Visit nonsense. This is America, dangit!

[Larry Lucido]

"Well, after all, she did get together with George Peppard. I mean, Fred."

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm