Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Posted on 10/20/2020 5:35:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Continued from October 16 (reply #11).
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
GREENVILLE, S. C., Oct. 25, 1860: We now number thirty-one students, adding one more from Mississippi to a statement which will probably appear in the “Herald” of to-day. We feel encouraged by the increase, and by the general character of the students, and the spirit they manifest. My class in New Testament Greek numbers sixteen. They are nearly all graduates of colleges and universities, but the standard of graduation, and often of instruction, is deplorably low in most of the institutions of the land, and I find it necessary to spend a good part of the session in teaching Greek in general, classic Greek, which they ought to have learned at college. But I can better afford to do this since they go over a large portion of the New Testament in the English class. The difference in other theological seminaries is, not that they have students better prepared, but that they make little or no effort to remedy the evil. . . I have two of last year's students reading, once a week, some selections from the Greek Fathers; and Brother Boyce is doing something similar this year, with some of the Latin Fathers. This would be impracticable in a seminary where there was a curriculum, the same for all. . .
I am glad to say that my health continues about as good as in September. If I can be careful still, I trust I shall be able to go steadily through the session. But it is not easy to be careful.
Please remember me most respectfully to your honored grandmother, to your uncle, and all the family. Mr. Barbour may be interested in the opinion (though of course he is better posted on the whole subject than I am) which I formed upon the statements of gentlemen here, that in the event of Lincoln's election, South Carolina will certainly not secede alone, but will gladly join any one other State, and that her secession leaders will move heaven and earth to aid their sympathizers in Alabama and Virginia with the hope of such a result. Very many people here are as much opposed to a dissolution of the Union as you or I, but there can be little doubt that a majority of the voters in the State would be in favor of seceding with any other State.
Two or three books that I think would please you are, “Five Sermons on St. Paul,” by A. Monod (from the French); “Memoir of Kingman Nott”; “Angus' Bible Handbook.” All small volumes.
SOURCE: Archibald Thomas Robertson, Life and Letters of John Albert Broadus, p. 176-177
Correction: Thurlow Weed wrote the letter to Seward in reply #21 above, not Lincoln.
The last time New York voted Republican was for Ronald Reagan against Walter Mondale, in 1984.
Compared to Biden, Mondale was a powerful candidate, but the media then was, possibly, not as corrupt as today.
I’m really anticipating election day. I’m fairly confident Trump will win, but possibilities abound that the win could be of historic proportions.
For one thing, I'd say Democrats are as treasonous today as they were in 1860, though this time they've allied with Chinese & other foreign money sources investing $billions to corrupt the media, academia, entertainment, etc.
Today the focus of their war on the USA is not to unite certain states against us, but to separate out whole cultures against the very idea of a United States -- i.e., 1619 project.
Public polls still seem to say that's working, though both intuition and 2016 argue otherwise.
We'll see...
I would only notice that in both 1972 and 1984, unlike in 1860, Democrats retained their hold on the US House of Representatives and so remained successful in thwarting the Republican agenda.
If Republicans carry both Houses of Congress, the Presidency and now the Supreme Court, we may well see responses from Democrats more than a little reminiscent of 1860 & after.
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
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