Posted on 11/17/2020 6:05:31 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Friday, Nov. 16. The city is busily preparing for the jubilee of Tuesday next. We are expecting a great invasion of Wide-Awakes. Southern news excites little remark. Business remains lively in spite of the cataclysm. The Bank Commissioners arrived here to-day. They will probably call upon the Banks for additional securities on account of the depreciation of Southern stocks. There is a slight advance in Missouri. Mr. LINCOLN preserves his position of dignified silence. He considers that his sentiments are so clearly before the people, that no reasonable man can misapprehend them. He sees no necessity for further manifestations. Senator TRUMBULL is in town visiting his brother-in-law, Dr. JAYNE, whose majority of seven for the State Senate secures TRUMBULL's reelection. CREWS, Republican, is elected to the legislature from one of the most hopeless Southern districts. This is considered a good joke on Egypt. J.H.
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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 New York Times thread
The two links posted above are probably not working. There is a glitch at the site that is causing the problem.
The Disunion Movement: Our Dispatches and Correspondence from the South – 2-3
The Army in Texas: Interesting Summary of its recent Operations – 3-4
Editorial: The Question of Secession – 4
Editorial: The Fugitive Slave Law Again – 4-5
Editorial: Judge Douglas at the South – 5-6
Editorial: The Drift of the Current – 6
Editorial: Pacifying the South – 6
A Matter of Honor – 6
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