Harper’s Weekly – February 16, 1861

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 16, 1861

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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: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:homerjsimpson/index?tab=articles 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

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts

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Jan the Hawker – 1
Editorials – 1, 3
Saint Valentine Day – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Fort Sumter – 5-7
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XVIII – 6, 8-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10-11
Paris Fashions for February – 12
“Bring Me a Light”-A Ghost Story – 13-16
A Valentine Romance of ye Olden Time – 17-18
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland – 19
Joseph Holt, Secretary of War – 19-21
The New Orleans Customhouse, Mint, Etc. – 20-21
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, By Charles Lever, Ch XXXVII – 21-22
Snake Stories – 22-23
Serious Accident – 23

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Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 9 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#3

The next one is continued from February 13 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#23

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued from February 11 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#16

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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James A. Garfield to Burke A. Hinsdale
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/james-garfield-to-burke-hinsdale_18.html

C. A. to William Still
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/c-to-william-still-february-16-1861.html

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to John Lothrop Motley
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/dr-oliver-wendell-holmes-to-john.html

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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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"Editorials – 1, 3
COTTON SUPPLY"

Again we see the all-important numbers regarding international cotton supplies & demands.
The numbers clearly show that the US maintained its 80% share of international cotton exports by increasing production more than 50% in the past seven years.

It also shows there are many other potential sources for cotton, should civil war restrict US exports.
This would seem to be a strong argument for keeping peaceful relations, but it appears likely that when the time comes Confederate leaders will be more moved by "other considerations".

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The Democrats of 1860, like the Democrats of today, were economic illiterates.

Starting the Civil War did not mean the UK would send troops to preserve its cotton supplies. It meant that the price of cotton worldwide would skyrocket. And almost overnight, the British Empire, including Egypt, would replace the supply from the American South. Not only did they commit political suicide, but economic suicide. It's the law of supply and demand that Democrats, including Nobel laureates, can't seem to understand.

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Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 12 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#18

The next one is out of sequence. Not a continuation.

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume One, Fort Sumter to Perryville

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Continued from February 11 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#13

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Continued from February 16 (reply #4).

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_15.html

Jefferson Davis’ 1st Inaugural Address (as President of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_15.html

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Big posting day, as Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.

Two from Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury, reply #9
Shelby Foote, #10
David Donald's Lincoln, #11
Two whistle stop speeches by Lincoln, #12
William Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American, #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Davis's inauguration speech and a letter from Maj. Thomas Jackson to Mrs. Jackson, #15

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Continued from February 16 (reply #9).

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued from February 18 (reply #13).

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Mary Chesnut’s Diary, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_16.html