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April 1857

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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 Free Republic University, Department of History presentsBleeding 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. 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 March 1857 thread



To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...



Monthly Record of Current Events *  16-19

Editors Drawer  20-26

The Inauguration  27-28

Fashions for February  29-30 The Holy City  1-15Monthly Record of Current Events *  16-19Editors Drawer  20-26The Inauguration  27-28Fashions for February  29-30 * The new tariff bill was adopted as a compromise between the separate bills prepared by the House and the Senate respectively. Three House members were found guilty of corrupt practices and submitted their resignations. The inauguration of President Buchanan is described. In his inaugural address he covered the question of slavery in the territories and the danger of the dissolution of the Union. The President next refers to the unexampled fact that the Government is embarrassed by a revenue largely exceeding its wants . . . The President argues for construction of a military [rail]road to the Pacific. The new Cabinet members are named. A report on the Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case is presented, as is a report on events in Kansas. In GREAT BRITAIN fallout from the Crimean war continues in Parliament. Earl of Clarendon vs. Earl Grey, Mr. Disraeli vs. Lord Palmerston. Parliament also debated whether the charter of the Hudson Bay Company should be renewed. News of FRANCE and THE EAST concludes this section.



by 2 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Very interesting! Thanks for the post, Homer!



To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

Continued from March 6 (reply #21). Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics" (1978)



by 4 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson



Slightly off topic but I thought this was pretty interesting when it came out: You Dont See Dred Scott Cited Approvingly Everyday

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Very interesting article about Jerusalem. Travel books by the author, William Cowper Prime, are out in reprint editions. I’ve just started looking to see if any are affordable.



by 6 posted onby Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Sheik Houssein Ibn-Egid the great sheik of HALLOWEEN???



To: Homer_J_Simpson

From page 20: ON THE SEASONS. There is four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. They are all pleasant. Some people may like Spring best; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. The End.



by 8 posted onby Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)

To: Tax-chick; henkster

That may partially explain why the distinguished gentleman gave up educating boys as a vocation and took to the law instead.



by 9 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Maybe the young author had good penmanship, at least.



by 10 posted onby Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)

To: Homer_J_Simpson

The first article about the Holy City was interesting. Some comments. guarded the Wady Mousa and exacted tribute form all who visited Petra Petra is very likely the hiding place of the remnant of Israel who escape the soon-coming satanic Islamic World Ruler ("the beast") as spoken of in the Books of Matthew and Revelation in the Bible. The Wady Mousa and the "Treasury" of Petra have been featured in movies including "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". The Wady Musa is an amazingly narrow entrance and the only way into Petra. The Bible indicates that when the forces of this crazed satanic "beast" tries to follow the Jews to kill them, this narrow entrance will somehow be made inaccessible (Rev 12:14-16).



To: Homer_J_Simpson

Am I reading this right, that the other Justices including Curtis did not have access to a printed copy of the majority opinion? How could they concur or dissent without a printed copy of the opinion? I think these days all the Justices give all the others their rough draft opinions. It would seem that if someone changed their opinion significantly, they would also give a printed copy to the pothers.



To: Jim 0216

Am I reading this right, that the other Justices including Curtis did not have access to a printed copy of the majority opinion? It reads to me like the associates knew substantially what was in the original opinion as Taney read it March 6 but did not have the complete text. And of course they had no way of knowing how he was revising it. Here's part of my March 6 excerpt from Fehrenbacher: . . . Taney did not finish the work [on his opinion] to his own satisfaction by March 6. The opinion that he delivered on that date would have to be revised before it went into the record.



by 13 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson; henkster

If Taney had a hard time dealing with Curtis’ dissent it would have been interesting to see what he would have done on the receiving end of a Scalia dissent.



To: Homer_J_Simpson

I spent last weekend in Kansas City and discovered the Steamboat Arabia museum. The Arabia was a packet paddle-wheeler that for a time ran from Kansas City to Sioux City, Iowa on the Missouri River. In 1856 it hit a snag and sank in the River. All people made it off but the cargo was lost in the muck. Eventually, the Missouri changed course, leaving the Arabia buried under the water table in a farmer's field. The anoxic environment preserved everything perfectly except clothing. It is absolutely amazing to see the collection. It's a time capsule into middle class life in 1856 in Kansas and Missouri, at least in the river towns and nearby regions. Sets of china and tableware look like they were bought yesterday. They have thousands of sulfur headed matches that supposedly didn't exist in 1856. The have rubber combs that experts thought hadn't been invented yet. It was definitely not life in a sod cabin. It's pretty amazing when you consider Kansas and Nebraska only opened for settlement in 1854. The only "dry good" that wasn't in ample supply was guns. According to the guide the master was an abolitionist and had been caught trying to run guns to Lawrence. He was told if he was caught again he would face a necktie party.



To: colorado tanker

That is great stuff. Thanks for taking the class on a virtual field trip.



by 16 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

The tableware and many other manufactured items were made in England. The tableware was made by John Wedge Wood of Staffordshire. According to the guide, John Wood changed his middle name to Wedge to horn in on his more famous namesake, but I haven't found a source to confirm it. There was a lot of imported stuff in an area the folks back East thought of as the rough and ready frontier.



To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

Continued from November 4, 1856 (reply #23). (Letter from Ellen Sherman to her mother referenced in footnotes 8 and 10 written on this date in 1857.) 1 2 James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life



by 18 posted onby Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Well this should provoke some replies... Excellent book by the way.



To: Jim 0216

It’s a really cool historic site. My mother and her globe-trotting old ladies have been there.



by 20 posted onby Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)

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