SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, August 27, 1860. Dear Sir: Your second note, inclosing the supposed speech of Mr. Dallas to Lord Brougham, is received. I have read the speech quite through, together with the real author’s introductory and closing remarks. I have also looked through the long preface of the book to-day. Both seem to be well [...]
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, August 15, 1860. My dear Sir: Yours of the 9th, inclosing the letter of Hon. John Minor Botts, was duly received. The latter is herewith returned according to your request. It contains one of the many assurances I receive from the South, that in no probable event will there be any very formidable [...]
August 14, 1860. My Fellow-citizens: I appear among you upon this occasion with no intention of making a speech. It has been my purpose since I have been placed in my present position to make no speeches. This assemblage having been drawn together at the place of my residence, it appeared to be the wish [...]
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, August 14., 1860. Dear Sir: Yours of the 10th is received, and for which I thank you. I would cheerfully answer your questions in regard to the fugitive-slave law were it not that I consider it would be both imprudent and contrary to the reasonable expectation of my friends for me to write [...]
Wilmington Journal, Wilmington, North Carolina, August 2, 1860 $10 REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 12th instant, a negro woman named ORRY. Said negro is about 5 feet high. She is a mulatto, with nearly straight hair, and about 27 years old. I will give the above reward for her delivery to me, or [...]
The New York Times, August 3, 1860 In the session of the Statistical Congress, held in London on the 18th ult., Lord Brougham called upon Judge Jervis to read the report from the United States. In doing so he said: “I exceedingly regret that the observations I made on the first day have been interpreted [...]
The New York Times, August 2, 1860 Leavenworth, Kansas, Wednesday, July 25, 1860 Our colored population has of late been in almost constant alarm, in consequence of several cases of kidnapping. The unfortunate victims have been seized at night by armed men, and secretly conveyed into Missouri, and there sold to slavetraders going South, or [...]
“The Railsplitter” Cincinnati, August 1, 1860. Lincoln campaign newspaper mast-head. (Reproduction) From Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Lincoln: The Image
The New York Times, August 1, 1860 Hon. Jefferson Davis wrote the following letter in reply to an invitation to address a Breckinridge ratification meeting at Vicksburgh, Mississippi: (To William B. Sloan) Washington, D.C., July 8, 1860. My Dear Sir—It gives me pleasure to acknowledge yours of the 2d inst., informing me that the Democrats [...]
Harp Week, Cartoons, 1860 Presidential Election, Stephen Douglas and the Democrats Cartoonist: Henry Louis Stephens Source: Vanity Fair Date: July 31, 1860, p. 43 Complete HarpWeek Explanation: Based on a Babylonian folk tale of two lovers who suffer a tragic end, the Roman poet Ovid retold the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe in his Metamorphoses. [...]
Springfield, Ills, July 29. 1860 Hon. James O. Putnam My dear Sir I have just read the speech you sent me, with your note of the 23rd. attached. I do not mean to flatter you when I say it is, indeed, a very excellent one. The manner in which you point out to Gov. Hunt [...]
The New York Times, July 27, 1860 The Leavenworth Times, 21st, says: “We are again called upon to record a case of kidnapping in this vicinity. Two free negro men have resided for the last six months in the South part of this county, with Mrs. SAMPSON, a colored woman, near the Delaware Mission. They [...]
The New York Times, July 27, 1860 The Iredell Express (N.C.) states that the case of SOLOMON HALL’s will occupied the Supreme Court of that county eight days, and was finally compromised after the Jury had retired. Mr. HALL had made a will leaving one hundred negroes and other property to his only child, a [...]
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The New York Times, July 25, 1860 The political contest is assuming a curious shape. The shattered condition of the Democratic Party has destroyed everything like an organized opposition to the Republicans, based upon principle, and converted the whole campaign into a desperate struggle not to get into power themselves, but to keep their opponents [...]
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, July 18, 186o. My dear Sir: It appears to me that you and I ought to be acquainted, and accordingly I write this as a sort of introduction of myself to you. You first entered the Senate during the single term I was a member of the House of Representatives, but I have [...]
Chicago, July 17th 1860 My Dear Sir, I send you by this day’s mail a copy of the Campaign Biography. You understand some of the difficulties under which it has been prepared. First, I labored two weeks after my return from Springfield upon the plan of making a pamphlet of 96 pages. Then Medill made [...]
Runaway slave broadside from Charles County, dated July 15, 1860. Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
Runaway slave broadside from Clay County, Missouri, dated July 14, 1860. Digital Commons—University of Southern Maine, Accessed 7-14-2020 Note: This broadside is public domain by virtue of being published and distributed 160 years ago. Any copyright would have lapsed long ago.
The following material contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the work is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Letter from an Old Acquaintance and Laboring Associate. The New York Times, July 11, 1860 DEAR SIR : The following item appeared in the Columbus Statesman a few [...]
New Orleans. Monday, July 9, 1860 The schooner Clotilde, with 124 Africans on board arrived in Mobile Bay to-day. A steamboat immediately took the negroes up the river. _____________ The short notice above, buried on page 5 of the July 11, 1860, issue of The New York Times, fails to convey the historical significance of [...]
Terre Haute July 6, 1860 My Dear Sir A few days before I left Washington I recd. your last letter & had, as you suggested, a brief interview with H. W. D: — it was, however, necessarily too brief to be very Satisfactory because neither he nor I had time to make it otherwise. It [...]
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, July 4, 1860. My dear Doctor: Your very agreeable letter of May 25th was received three days ago. We are just now receiving the first sprinkling of your Oregon election returns—not enough, I think, to indicate the result. We should be too happy if both Logan and Baker should triumph. Long before this [...]
New York July 2, 1860 My Dear Sir: I have never yet had influence with any Federal Administration, and may have no better with the next than with the last. I never wrote a letter to a President elect nor to a nominee of my party for that post. This is a government of lawyers, [...]
Douglas –“It’s all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won’t be able to reach the White House.” This July 1, 1860 Chicago Rail Splitter cartoon identifies the split in the Democratic Party as preventing Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, nominee of the Northern Democratic faction, from reaching the White House. “Squatter Sovereignty” was [...]