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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Cotton Piled Up from Memphis to Vicksburg
In 1860 the presidential election was held on November 6th. One of the Headlines from The New-York Times. that day sure sounded ominous: Immediate Secession Recommended by the Governor of South Carolina. The Times carried a lot of news from … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, The election of 1860, Uncategorized
Tagged 1860 Election, cotton, secession
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Diogenes Campaigns for Lincoln?
The More things Change … We have mentioned that on November 2, 1860 there was a huge Republican rally in New York City. William H. Seward was the main speaker. The Wide Awakes were understandably a big part of the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, The election of 1860
Tagged Wide-Awakes, William H. Seward
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800 Irish Laborers Disappear!
There is an interesting post at Seven Score and Ten about possible fraud in Louisiana during the 1860 presidential election. The fire-eating “Yanceyites” were apparently trying to to fake-out supporters of Bell, the candidate of the Constitutional Union party. Similar … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860 Election, election fraud
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Seward Refuses Obeisance to King Cotton
William H. Seward, a Republican U.S. senator from New York, was hitting the campaign trail hard during the week before the presidential election of 1860. On October 30th he spoke before 15,000 people in Lyons, New York, a small town … Continue reading
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Tagged cotton, King Cotton, Little Giants, William H. Seward
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Minute Men Proselytize Memphis
I’ve been learning how political groups were formed during the highly contentious election of 1860. Wide-Awakes for Lincoln; Little Giants for Douglas. Recently I posted an excerpt from The New-York Times. that described South Carolina’s Minute Men, who organized to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Cockades, Dixie, Memphis, Minute Men, secession
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