And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig
And just make up some stuff because jonerik cups to us from West Virginia and hes done some fantastic scholarship for us at the blog about those early months and the early year of the war in 1861, which really set the stage for what happens in 1861 and onward. A lot of people forget about how formative the action in West Virginia was and hes in there with his sleeves rolled up. Really working the material in a way that ive been impressed with. But now im going to read this really nice introduction. From mount pleasant, ohio. He studied history at Bethany College and received a masters of library and Information Science at kent state university. Where he focused his studies on archives and preservation. He started his career in the preservation at the library of copping and later worked for a congress and later worked for a pittsburghbased preservation firm, where he developed Preservation Strategies for libraries, archives and museums. In 2012 he was named director of archives and reco
This has been so much fun and everybody give yourselves around applause. You are all bill of rights rock stars so well you good job. Thank you so much. Thank you for hosting trivia game, madison. I feel like i did pretty i love it. It a good game. All right. Well see you all time by good afternoon, ladies. Gentlemen, welcome to historic St Johns Church, a National Historic landmark and welcome to our liberty or death reenactment. We have been producing reenactments here since the 1970s, and we are delighted that you have chosen to spend part of your day with us today as reverend wilmer mentioned, my name is steven wilson. I serve as the executive director for the St Johns Church foundation. We are a50 1 to 3 Nonprofit Organization that has been around since 1938. Weve been a minute our mission is twofold. It is education. It is Historic Preservation. We tell the story of the Second Virginia Convention and the importance of Patrick Henry. We do this through our Educational Programs like
Do it of the. All right, lets start with this very important conversation going on in the United States right now. In fact, it couldnt possibly be any more important. My gosh, think about this. Its about whether the people of the United States that involves me and maybe some of you are watching right now. Want to start a war with restaurant seriously, whether you want, do you want to start a war with russia . Do you really want to start a war with russia . I wont say that that would be possibly the beginning of world war 3. But if youre thinking about that, you probably might be right or at least asking a good question to yourself. Heres, heres the deal, and heres why im asking the question im posing all of this ukraine has recently been bombing and killing civilians in a russian border city that its, thats named belgrade. You probably dont know, but if you happen to live in the United States, because the media here doesnt report that. But because of that, russia has tried to create or