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October 13 / Talking points

p. 131/2: Who, when, and why did he say: “God grant I may never be blind”?

p.133/34: Who was Gorham? Who were the Crosswhites? Why did Gorham say (and to whom): “Charles T. Gorham, write it in capital letters.”

p. 135/36: What was H.B. Brown history with the Republican Party? How was his professional career’s beginning indebted to politics?

https://www.loc.gov/resource/lprbscsm.scsm0716/

p. 137/8 What was H.B. Brown’s view of Wigwam?

A sketch from Harpers' Weekly of the Wigwam interior during the  1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, IL. (Creative Commons)
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/07/14/gop-convention-1860-abe-lincoln

p. 139/40 What precedent-setting lawsuit got H.B. Brown’s attention?

p. 140/1 What were the facts in Day v. Owen?

p. 141: What notable difference did the author mention between H.B. Brown and Day?

p.142. Where did Day obtain his college education? Why? What was his role in the NNC?

p.143: What was the consequence of an all-Republican Michigan Supreme Court Bench on Day’s case?

p. 144: Why did H.B. Brown thanked the Lord in his mercy on his last journal entry for 1861?

p. 145/6: Why was H.B. Brown excited that Sumter/Sumpter was attacked the very next morning after his appointment as Deputy U.S. Marshal?

p. 147: What was H.B. Brown obliged to advocate? What was the “Oh!” for?

p. 148: What was H.B.B’s job in 1862?

p. 149: What did H.B.B do in 1863? What about 1864?

p. 150 Whose war ended for the price of $850?