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Volume: 1866 Issue: 04/28 Page Range: 0269ad-0269ad OUTSIDE OF THE GALLERIES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DURING THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
p. 193 Harlan, like his father, regarded this institution with ambivalence verging on distaste. What is? (expressing my lack of ambivalence about Harlan’s)
p. 194. How did Harlan explain his 1864 support for the Democratic candidate to the presidency?
p. 195. What was Harlan’s paramount support for the cause of the Union?
p. 196. How did Harlan explain his military resignation within a month after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?
p. 197. For whom did Harlan have “real affection” – in the words of his lovely wife Mallie (probably she shared the same affection as her husband).
p. 198. Emancipating the family slaves could have been an outcome – as the author points out, but not for Harlan.
p. 199. For any of us a purse, a piece of furniture, clothes, or why not a car or a house would be a “most fortunate purchase,” but not for Mallie. What was she fondly remembered as a most fortunate purchase towards the end of the Civil War?
p. 200/6 Who is Palmer, and how do you explain that though on the side of progress, he ended up with a ruined military career, while Harlan’s star continued to rise?
p. 205 George Robertson, a former law professor and now a member of the judiciary held that Palmer’s actions having taken place before the Thirteenth Amendment remained illegal. Is that how constitutional amendments ought to be applied?
p. 207/210 What was remarkable about the Bristow/Harlan partnership?
p.211/13 What helped Harlan’s Republican conversion? What type of conversion was it, anyway? “equal before the law,” but “social equality can never exist between the two races in Kentucky.”