{"id":593,"date":"2012-08-06T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=593"},"modified":"2012-08-06T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:41:46","slug":"abraham-lincoln-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/06\/abraham-lincoln-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1859 Abraham Lincoln visited Kansas from November 30th through December 5th . He had been invited by a distant\u00a0relative\u00a0Mrs. Mark W.Delahay. Her husband <a title=\"Mark Delahey\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.kshs.org\/p\/cool-things-delahay-portraits\/10152\">Mark\u00a0Delahay <\/a>had a personal friendship with Abraham Lincoln originating with their mutual cause in establishing the Republican Party.In 1859, Delahay sought the Republican nomination for a United States Senate seat for Kansas.This is history that Kansas students seem to really enjoy and it gives them a sense that our state was an important part of US history especially from the 1850&#8217;s and throughout the time period of the Civil war. I tell them the towns he visited and what he did and said while he was there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln crossed the Missouri river from St. Joseph Missouri and arrived in Elwood, Kansas delivering his first Kansas speech November 30,1859<\/li>\n<li>Traveled to Troy on a cold morning gave a 2 hour speech and that same day traveled ten miles to Doniphan and spoke again December 1,1859<\/li>\n<li>Friday morning December 2, 1859 travels to Atchinson gives a 2 hour speech and learns that John Brown was hung for treason.<\/li>\n<li>Travels to his final Kansas destination in Leavenworth and stays with the Delahay family whom he was a distant relative to.<\/li>\n<li>Much of his Cooper Union Speech was used while in Kansas . The future President thought Kansas would be a good testing ground for his famous New York City speech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have attempted to create a <a title=\"Google Map\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=213631885474095805116.0004c693c5ae9d44398e4&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=39.740986,-94.844284&amp;spn=0.158133,0.220757\">Google Map<\/a> to show you where Abraham Lincoln\u00a0traveled\u00a0while in the state of Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1859 Abraham Lincoln visited Kansas from November 30th through December 5th . He had been invited by a distant\u00a0relative\u00a0Mrs. Mark W.Delahay. Her husband Mark\u00a0Delahay had a personal friendship with Abraham Lincoln originating with their mutual cause in establishing the Republican Party.In 1859, Delahay sought the Republican nomination for a United States Senate seat for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,11239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}