Daily Report

Monday, May 25, 1857

Birthdays

Thomas Green Bethune, photograph, detail

Thomas Green Bethune

8 years old today

Ralph Waldo Emerson, detail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

54 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

William M. Lemen

23 years old today

Henry Hopkins Sibley, detail

Henry Hopkins Sibley

41 years old today

Jesse Torrey, Jr., detail

Jesse Torrey Jr.

70 years old today

Bennett Henderson Young, detail

Bennett Henderson Young

14 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “A Negro-Whipping Resulting in a White Man's Murder,” May 25, 1857	05/25/1857
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Fate and the Folly of Compromises," May 25, 1857	05/25/1857