Daily Report

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Birthdays

August Belmont

47 years old today

Robert Bullock

32 years old today

William Downey

35 years old today

Clinton Bowen Fisk

32 years old today

Otis Gibson

34 years old today

Lewis Winans Ross

48 years old today

Henry Timrod

60 years old today

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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	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
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper	Personal Liberty Laws	12/08/1860
Newspaper	New York Herald, “Vermont Negroes and Wool,” December 8, 1860	12/08/1860
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Tribune, "The Prime Cause," December 8, 1860	12/08/1860