Lincoln claims he cannot raise $10,000 for campaign even to save himself from "fate of John Brown"

Abraham Lincoln informed a correspondent named E. Stafford who had apparently proposed some kind of campaign spending scheme that the idea was "an impossibility." "I could not raise ten thousand dollars if it would save me from the fate of John Brown," wrote Lincoln. (By Matthew Pinsker)
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Women Shoemakers Striking in Lynn, Massachusetts

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One of the largest and most significant antebellum labor strikes began in Lynn, Massachusetts on February 22, 1860 when male shoemakers took to the streets.  Women machine stitchers and homeworkers soon joined the work stoppage and the confrontation gained national attention.  Abraham Lincoln, on a speaking tour of New England, commented: "I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails in New England under which laborers can strike when they want to, where they are not obliged to labor whether you pay them or not.

First Japanese warship arrives in San Francisco Bay

The training vessel Kanrin Maru appeared in San Francisco Bay, the first Japanese warship to arrive in the U.S., accompanied by American naval officers John Brooke and Edward Kern. The arrival of the U.S.S. Powhatan, carrying the first diplomatic mission to the United States from Japan, followed on March 29, 1860. (By Matthew Pinsker)
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John James Abert

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