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Category Archives: American Society
arms control
Back on April 9th Seven Score and Ten published an interesting article by Frederick Douglass that encouraged black men to enlist in the Union army. Here’s part of it. From the Douglass’ Monthly April 1863: WHY SHOULD A COLORED MAN … Continue reading
President’s Say
From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six: TO ALEXANDER REED. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 22, 1863. REV. ALEXANDER REED. MY DEAR SIR:—Your note, by which you, as General Superintendent of the United States Christian Commission, invite me … Continue reading
Rule, Britannia! rule the waves
The following Southern editorial questions why Great Britain was remaining neutral during the American Civil War because, if the American states had not broken up, the United States would have eventually overtaken Britain as the world’s leading maritime power. The … Continue reading
Taxing the Frogs
From The New-York Times January 22, 1863: THE INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT. We have every reason to congratulate the country on the operation post and prospective of the Internal Revenue Bureau. In another column we publish Mr. Commissioner BOUTWELL’S first official … Continue reading
Constitutional Theorizing
If States’ Rights are obsolete, why can’t we make New England one state? From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January 14, 1863: New England’s rights Considered — her Undue preponderance Objected to. A New York paper, taking up a subject that … Continue reading
Bull Hamlin?
Yesterday morning I was reading a review of Robert Caro’s latest book on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is said to have described LBJ’s descent from Senate Majority Leader to the sideline job of vice-president as … Continue reading
“Teeth extracted by Electricity, without pain.”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch May 12, 1862: Artificial Teeth–the Cheoplastic and Vulcanite Process. –G. W. Jones, Dentist, having the right for the above mode of making Teeth, and being satisfied of its absolute superiority over all other methods, can … Continue reading
Not an Abolitionist in the American Sense
A letter to Britain 150 years ago this week. To Sir Charles Lyell. Boston, February 11, 1862 MY DEAR LYELL,-No doubt, I ought to have written to you before. But I have had no heart to write to my friends … Continue reading
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Enveloping Responsibilty
Can’t we just let the professional politicians worry about it? _________________________________________________ The suspense was driving me crazy
St. Louis Blues v. Grays
Isn’t the telegraph great?. People in New York can read news from St. Louis as quickly as from Gotham itself. Missouri, a border state, is more divided than other states. The Union Provost-Marshall General wants to monitor newspapers throughout the … Continue reading
