Posted on 05/01/2017 5:09:36 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Taney was such a jerk! He imagined that he was saving the country from the abolitionists, but he was actually bringing on secession and war.
Looks like a cross between FDR and Bill Clinton
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
May 17, SUNDAY. Bradish sent for Mr. Ruggles yesterday afternoon to say how much he regretted to find that he was considered mainly instrumental in getting up the late attack on Trinity Church. He deplored and disapproved it, and was disgusted; his motion was a remedy through the courts; the members of the vestry were his most valued friends, and so on. This looks a little uncandid. His name has been conspicuous from first to last. Probably he was willing to let it be conspicuous while it seemed to be on the winning side, and now that reaction has set in pretty strongly, remembers all at once that he didn’t do a great deal of the work after all.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
My goodness, do you remember the commercial where the poor kid "feels like a fish without water"?
That's how I feel when Free Republic is down.
Now Wide Awake again!!
Columbia College fails to hire J. Willard Gibbs who will become the greatest American scientist of the nineteenth century.
Josiah Willard Gibbs, born 11 February 1839. Eighteen years old in May 1857. Maybe thought a little to young.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs
http://edgeeffects.net/davis-island-a-confederate-shrine-submerged/
“Davis Island: A Confederate Shrine, Submerged”
That is very interesting. I didn’t know that Joseph Davis’ slave wound up owning both plantations after the war. The article says Joseph ‘gifted’ Brierfield to Jefferson. I don’t know if that is strictly true. As I recall from this bio there was never a formal agreement and Jefferson never got title to his patch. So it was more of a loan.
Good post.
Trying to farm lowland near the Mississippi river is a risky thing. You might have a great crop, or you might get flooded out. The Davis family, and others, made a fortune, with land and slave labor purchased on easy credit. As the book notes, Jefferson Davis’ plantation suffered in his absences serving in Washington.
We see that, in 1857, he was already talking in code about secession. In 1861, he generally opposed secession until it happened, realizing how outnumbered the Confederates were. He hoped to be the commanding general of the Confederate Army, and was somewhat saddened to be appointed mere CSA President. As President, he got the largest share of the blame for the Confederate defeat.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
So we’ve discovered the roots of the liberal takeover of Columbia University.
Once one deviates from the pure doctrine of Predestination, as explained at extraordinary length by Jonathan Edwards, it’s all over but shooting the cripples. Come out from among ‘em, Mr. Strong!
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Frederic Edwin Church Wikipedia page. I don’t know exactly which landscape Strong saw. Maybe this one.
Here is an 1857 painting by Louis Remy Mignon .
Pretty pictures by Mr. Church, but neither the Andes of Ecuador nor the Valley of Mexico (if that’s what the other painting is, with the horseman) is particularly “sultry.”
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