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Harper’s Weekly – February 12, 1859
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| February 12, 1859
Posted on 02/12/2019 5:01:13 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harpers Ferry, the election of 1860, secession all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:03:24 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Judging by that period’s “Journal of Civilization”, we sure have come a long way baby...
Thx for the highbrow historical post!
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:32:48 AM PST
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from February 9
(reply #15.)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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posted on
02/13/2019 4:46:34 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson; DiogenesLamp; rockrr; DoodleDawg; jeffersondem; x
The editorial on page 4 titled,
"The Wolf at the Door", discussing shortfalls in Federal tariff revenues after the 1857 Panic, includes these most interesting and
apropos observations:
"New York, as a rule, has two great markets for her imports -- the South and the West.
The one depends on cotton, the other on corn.
Experience teaches that the Western or corn country is, at least twice as valuable a market as the Southern or cotton country.
Of these two sections the latter only can now be relied on as a market for New York imports.
The South is rich, and can afford to buy.
To the extent of the necessities of the Southern country, a demand for foreign merchandise may reasonably be anticipated.
But with regard to the West no such expectation can be entertained.
The West is at present moment largely indebted to the East..."
So historically the West held
twice the value to New York merchants as the South, but the 1857 Panic reversed that in early 1859.
We might also notice the obvious -- in this editorial there's no breath of a hint that New Yorkers wanted to go to war against recalcitrant
Westerners in order to extract their usual
"money flows from Europe".
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posted on
02/15/2019 2:42:35 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from February 13 (reply #4.)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
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posted on
02/17/2019 6:51:33 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I think that Singer guy advertising sewing machines might be onto something.
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posted on
02/17/2019 10:45:28 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(If Trump walked on water the press headline would read, "TRUMP CAN'T SWIM".)
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