Posted on 05/03/2021 5:23:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 1, 1861.
A train of cars left at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Annapolis, with passengers to connect by passenger steamer with railroad for Philadelphia at Perryville. Fare to Philadelphia $6. Tickets are headed "United States military route."
This arrangement is designed to be continued regularly. Time will be about fourteen hours to New-York if there is no delay at Philadelphia. No arrangements are made for checking baggage. The route is under supervision of the War Department, but not of the Army officers.
Gov. HICKS writes here that the conservative reaction at Baltimore has obtained complete possession of the city and State; and Baltimoreans say that if the War Department here would allow it, there would be not the least obstacle in the way of immediately resuming travel via that city direct.
Why this is not permitted, has not transpired. The closing of the route has already resulted in vast injury to Baltimore, crippling her trade, and causing her people serious distress.
When they pay for the bridges they burned on the northern Central Railroad -- which is chiefly Pennsylvania property -- CAMERON will probably allow travel through Baltimore to be reopened.
Messrs. EVARTS and WEED, of the New York Committee of Public Defence, who were sent on to confer with the President as to the policy to be pursued in the present crisis, started on their return last evening. They had a long interview with the President, and return well satisfied that the Administration is united, fully understands the impending crisis, and has determined upon a line of policy which will be sustained by the people, and will vindicate the power and majesty of the Government.
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If you thought the NYT’s insularity and arrogance is a new thing, check out the “For What Are We Fighting?” article.
Demiurge2: "If you thought the NYT’s insularity and arrogance is a new thing, check out the “For What Are We Fighting?” article."
I read it.
Our FRiend DiogenesLamp has long argued, the reason "Northeastern Power Brokers" waged war against Confederates was to protect their "money flows from Europe" which Confederates threatened to disrupt.
So I've read the editorials here hoping to find some evidence to support DiogenesLamp's historical theory.
No luck so far, but sometimes there is evidence for ideas somewhat related, including in today's editorial.
But it's not "money flows from Europe" they're worried about, rather it's loans from New Yorkers to people around the country.
Those loans the editors tell us total $1 billion which even today is a lot of money, but in 1860 was the equivalent in today's economy to roughly $5 trillion.
Of course, not all that money was loaned to Southerners, but the editors argue that if states are allowed to secede at pleasure and so revoke their debt payments, then all the money loaned by New Yorkers would soon be forfeited.
That's not exactly what DiogenesLamp has argued, but it's getting pretty close, and may well help explain how the Big City Democrat financial interests, so long allied to Southern Democrat slaveholders was flipped to support the Republican defense of Union and eventual opposition to slavery.
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