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An intellectual podcast on succession and the status of our country (culturally & politically). The length is 17 minutes. Listen to at least the first 5 minutes for a flavor of the discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6PRGn0G_Nw&t=342s
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, Jan. 3. The President has returned the last communication of the South Carolina Commissioners unopened; and he has declined to receive anything more from them. They left in the morning boat for Charleston. The Savannah forts were seized by Citizens of Georgia, at suggestions telegraphed from this city by the Georgia Delegation in Congress. The Augusta arsenal has been some days in their possession. Prominent citizens of North Carolina, on hearing the that troops were ordered South, called on Gov. ELLIS, and demanded the seizure of the forts at Wilmington. The demand being refused, they determined to act...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 2. We have a Government at last. High authority announces that the policy of the Administration, towards the Secessionists, is entirely changed. Henceforth it will be concillatory but firm in the execution of the laws. The steam frigate Brooklyn and another vessel at Norfolk were yesterday ordered to be in readiness for immediate departure to Charleston. The Brooklyn's cruise is up, and her crew are waiting to be paid off and discharged. But the emergency is considered too pressing to admit it. The secession leaders discovered yesterday the intention to start these vessels, and notified their sympathizers...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 31. The scene in the Senate to-day was the most intensely exciting that was ever witnessed in that chamber. Senator BENJAMIN, of Louisiana, who, it had been reported, would make a conciliatory speech, gave out that he would make a parting secession speech, -- an announcement which drew an immense audience. Every corner was crowded. The lobbies were full. Senator BENJAMIN spoke calmly throughout, but the character of his speech at the close opened up to everyone the new era in national affairs. His closing declaration, that the South could never be subjugated, was greeted by the...
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OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 30. Another prop of the Old Public Functionary has been knocked from under him. The resignation of Secretary FLOYD yesterday, after an excited Cabinet discussion, running through forty-eight hours, will surprise no one, after what is already known. Yet some details, from reliable authority, may be interesting. It appears that Secretary FLOYD, with the full knowledge and consent of the President, pledged his honor that no change should be made in the position of affairs in Charleston harbor, -- South Carolina giving a pledge to respect all public property in the meantime, -- until...
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CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 28. The Palmetto flag was raised early yesterday afternoon over the Custom-house and Post-office. At 5 o'clock last evening the Palmetto flag was raised at Castle Pinckney. A large military force went over last night to take possession of Fort Moultrie. Fort Moultrie and Castle Finckney were taken possession of by the South Carolina military last evening. CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 28. Capt. HUMPHREYS still holds possession of the Arsenal. Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie are occupied by the State troops, under the instructions of the Governor of the State, to hold peaceable possession of these forts, and...
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Yesterday, I wrote about a New York Times story that focused on an 18-year-old boy from an affluent Virginia community who sat for a year on an old 3-second private video in which a classmate, when she was 15, used a racial slur because she thought the word made her cool and “grown-up.” My post focused on the behavior of the Times and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for validating this cruel and immature behavior. Robert Stacy McCain noticed something else foul about the article: It’s part of the New York Times's consistent pattern of demeaning the Southern states. I take...
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CHARLESTON, Thursday, Dec. 27. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 27. The proceedings of the House and Senate were completely broken up by the news from Charleston, and soon after its reception they adjourned. Fort Moultrie was evacuated last night. Previous to the evacuation the guns were spiked. Only four soldiers were left in charge. The troops have all been conveyed to Fort Sumter. Intense excitement and indignation prevails. The Convention is in secret session. The gun-carriages are being burnt at Fort Moultrie. The cannon are spiked, and it is reported that a train is laid to blow up the fort. The last...
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Every November 6, the Roman Catholic Church in Spain commemorates the saints martyred by the Communists during the Spanish Civil War. During the Red Terror of the 1930s, Communists killed more than 6,800 bishops, priests, monks, and religious. Yet outside Spain, their story is largely forgotten.
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 26. The report that the Military Committee of the Senate had under consideration the Pittsburgh affair, is incorrect; but the Cabinet being in session it was discussed by them. It is universally conceded that if the Government insists upon the shipment of arms from Pittsburgh, it must also reinforce the Southern forts, and enforce the laws there. The Administration is in great tribulation about it. Efforts will be made, by influential persons sent from Washington, to induce the people to desist, and allow the arms to be shipped. Mr. CASS was on the Avenue this afternoon. He...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. 25. Christmas Day has been very dull, and everybody seems to be gloomy. Very many gentlemen have gone home to spend the holidays. The investigation has been pursued in the matter of the frauds at the Department of the Interior to-day. Nothing beyond the amount first mentioned has yet been discovered. A rumor has been current for the past three days of frauds in the Treasury Department, but it is without foundation, so far as I can learn. No investigation has been instituted, as stated, in that Department. RUSSELL has gone to jail for want of bonds;...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 24. Governor ANDREW, Senators DOOLITTLE and TRUMBULL, Representatives BURLINGAME and TAPPAN, and a number of other Senators and members of Congress, held a conference, yesterday, at the rooms of FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Sr., and unanimously agreed that the integrity of the Union should be preserved, though it cost millions of lives. Private information reports Gov. HOUSTON as making a great Union speech, in the face of threats, and eventually carrying with him the largest audience ever assembled in Texas. Prominent Republicans are moving here to secure HOUSTON a seat in the Cabinet, as he has indicated his...
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A Socialist called into Sean Hannity’s radio show this week and said the quiet part out loud. The Socialist caller, David, told Hannity’s guest host ‘Rose Unplugged’ that conservatives will never win another election again because the left “has the machines and has the courts.”
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Interesting from the Federal Capital. Failure of the Senate Committee to Agree upon a Basis of Settlement. Address from Senator Toombs to the People of Georgia. He Advises Secession by the Fourth of March. RETURN OF GEN. CUSHING TO WASHINGTON. BELLIGERENT RUMORS FROM CHARLESTON. Proceedings of the South Carolina State Convention. OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 23. The Senate Committee of Thirteen will report to-morrow, when Senator TOOMBS will speak in denunciation of the Republican Party, and will repudiate any further effort at reconciliation. Mr. TOOMBS telegraphs this evening the following address to the people of Georgia: "I came...
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FREEPERS, THIS IS LONG...BUT THE COST AHEAD IS GREAT.... THIS IS PART II OF A CLEAR CALL TO ARMS, FROM THE NATIONS LARGEST GROUP OF CURRENT AND FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY MEMBERS. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?? ARE YOU READY? MILLIONS ARE. (web version at link above) *********************************************** President Trump, Today, December 23, is the anniversary of the reading of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, Number 1, to Washington’s troops as they prepared their minds, bodies, and spirits for the critical battle of Trenton, which turned the tide of the war. General Washington had suffered defeat after defeat, and...
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CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 21. The Convention met at noon. Prayer was offered, invoking God's blessing on the new Confederacy. Immediately after reading the journal -- Mr. ADAMS moved to exclude the reporters and strangers. Mr. HARLLER offered a written substitute, appointing a Committee to wait on the Governor, so that the Convention can advise with him, in secret session, relative to the present state of affairs. Laid aside. Mr. ADAMS wanted the presence of the Postmaster Carried. Mr. INGLIS wanted an official reporter. Lost. Mr. RHETT reported from the Committee appointed to prepare an address to the Southern people. Mr....
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The full report of Wednesday's proceedings having been received too late for insertion in our entire edition of yesterday, we reproduce the following portion: J.P. REED introduced a resolution, first ordering the President to appoint a Cashier and Deputy-Cashier; second, ordering the Clerk to superintend the printing of the Convention; third, that reporters for public journals shall be allowed access to the hail for the purpose of reporting; fourth, that the regular hour for meeting shall be 10 o'clock, subject to a special order; fifth, that an alphabetical list of their members, with their Post-office address, be provided; sixth, that...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 19. Senator JOHNSON'S speech to-day was a strong vindication of the supremacy of the Constitution, and a refutation of the asserted right of any State to secede. It was able and impressive, and was listened to with interest. Naturally enough the ultra Southern Senators are dissatisfied with it, as it was severe in its denunciation of Southern ultraism, and left little hope that Tennessee would yield to it. Gen. LANE made a brief reply. The Deficiency bill was passed in the House, including an appropriation of $900,000 for the return of recaptured Africans. EDWIN E. STANTON, of...
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