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The Thing About Today – March 4
The Thing About Today – March 4
March 4, 2020 Day 64 of 366
March 4th is the sixty-fourth day of the year. It is St. Casimir’s Fair, also known as Kaziuko mugė, a large annual folk arts and crafts fair in Vilnius, Lithuania.
In the United States, today is “celebrated” as National Grammar Day, National Hug a G.I. Day, Marching Music Day, National Pound Cake Day, and National Sons Day.
Historical items of note:
In 1628,…
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David Rice Atchison
Good and Bad News for John Brown
John Brown
Gentle readers, I’m not going to do a full political post today but I want to draw your attention to the attack against civilization currently pending before the Senate and encourage you to make your opposition known to your Senators. If the reasons there don’t suffice, then the GOP also looks likely to use it as a vehicle to pack the courtswith the sorts of judges who think Donald…
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"A soulless, eyeless monster-horrid, unshapely, and vast" Sumner vs. Douglas
“A soulless, eyeless monster-horrid, unshapely, and vast” Sumner vs. Douglas
Charles Sumner (Free Soil-MA)
We have followed Charles’ Sumner’s career in the Senate all the way to the fall of 1853. At the end of it all, his coalition lost their majorities in Massachusetts. They blamed Sumner’s refusal to campaign for the party. Under their increasing criticism Sumner took out his frustrations on a friend of his, Francis Lieber. It must have seemed likely he would serve only…
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Gallant Manslaughter and Mercenary Homicide: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part Three
Gallant Manslaughter and Mercenary Homicide: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part Three
Andrew Butler (D-SC)
Parts 1, 2
According to Andrew Butler, the people of Lawrence and their friends in the Senate owed David Rice Atchison a debt of gratitude. Recognizing that the antislavery party had outmaneuvered the army he helped bring to destroy the town, Bourbon Dave talked them down. A hero like that did not deserve the kind of castigation employed against him one bit. Even failing…
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Antislavery Ingrates: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part Two
Antislavery Ingrates: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part Two
Andrew Butler (D-SC)
We left Andrew Butler, David Rice Atchison’s old housemate, opining on Kansas mattersto the United States Senate. He began by castigating John Hale (R-NH), for calling out the Supreme Court and Franklin Pierce. They had not, per Butler, contradicted their principles or gone whole hog for slavery. The Senator from South Carolina admitted, however, that if Roger Taney had done…
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Youthful Indiscretions: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part One
Youthful Indiscretions: Andrew Butler on Kansas, Part One
Andrew Butler (D-SC)
A Closer Look at Atchison, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
We left David Rice Atchison anticipating the historical consensus on Franklin Pierce as president. The proclamations against the free state party, even if they had empty swipes at Atchison’s own cross-border activities, raised the president’s stock to slightly better than indifferent. When Wilson Shannon failed to move against…
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