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WHIG https://www.dailykos.com/news/WHIG News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:15:35 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:15:35 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Slavery & Mercantilism https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1/18/1270726/-Slavery-Mercantilism The ongoing debate between historians who study The Revolutionary era is a political one. Participants typically fall into two camps, Jeffersonian sympathizers and Hamiltonian sympathizers, and the debate invariably covers the topic of slavery, a moral blight upon the Revolutionary generation that would continue as a matter of debate for every generation that succeeded it. Hamiltonian sympathizers claim The Federalists were opposed to slavery whereas The Anti-Federalists - and by extension, The Democrat-Republicans - were avidly pro-slavery, which is a convenient half-truth. It’s unlikely that slavery would have dominated the colonial landscape if it were not for British economic policy, which was predicated upon the success of a wealthy upperclass working in concert with government through a system of exploitation that lowers wages, increases profits and raises armies. Slavery was foisted upon the colonial South to increase supply for Britain’s manufacturing base. Most planters (plantation owners) were members of the British aristocracy, wealthy land speculators who lived abroad and sought low-wage labor to defray the costs for their overseas operations. Colonists eager to compete with their neighbors, absentee landlords who had amassed large tracts of land, found themselves indebted to The Royal African Company, a state-sanctioned monopoly owned by The Royal House of Stuart that encouraged the growth of America’s peculiar institution by trading chattel property (slaves) for credit. rss@dailykos.com (johnnymonicker) CivilWar FrederickDouglass FreeSoilFreeSoilParty Hamilton Jefferson mercantilism Nullification Savannah Slavery States Rights StatesRights TheConfederacy theunion voluntary WageSlavery WHIG _1270726 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:26:36 +0000 Congressional History at a Glance (via XKCD) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/21/1163719/-Congressional-History-at-a-Glance-via-XKCD This morning I was greeted with a spectacular display of information that I found at the same time beautiful, educational, and awe-inspiring. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I direct your attention to this most arresting visual display: rss@dailykos.com (ThatTallGuy) Congress Democratic Party DemocraticParty History Party Republican Party RepublicanParty Third Party ThirdParty WHIG xkcd _1163719 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:43:33 +0000 IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/7/3/1106070/-IN-CONGRESS-July-4-1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. <blockquote>IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,   --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:   --He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.   --He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.   --He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.   --He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.   --He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.   --He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.   --He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. (My emphasis- just a little interesting, considering our times and their- they wanted more immigration.)   --He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.   --He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.   --He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.   --He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.   --He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.   --He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:   --For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:   --For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:   --For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:   --For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:   --For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:   --For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:   --For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:   --For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:   --For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.   --He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.   --He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.   --He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.   --He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.   --He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. </blockquote> ---------------------------- rss@dailykos.com (imobannon) 4th of July 4thofJuly America Britain Brittain Constitution Democrats Glenn Beck GlennBeck God GOP GreatBritain IndependenceDay libaugh Pizza UnitedStates USA WHIG _1106070 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:17:55 +0000 Never Forget: How Bush Lied Us Into War https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/9/19/1018249/-Never-Forget-How-Bush-Lied-Us-Into-War Many Americans are vaguely aware that George W. Bush lied us into a war. Everyone knows about the infamous 16 words in his State of the Union speech and Valerie Plame. But few appreciate the full extent to which the administration brazenly manipulated intelligence, the United Nations, Congress, the media and ultimately the American people. The common perception is that Bush was just misled by his intelligence analysts. That he may have been wrong about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction but was only acting according to what the CIA told him. This is false. In perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of the Iraq war deception,Hoodwinked, The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War (published in 2004), John Prados, an analyst for the National Security Archive who has spent decades observing the CIA, exposes in great detail with smoking gun evidence how the administration knowingly deceived the public and forced CIA director George Tenet to take the fall during the lead-up to war. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and the recent propaganda blitzes by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, now is an important time to reflect on where our government has taken us since that fateful September morning, as the assault on truth and the rule of law launched by Bush has opened the floodgates for executive overreach, which has arguably increased under Obama...  <a href="http://thebloodycrossroads.com/never-forget-how-bush-lied-us-into-war/221290/">Continue Reading</a> rss@dailykos.com (thebloodycrossroads) BushLied hoodwinked Iraq War IraqWar JohnPados Propaganda WHIG _1018249 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:36:47 +0000 The Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 12 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/22/969250/-The-Care-Feeding-and-Reproduction-of-the-American-Election-part-12 This is a surprisingly short section at the moment, given the subject. rss@dailykos.com (Ponder Stibbons) Al Franken AlFranken AndrewJackson AndrewJohnson BenjaminHarrison California CalvinCoolidge Congress DwightEisenhower Elections FranklinRoosevelt GeorgeWashington GroverCleveland JamesCox JohnQuincyAdams JohnTyler Mexican-AmericanWar New York NewYork Norm Coleman NormColeman Ohio PaulWellstone Presidency RichardNixon RobertKennedy RutherfordHayes SecretService ThomasMarshall UlyssesGrant WalterMondale WarrenHarding WHIG WilliamHenryHarrison WilliamTaft WoodrowWilson WorldWar2 ZacharyTaylor _969250 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:13:43 +0000 NY-23: Going rogue like it's 1852 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/5/800828/-NY-23-Going-rogue-like-it-s-1852 With its conservative purity tests and purges, by "going rogue" is the Republican Party going the way of the Whigs? In the Whig morality tale, the mortal wound to the party was dealt in the presidential election of 1852. The issues causing fault lines in the party were slavery, "Free Soil," "Free Trade," "Sewardism," etc. At the Whig nominating convention, factions within the party torpedoed their own incumbent president, Millard Fillmore--preventing his re-nomination on 53 separate ballots--ultimately settling in favor of war hero Gen. Winfield Scott. <img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x269/jmknapp/1852.jpg" /> This Whig cartoon shows Scott on his gamecock overtaking Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce on his goose. But under the bravado the party was badly damaged. rss@dailykos.com (jmknapp) Conservative GOP Palin Republican WHIG _800828 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:34:58 +0000 When Did Iran Start Beating Its Wife Again? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/29/505494/-When-Did-Iran-Start-Beating-Its-Wife-Again Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Strategic_Influence">Office of Strategic Influence</a> shortly after the 9/11 attacks to bolster support for the Bush administration’s war on terror.  Air Force Brigadier General Simon P. Worden, OSI’s director, envisioned the organization as having "a broad mission ranging from 'black' campaigns that use disinformation and other covert activities to 'white' public affairs that rely on truthful news releases." The furor over his establishment of what amounted to an Orwellian Ministry of Truth caused Rumsfeld to disband the OSI in February 2002, but he later promised that when it came to manipulating public perceptions to suit his agenda, "I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have." There’s one nice thing you can say about Rumsfeld: he keeps his word. rss@dailykos.com (Jeff Huber) Dick Cheney DickCheney DonaldRumsfeld George W. Bush GeorgeWBush Iran Iraq OSI OSP Propaganda WHIG _505494 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:39:39 +0000