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April 1857
Harper's Magazine archives (subscription required) ^ | April 1857

Posted on 04/01/2017 7:29:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Thanks for the note - it explains a lot. Another manifestation of the green-eyed monster, it would appear.


41 posted on 04/08/2017 3:00:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker; Homer_J_Simpson

It does sound as if the legislative action was initiated out of envy. However, I can’t help thinking that, once it was brought up, the state legislature was hoping they could squeeze some tax money out of the situation.


42 posted on 04/08/2017 4:12:16 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Tax-chick

Some things never change, do they?!


43 posted on 04/08/2017 4:44:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Well, our current government wants to tax carbon dioxide, which we all produce with each breath.


44 posted on 04/08/2017 4:47:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: colorado tanker; Tax-chick
At least one thing has changed (from Harper's coverage of Buchanan's inaugural address):

“The President next refers to the unexampled fact that the Government is embarrassed by a revenue largely exceeding its wants . . .”

45 posted on 04/08/2017 5:15:04 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; colorado tanker

Well, just wait a few years ...


46 posted on 04/08/2017 5:21:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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Continued from April 7 (reply #33).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

47 posted on 04/10/2017 6:48:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I have a biography of Senator Sickles, “a man of notoriously bad habits and associations,” in at the Mecklenburg library. I found it in the catalog while I was looking for something else.

Maybe we’ll go this afternoon, what with its not being Good Friday here.


48 posted on 04/10/2017 8:07:53 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; colorado tanker; Tax-chick
“The President next refers to the unexampled fact that the Government is embarrassed by a revenue largely exceeding its wants . . .”

Ahhh, the unprecedented freedom of America in the 1800's from a relatively small and unintrusive federal government actually embarrassed by a surplus.

49 posted on 04/10/2017 11:32:42 AM PDT by Jim W N
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Enjoy your read of Dan Sickles bio. It should make for great reports, or at least sensational reports, for the class.

I have to reveal one spoiler. For Civil War devotees, this is the same Dan Sickles who without orders advanced his corps into the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, presenting a juicy target for Longstreet's corps.

50 posted on 04/10/2017 2:55:19 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Yes, it is the same Dan Sickles. I recall learning, sometime in the future, that Sickles was highly regarded by his men and by veterans, and was instrumental in the preservation/marking of the Gettysburg battlefield. It will be very interesting to learn more about him.


51 posted on 04/10/2017 3:14:43 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: colorado tanker
Weed was known as “Boss” Weed and was extremely influential in Albany.

I guess so. He was the longtime Whig Party boss and everybody knew it.

But he didn't have cartoonist Thomas Nast making the masses think "Boss" was his first name the way Manhattan Democrat William Marcy Tweed did.

52 posted on 04/10/2017 3:33:38 PM PDT by x
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“Boss Weed” and “Boss Tweed” could have been a vaudeville comedy team.


53 posted on 04/10/2017 3:40:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Tax-chick
Boss Tweed was a comedy team all his own after Nast got through with him.


54 posted on 04/10/2017 3:54:10 PM PDT by x
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In Colorado, nobody confuses weed with tweed. :-))


55 posted on 04/10/2017 4:16:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker; x

Ah, Colorado. My father had a poster in the 70s that said “Rocky Mountain High,” but it was about Coors beer.


56 posted on 04/10/2017 4:18:51 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: colorado tanker; Homer_J_Simpson; x

Dan Sickles is reminding me of Aaron Burr, in his character and influence over others. Lacks the monster classical education, though.

His mother attended Mr. Strong’s church.


57 posted on 04/11/2017 9:09:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Tax-chick

What has always bothered me about Sickles is that when he was wounded he returned to Washington ahead of the Army and immediately attacked Meade and tried to take credit for the victory himself despite his blunder in the Peach Orchard.


58 posted on 04/11/2017 11:46:07 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Although I’m only a couple of chapters into the book, it seems like exactly the kind of thing he would do. The book is called “American Scoundrel” for a reason!

He does, however, deserve credit for getting the enabling legislation for Central Park through the NY state legislature.


59 posted on 04/11/2017 11:53:12 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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Continued from April 10 (reply #47).

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

60 posted on 04/13/2017 5:23:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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