Posted on 02/10/2016 6:50:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Don’t spend too much time lamenting New Hampshire, Hillary. There are the transcripts of your Wall Street speeches to worry about. Oh, and then there’s the FBI investigation . . .
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Hillary is the anti Sally Fields.
“They hate me. They really do hate me!”
Don’t, sulk, just go off and die, you freaking good for nothing, radioactive, blood thirsty old hag.
Hillary and Albright, The Axis of Evil Grannies. ;-)
I see some of the comments from Hillary’s paid speech to Goldman Sachs leaked from Goldman. To paraphrase a line from the second worst Secretary of State in our history,Madeline Albright, the thrust of Hillary’s talk was there is a special place in hell for politicians who don’t support Goldman Sachs.
Fooling some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time but not enough to get elected.
I have began to realize the same was likely true back in 1861.
At least so far as the Union was concerned.
Hillary campaign is a dead man walking.
The Party is playing a game with her and it won’t be long, she will be thrown under the bus. Just like 2008.
Lincoln led the first 'fundamental transformation' of America. 0bama is continuing the Lincoln traditions of unconstitutional offenses and radical transformation. And now, another Illinois senator and criminal element is vying for the same position.
It would appear that the biggest problem America has is senators from Illinois.
Empowered by the financial titans of New England. I read awhile back that Henry Clay was Lincoln's mentor, and that his primary political philosophy was "Mercantilism."
I think "Mercantilism" eventually evolved into "Fascism."
Perhaps the following excerpts from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper of February 5, 1861 will help explain the system:
The Warehousing System and the New Tariff Bill
The Morrill Tariff Bill, to which we referred yesterday, with one blow destroys the present warehousing system, which allows foreign goods to remain on bond for three years from the period of importation, during which time they may be withdrawn for export to foreign countries, or for home consumption.
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This new bill as passed by the lower House proposes to compel payment of duty within 30 days of arrival if for consumption, and if their duties are not thus paid, the law compels their export out of the country, Under the Revenue laws so far back as 1790 merchants had nine months to pay their duties, before the creation of the warehouse system. We had supposed the world was moving forward, but this tariff bill indicates that our part of it is tending backward. While the commercial countries of Europe are extending and liberalizing the laws governing trade and commerce, our Legislatures are contracting them.
This bill especially affects New York. Under the provisions of the warehouse law, with its facilities for trade, shipping and monied interest has centered here. New York has become to the New World what London is to Europe – a great commercial centre, where vessels bring the produce of foreign nations and from whence they may be re-laden without payment of duties, in assorted cargoes and sail for any part of the world. Under the provisions of the present law a very large export trade is done with Mexico, South American provinces and the Canadas. There is also a very large transport trade from New York to the interior and sea board ports of our own country. This new law will alike affect the interests of the ship-owners, the bankers, the merchants and the capitalists.
It materially interferes with the interests of this city of Brooklyn, Upon our water front there are now built large and commodious warehouses for the storage of the heavier classes of merchandise; they were erected by our capitalists for bonded stores upon the supposition that the warehouse system would be a permanency. In New York there are in use 60 stores for bonded goods generally, and 52 cellars for bonded liquor. In this city 48 stores are used as bonded warehouses for general merchandise. These give employment to a large amount of capital and to hundreds of men. Each proprietor of a bonded store pays to the collector one hundred dollars per month for the salary of the officer of the revenue who is appointed by the government as storekeeper. The rent and all other expenses are held in bond at no expense to the government.
---We learn that the Senate Committee propose to extend the time for payment of duties to 2 or 4 months; that will not materially mend the matter, and we have no hope that this proposed amendment will prevail. It is the determination of the Republican party to give the country a protective Tariff that embraces an annihilation of the warehousing system. They have the majority both in the House, where the bill has passed, and also in the Senate, where we have good reason to believe it will obtain votes sufficient to make it a law, notwithstanding the protestations of our merchants both Republicans and Democrats.
And a January 25, 1862 article in the New York Times: Link
That made vast fortunes in the slave trade.
Nice chart. It becomes apparent who is making out the most...
So true!
My thinking is that New York was exercising a great deal of influence on the direction of the country at this time. If I am getting the gist of your point correctly, you are saying that they didn't feel as though they were exercising enough.
And every other pie they could get their finger into.
I'm beginning to think that back then the primary enemy of freedom on this continent was New England money and Liberalism, same as now.
This is what I am thinking. The Chart was created to mock the argument that the Southern States were paying the lions share of the Tariffs that ran the US Government.
It made me realize that New York was collecting tariffs for money earned by Southern Exports.
Couple that with the fact that all the coastal packet shipping was ran out of New England, and you start to see the financial cost to them of Southern Independence.
It made me realize the war was about the loss of New England money, and the propaganda to justify it was about "slavery."
The monied titans of New England couldn't afford to allow Charleston to take half or more of that money pile from imports/exports.
So true. That, coupled with the fact that Northern textile mills and shipping would be worth little without cotton, made the war a necessity for the North.
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