[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Lew Rockwell's just mad that every time he calls for one of his slaves to bring him a julep, nobody comes. Hell, that's enough to drive a man to naked treason, it is.

[sharktrager]

Would you agree that the greater industrial base and population density of the north made a northern route more reasonable for the trans-continental railroad?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I know this still goes on in my area - Dallas/Ft. Worth. When the new DFW International Airport was built years ago, all the rich and well connected people owned all the cheap farm land on which it was sited. Ross Perot Jr. bought lots of cheap farm land north of Ft. Worth and then the fed, local, and state governments helped him build a large private airport, Alliance Airport, basically paying for it. The City of Ft. Worth than had the audacity to want to manage it and all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, Perot ran the airport and the Ft. Worth upstart politicians were licking their wounds.

[billbears]

In the mid to late 1850s Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer. His clients included the Illinois Central, which at the time was the largest corporation in the world. In 1857 he represented the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, which was owned by four men who would later become infamous as "robber barons" for receiving – and squandering – millions of dollars in federal subsidies for their transcontinental railroad. Granting these men their subsidies would become one of the first orders of business in the Lincoln administration.

DiLorenzo bump

[GOPcapitalist]

Funny. I thought this was a thread about Lincoln by a widely published Lincoln critic. Yet if one were to go by the comments of its detracters alone they'd think it was a thread about Lew Rockwell. Go figure.

[#3Fan]

This powerful clique of New England/New York/Chicago business interests "aroused the suspicions of the South," says Brown, since they were so vigorously lobbying Congress to allocate huge sums of money for a transcontinental railroad across the Northern states. Southern politicians wanted the route to pass through their states, naturally, but they knew they were outgunned politically by the political clique from "the Yankee belt" (New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, the upper Midwest).

Why put the railroad in the South when it was the North that was more industrialized?

[fightu4it]

Why start with Lincoln?

Why not go back to Washington' time and take a look at the companies selling government lands? Take a look at the banks financing those sales.

Greed is about as constant as an atomic clock.

[Calpernia]

bump for later

[Non-Sequitur]

Only Tommy DiLusional could connect the prosecution of Martha Stewart with Abraham Lincoln, and use a ficitonal TV series to make his case.