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Historical Histri-Onyx !
More than you ever wanted to know ?— about the details of the Morrill Tariff legislation. Congressmen expressed anxiety, and relief, on Saturday, March 02, 1861, when they received this message: “ The Senate have passed a joint resolution of this House” (H. Res. 80). “ Mr. Speaker Pennington rose and addressed the House.” “ Several States have seceded.” “ I still declare my willingness to join in measures of compromise.” Saturday, March 02, 1861, The Senate: “On motion by Mr. Douglas, to postpone the consideration of the pending question and all prior orders, and that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.” “A disorder prevailing in the galleries to the right of the Chair, On motion by Mr. Douglas, That the galleries to the right of the Chair be cleared, It was determined in the affirmative, . . .” Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from lllinois, candidate for President— rejected by Southern delegates at the convention in Charleston, South Carolina: voted in the affirmative, for the constitutional amendment which would protect slave ownership in southern states. Douglas was rejected because he did not accept the demand for obligatory slavery in the territories ( Democratic platform.) Vice-President John Breckenridge, of Kentucky, appointed “the select committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338.) . . .” He was “elected a senator by the legislature of the State of Kentucky for the term of six years,” and the Senate which had voted to enact the Morrill Tariff Bill— unanimously agreed to: The resolution which tendered thanks “ for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of the Chair, during the term of his presiding over this body.” Edwin C. Rozwenc wrote: THE PRESENT CRISIS IN THE HISTORICAL EXPLANATION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: “ One hundred years after the sectional crisis which led to civil war, American Historians are beset by a crisis of historical interpretation concerning the causes of ‘ the American tragedy.’ Disagreements among contemporary historians are expressed with a sharpness of tone and a strength of emotion . . .” “ A less obvious though equally fundamental side of this crisis of historical interpretation is the uncertainty among historians about the meaning and the usefulness of the idea of causation.” “ Indeed, the author of a recent study of the historiography of the Civil War concludes that ‘ the further the Civil War receded into the past, the greater the disagreement among twentieth century historians over its causes and the greater the strength of the emotions . . .’ ” “ The more serious question is whether the idea of causality can have any usefulness even with better statistical materials. Historians have long been aware of David Hume’s critical analysis of causality made in his famous Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), although very few historians were influenced by such radical skepticism concerning causal explanations in history until twentieth century developments in quantum physics and in the study of symbolic logic seemed to undermine all the older notions of cause and effect and to replace them with theories of probability and indeterminism. We realize that it is becoming fashionable to say, as does the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, that causality . . . is a relic of a bygone age, surviving like a monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.” “ Indeed, some historians are ready to assert that . . . the time may have arrived to exclude the word cause from the vocabulary of historians even as physicists and philosophers are doing in their respective disciplines.” (The Causes Of The American Civil War, edited by Edwin C. Rozwenc, pages 225-230.) Mr. Rozwenc presents the context which explains the peculiar motivations of Southern delegates at the National Convention for Democrats in Charleston. His book is a “Rosetta Stone” of crucial analysis. Charles A. Beard, Allan Nevins, William Seward, and others— are the antidote for causality claptrap, inflicted by demented philosophizers, upon apoplectic Historians! “ String theorists treated nonbelievers as though they were a little slow-witted. Now, it seems, at least some superstring advocates are ready to abandon the essential definition of science itself on the basis that string theory is too important to be hampered by old-fashioned notions of experimental proof.” (Unraveling of String Theory, Time: Aug. 14, 2006 ) Theories of Alternate Universes have unraveled tightly wound Historians, it seems? Theory And History is the book by Ludwig von Mises which offers a method to interpret the Causes of those decisions which achieve the events recorded as history. Thymology is the Study of Actions Performed to learn the Judgments of value which motivated plans to realize those wishes and desires. Perhaps Mr. Rozwenc has sly, droll, sins of humor? Many outrageous jokes are camouflaged with pedantic language. Children enjoy the conversations of Alice, written by Lewis Carroll. Adults enjoy the conundrums. Ludwig von Mises introduced his book— Theory And History: “ Mortal man does not know how the universe and all that it contains may appear to a superhuman intelligence. Perhaps such an exalted mind is in a position to elaborate a coherent and comprehensive monistic interpretation of all phenomena. Man— up to now, at least— has always gone lamentably amiss in his attempts to bridge the gulf that he sees yawning between mind and matter, between the rider and the horse, between the mason and the stone.” “ Older ages looked upon the issue from a moral or religious point of view. Materialist monist was rejected as incompatible with the Christian dualism of the Creator and the creation, and of the immortal soul and the mortal body. Determinism was rejected as incompatible with the fundamental principles of morality as well as with the penal code. Most of what was advanced in these controversies to support the respective dogmas was unessential and is irrelevant from the methodological point of view of our day. The determinists did little more than repeat their theses again and again, without trying to substantiate it. The indeterminists denied their adversaries’ statements but were unable to strike at their weak points. The long debates were not very helpful. The scope of the controversy changed when the new science of economics entered the scene. . . They behaved as if they had never heard about the logical problems involved in induction. Everything that was neither experimentation nor induction was in their eyes metaphysics, a term that they employed as synonymous with nonsense.” What Good is it? Did you waste your time— reading and thinking about these events, and the incendiary choices of leaders? Secession was a response to the political competition for control of the Federal Government. Control was lost, due to impetuous delegates at the Charleston convention. Opportunists in the U. S. Senate took advantage of the resignation of fourteen Senators — to enact the Morrill Tariff legislation. President Lincoln applied the enforcement power of the Federal Government to collect the Tariff — by the blockade of Charleston Harbor. General Beauregard instigated the attack on Fort Sumter — to protect the international commerce of the harbor. President Lincoln aroused the patriotic frenzy of the United States, by suggesting that the immediate conflict— about Tariff collection, was an aggression— against Northern States. Emotional Frenzy explains a great deal: A gigantic Asylum of patriotic fanatics were led by the progeny of Achilles — into Continental conflagration. Consider the historical accounts of the Civil War, as laboratory notes of a gigantic experiment by Doctor Mengele and psychotic opportunists. Government is accepted as a means to regulate Un-social relations — and maintain peaceful stability. Compare Jefferson Davis — Abraham Lincoln. Which person worked to stabilize peaceful relations of the Union? Which person instigated Continental conflagration? Apply the wisdom of Dale Carnegie, instead of attempting to imitate the atavistic animal behavior of barbaric, primitive humans. Human Nature is capable of Reason. Great Leaders persuade their admirers to be productive and peaceful. Honorable leaders defend against attack. Wisdom— is the ability to identify the Instigator of Attack, from the Defender of Liberty. “ The Roots of War,” chapter two, of the book by Ayn Rand: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, identifies this difference. “ Statism— in fact and in principle— is nothing more than gang rule. A dictatorship is a gang devoted to looting the effort of the citizens of its own country.” Andrew Jackson used the Tariff of Abominations to repay the national debt. We continue to clean up after Aggressive Democracy. Meating of the Minds? Morrill Tariff, Politics of Slavery, TaxJudas.com LandGrab.us

Historical Histri-Onyx !

More than you ever wanted to know ?— about the details of  the Morrill Tariff legislation.   Congressmen expressed anxiety, and relief, on Saturday, March 02, 1861, when they received this message: “ The Senate have passed a joint resolution of  this House” (H. Res. 80).
“ Mr. Speaker Pennington rose and addressed the House.”   “ Several States have seceded.”   “ I  still declare my   willingness to join in   measures of compromise.”

Saturday, March 02, 1861, The Senate: “On motion by Mr. Douglas, to postpone the consideration of the pending question and all prior orders, and that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution  (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States.”
“A disorder prevailing in the galleries to the right of the Chair,   On motion by Mr. Douglas, That the galleries to the right of the Chair be cleared, It was determined in the affirmative, . . .”
Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from lllinois, candidate for President— rejected by Southern delegates at the convention in Charleston, South Carolina: voted in  the affirmative, for the constitutional amendment which would protect slave ownership in southern states.   Douglas was rejected because he did not accept the demand for obligatory slavery in the territories ( Democratic platform.)

Vice-President John Breckenridge, of Kentucky, appointed “the select committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338.) . . .”
He was “elected a senator by the legislature of the State of Kentucky for the term of six years,” and the Senate which had voted to enact the Morrill Tariff  Bill— unanimously agreed to: The resolution which tendered thanks “ for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has discharged the laborious duties of the Chair, during the term of  his presiding over this body.”

Edwin C. Rozwenc wrote: THE PRESENT CRISIS IN THE HISTORICAL EXPLANATION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: “ One hundred years after the sectional crisis which led to civil war, American Historians are beset by a crisis of historical interpretation concerning the causes of ‘ the American tragedy.’ Disagreements among contemporary historians are expressed with a sharpness of  tone and a strength of emotion . . .”
“ A less obvious though equally fundamental side of this crisis of historical interpretation is the uncertainty among historians about the meaning and the usefulness of  the idea of  causation.”
“ Indeed, the author of a recent study of the historiography of the Civil War concludes that ‘ the further the Civil War receded into the past, the greater the disagreement among twentieth century historians over its causes and  the greater the strength of the emotions . . .’ ”
“ The more serious question is whether the idea of causality can have any usefulness even with better statistical materials. Historians have long been aware of David Hume’s critical analysis of causality made in his famous Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), although very few historians were influenced by such radical skepticism concerning causal explanations in history until twentieth century developments in quantum physics and in the study of symbolic logic seemed to undermine all the older notions of cause and effect and to replace them with theories of  probability and indeterminism. We realize that it is becoming fashionable to say, as  does the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, that causality . . . is  a  relic of  a  bygone age, surviving like a monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.”
“ Indeed, some historians are ready to assert that . . . the  time may have arrived to exclude the word cause from the vocabulary of  historians even  as  physicists and philosophers are doing in their respective disciplines.”   (The  Causes Of  The American Civil War, edited by Edwin C. Rozwenc, pages 225-230.)

Mr. Rozwenc presents the context which explains the peculiar motivations of Southern delegates at the National Convention for Democrats in Charleston. His book is a “Rosetta Stone” of crucial analysis.   Charles A. Beard, Allan Nevins, William Seward, and others— are the antidote for causality claptrap, inflicted by demented philosophizers, upon apoplectic Historians!
“ String theorists treated nonbelievers as though they were a little slow-witted. Now, it seems, at least some superstring advocates are ready to abandon the essential definition of science itself on the basis that string theory is too important to be hampered by old-fashioned notions of experimental proof.” (Unraveling of String Theory, Time:  Aug. 14, 2006 ) Theories of Alternate Universes have unraveled tightly wound Historians, it seems?
Theory And History is  the book by Ludwig von Mises which offers a method to interpret the Causes of those decisions which achieve the events recorded as history. Thymology is the Study of Actions Performed to learn the Judgments of  value which motivated plans to realize those wishes and desires.
Perhaps Mr. Rozwenc has sly, droll, sins of humor? Many outrageous jokes are camouflaged with pedantic language. Children enjoy the conversations of Alice, written by Lewis Carroll. Adults enjoy the conundrums.   Ludwig von Mises introduced his book— Theory And History: “ Mortal man does not know how the universe and all that it contains may appear to a superhuman intelligence. Perhaps such an exalted mind is in a position to elaborate a coherent and comprehensive monistic interpretation of all phenomena. Man— up to now, at least— has always gone lamentably amiss in his attempts to bridge the gulf that he sees yawning between mind and matter, between the rider and the horse, between the mason and the stone.”
“ Older ages looked upon the issue from a moral or religious point of view. Materialist monist was rejected as incompatible with the Christian dualism of the Creator and the creation, and of the immortal soul and the mortal body. Determinism was rejected as incompatible with the fundamental principles of morality as well as with the penal code. Most of what was advanced in these controversies to support the respective dogmas was unessential and is irrelevant from the methodological point of  view of our day. The determinists did little more than repeat their theses again and again, without trying to substantiate it. The  indeterminists denied their adversaries’ statements but were unable to strike at their weak points. The long debates were not very helpful. The scope of the controversy changed when the new science of economics entered the scene. . . They behaved as if they had never heard about the logical problems involved in induction. Everything that was neither experimentation nor induction was in their eyes metaphysics, a term that they employed as synonymous with nonsense.”

What Good is it? Did you waste your time— reading and thinking about these events, and the incendiary choices of  leaders? Secession was a response to the political competition for control of the Federal Government. Control was lost, due to impetuous delegates at the Charleston convention. Opportunists in the U. S. Senate took advantage of the resignation of fourteen Senators — to enact the Morrill Tariff legislation. President Lincoln applied the enforcement power of the Federal Government to collect the Tariff — by the blockade of Charleston Harbor. General Beauregard instigated the attack on Fort Sumter — to protect the international commerce of  the harbor. President Lincoln aroused the patriotic frenzy of the United States, by suggesting that the immediate conflict— about Tariff collection, was an  aggression— against Northern States.
Emotional Frenzy explains a great deal: A gigantic Asylum of patriotic fanatics were led by the progeny of  Achilles — into Continental conflagration.
Consider the historical accounts of the Civil War, as laboratory notes of  a gigantic experiment by Doctor Mengele and psychotic opportunists. Government is accepted as a means to regulate Un-social relations — and maintain peaceful stability. Compare Jefferson Davis — Abraham Lincoln. Which person worked to stabilize peaceful relations of the Union? Which person instigated Continental conflagration?
Apply the wisdom of Dale Carnegie, instead of attempting to imitate the atavistic animal behavior of barbaric, primitive humans. Human Nature is capable of  Reason. Great Leaders persuade their admirers to be productive and peaceful.   Honorable leaders defend against attack. Wisdom— is the ability to identify the Instigator of  Attack, from the Defender of  Liberty.
“ The Roots of  War,” chapter two, of  the book by Ayn Rand: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, identifies this  difference.   “ Statism— in fact and in principle— is  nothing more than gang rule. A dictatorship is a gang devoted to looting the effort of the citizens of its own country.”   Andrew Jackson used the Tariff of Abominations to repay the national debt. We continue to  clean up after Aggressive Democracy.

Meating of the Minds? Morrill Tariff,
Politics of Slavery, TaxJudas.com
LandGrab.us