PLEONASM
“Un-Sinkable”
Molly Brown
would
Flounder
if she
got hooked
on
Thymology.
Exalted
Ambulation
between a
Pair O’Docks
seems almost trivial.
“Give
a man a
fish,” I have read.
I proffer a
Haddock
to the reader.
Thymology is
the Study of Actions Performed
to learn the Judgments of value which motivated
plans to realize wishes and desires.
Hannibal
went across the Alpine Mountains with elephants.
Why did he choose that route to Rome?
Abraham Lincoln spoke often
and clearly: Emancipate enslaved Black People!
Why did he wait?— four years,
after he became the 16th President
in 1861, before writing the proposal
to offer
$400 million,
to buy the
freedom of slaves?
(Letter dated
Feb. 5, 1865.)
Why did Lincoln
write letters to state governors,
“to rally
political support for”
the proposed Amendment
to add a
Constitutional Right
to own Slaves?
His letter to the Governor of Florida
is dated
March 16,
twelve days
after his
Inauguragtion.
(March 4,
1861.)
Why did sanctimonious
Senators and
unregenerate,
reprehensible Representatives,
reveal their priority
for rapacious
Tax Revenue,
by proscribing Tariff Nullification
and proffering protection of
Slave Ownership?
Reviled
Southern States
did not ratify this
carnivorous
compromise,
and submit to
Morrill
Tariff Servitude.
“Show me
the Money!”,
is the obvious priority of President Lincoln.
Confederate States
Seceded to protect Slavery
and Nullify Trebled Tariff Taxation
(37%, later raised
to 47%).
Seceded Slave States
were invited
to accept
only one
of their two goals,
and avoid destructive conflict.
Thymology
reveals the progeny of
Sammael,
by their proclivity
for increased Tariff revenue, and
13th
perversity:
proposed
slavery preservation
(Enacted March 2,
1861).
Why did
Abolitionists
remain silent
about condign Congressmen and Senators—
who voted for that proposed
13thAmendment?
Legislators
reveal their Slavery preference
by their eagerness
to bribe seceded Southern States:
to gain
Tariff revenue.
Southerners were
denounced as traitors—
for
seceding
from the Union to keep Black People
enslaved.
They revealed their courage
by their refusal to accept the bribe,
and resist the tyrrany of the majority.
We honor
this same principle and courage
in those patriots who revolted
against British domination
and taxation.
LIFE OF
SALMON PORTLAND CHASE. by J.W. Schuckers. 1874.
Page
236.
“THE
situation,
military and financial, at the beginning of
the year 1862, was
gloomy and
inauspicious.”
“The whole course
of the Trent transactions had been a sore wound
to the national pride.
Men of all parties felt that England
had conducted them in a characteristic spirit
of insult and menace.
The history of this
‘affair’ is brief:
On the 8th of
November, 1861,
Captain
Charles Wilkes—
commanding the sloop-of-war
San Jacinto,
then cruising in the Bahama Channel—
forcibly detained the English mail-steamer:
Trent, and took from aboard of her
James M. Mason and John Slidell,
who were making their way to England as emissaries
of the Confederate Government.”
Page
237.
“The news of this capture
was received in the United States
with pride and exultation;
in England with a storm of anger.
The British flag, it was almost universally declared,
had been insulted and outraged,
and a reparation must be exacted
as ample as the offense had been great.
Her Majesty’s Government was prompt
to action; it was
instantly as industrious in preparing
for war as if war had been
actually declared.”
The British minister—
“Lord Lyons was instructed to exact
not only the immediate release of the
Confederate emissaries,”
(within seven days)
“but an ample apology also.”
“Not exceeding seven days!
On this occasion,
at any rate,
Mr. Lincoln’s Government was uncommonly efficient,
and in six days Mason and Slidell
were delivered up.”
“There was little
in the military situation at that time
to compensate for the
deep humiliation
of the Trent business.
Quite otherwise indeed. Nothing at all
had been accomplished; . . .”
“The public heart
was sore and restless; and a great clamor
suddenly arose.
A victim was needed.
The administration of the War Department
was famously
incompetent; . . .”
“Mr. Lincoln
promptly seized an opportunity
he had long wished;
he sent a note of three lines
to Mr. Cameron; informing him that
the President had made up his mind
to accept his
(Mr. Cameron’s) resignation
as Secretary of War.
Mr. Cameron, however,
had not offered any resignation,
either verbal or written.
But he went out of office,
and was succeeded
on the 13th
of January
by Edwin M. Stanton.”
Page
314.
“The prospect
of a civil war
near at hand had occasioned
a large falling off
in the
income from customs,
even before Mr. Lincoln’s
inauguration.
The actual presence of war
operated still more
calamitously upon the revenues from
this Source.”
“Additional methods
of permanent revenue were necessary;
and accordingly the
Internal Revenue Bureau
was created by an act of Congress,
approved by the President July 1, 1862.
The germ of this bureau will be found
in the act of
August 5, 1861,”
“for the
levy of a direct tax
of twenty millions,
and the appointment of Federal officers
for its assessment
and collection.”
Page
322.
“Meantime,
the rapid and extraordinary advance
in the prices of cotton and tobacco especially,”
“excited an eager cupidity,
and a multitude of daring speculators
engaged in the trade.
Cotton (middling) sold in
December, 1860,
at ten cents a pound;
in December, 1861,
it had advanced to 28 cents;
December, 1862, it sold at
68 cents;
in December, 1863, it had risen to 84 cents;
and in 1865 it had reached
the extraordinary figure of
120 cents
per pound!
It is not an astonishing circumstance,
therefore, that the prospect of sudden fortune
made in cotton, attracted into that traffic
thousands of bold and adventurous men.
They infested the armies
and corrupted the army officers.
They penetrated through our own military lines
into the enemy’s country,
and communicated Information
and furnished rebels
with supplies.”
Page
323.
“General Grant,
in a letter written to Mr. Chase
on the 21st of July, 1863,
from his headquarters at Vicksburg,
said:
‘ My experience in West Tennessee
is that any trade whatever
with the rebellious States is weakening us
to at least 33 per cent.
of our force.
No matter what the restrictions thrown around trade,
if any whatever is allowed,
it will be made the means of supplying to the enemy
what they want. Restrictions, if lived up to,
make trade unprofitable, and hence
none but dishonest men go into it.
I venture to say that
no honest man has made money
in West Tennessee in the last year,
while many fortunes have been
made there during
that time.’ ”
Page
239.
“Mr. Thaddeus Stevens,
representing the paper-money idea
in its simplest form, proposed the issue of
United States notes
to an amount adequate to the wants of the Treasury,
which should be receivable
in payment of Government dues
of every kind, be a legal tender
in payment of all debts
both public
and private.”
Page
243.
Mr. Chase, submitted
House bill No. 240,
“to authorize the issue of
United States notes, . . .
and for funding the floating debt of the
United States.”
Page
245.
House bill No. 240,
“did not command the
unanimous support of the friends of the Administration,
and was solidly opposed by the Democrats.
It encountered a violent hostility and opposition
in both Houses; the harshest denunciations
being showered upon it by
leading Republicans.
Some of these will now be read with interest.
Page
246.
“Mr. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont
(then in the House
of Representatives):
‘ I should
feel that I utterly failed
in the discharge of
my duty, if I
did not find a
stronger prop for the
country than this measure—
a measure not blessed
by one sound precedent,
and damned
by all! ’
‘ I protest against
making any thing
a legal tender
but gold and silver,
as calculated
to undermine
all confidence in
the republic.’ ”
“Mr. Roscoe Conkling, of New York
(then in the House):
‘ It will
proclaim throughout the country
a saturnalia
of fraud;
a carnival
of rogues.’ ”
“Mr. Owen Lovejoy:
‘ it
is not in the
power of
any legislative body to make
something out of
nothing.’ ”
“Mr. Thaddeus Stevens:
‘ The measure is one of necessity
and not of choice.
No one would willingly issue paper currency
not redeemable
on demand
and make it a legal tender.’ ”
Page
247.
“Mr. Fessenden,
in the Senate
‘ It is, in my judgment,
a confession of bankruptcy.’ ”
‘To say that,
notes thus issued
shall be receivable
in payment of all private obligations is,
in its very essence, a wrong,
for it compels one man
to take from his neighbor
in payment of a debt
that which he would not otherwise receive
or be obliged to receive,
and what is not probably
full payment.’ ”
“Mr. Sumner,
in the Senate
‘ Is it necessary,
to incur all the unquestionable
evils
of inconvertible paper,
forced into circulation
by act of Congress—’
‘ to teach debtors
everywhere that contracts
may be varied
at the will of
the stronger? ’ ”
Page
248.
House bill No. 240,
with provisions added by the Senate,
“Became a law
on the
25th of February, 1862.”
“
The first thing we do,
let’s kill all
the lawyers! ”
The State of
FRANKLIN
was formed
in August, 1784.
“A convention met at Jonesboro
and formed a new State, with a constitution
providing that
lawyers, doctors and preachers
should never be members of the legislature;
but the people rejected it”.
“The North Carolina act
had subjected them to the payment of taxes
to the United States government.
At the same time, there was no relaxation of Indian hostilities.
Under these circumstances, the great body of people
west of the Alleghenies concluded”
“to adopt a constitution and
organize a State government of their own.
This they proceeded to do.”
(McGhee’s History of Tennessee.)
“Not until March 31st
did the Assembly remember that the formal
ties . . .
with North Carolina had not yet
been broken.”
“That same day . . .
an act declaring that
Franklin was a free and independent
state, . . .”
“Governor Sevier signed the measure
that same day.
According to North Carolina wits,
the act did not become law
until April 1st,
which, they declared,
‘makes Franklin
the biggest April Fools’ Day jest
in all history.’ ”
FRANKLIN
America’s “Lost State”
Page 77.
“Franklinites,
like all Americans, wanted a sharp division
in the powers of state and church,
so a clause in the permanent constitution
specified that
no minister of the gospel
could hold a seat in the state legislature
or accept public office.
At the same time, however,
every citizen was guaranteed full religious liberty
and the right to worship as he pleased.
The Reverend Hezekiah Balch and the Reverend Samuel Houston
(uncle of the future Governor of Tennessee),
took exception to that clause
in the proposed constitution.
Page 78.
“The two ministers
launched a furious attack on the provision,
and some of the more devout delegates supported them.
Their stand drove the advocates of the separation
of state and church powers into a frenzy,
and the debate became violent.
Men exchanged personal insults
on the floor of the convention,
challenged each other to duels and
on two or three occasions
had fist fights.”
Page 79.
“When the issue
was put to a vote,
the advocates of the separation of church and state
won an easy victory.”
The “oldest authentic copy
of the Constitution of the
United States”
was discovered
“In the winter of 1983.”
“This document included a 13th Amendment
that no longer appears on current copies
of the Constitution.”
“The principle intent of this
‘Missing’
13th Amendment,
was to prohibit lawyers from serving
in government.”
“The old general rule was that
educated people did not perform manual labor.
They managed to eat their bread,
leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated.
This was not an insupportable evil
to the working bees, so long as
the class of drones remained very small.
But now, especially in these free States,
nearly all are educated—
quite too nearly all, to leave the labor
of the uneducated,
in any wise
adequate to the support of the whole.
It follows from this that henceforth
educated people must labor.
Otherwise, education itself
would become a positive and intolerable evil.
No country can sustain,
in idleness, more than
a small percentage of its numbers.
The great majority must labor at
something productive.”
--From the September 30, 1859
Address by Abraham Lincoln,
before the
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.
“The will of God prevails.
In great contests each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be,
and one must be,
wrong.”
--From the September 1862
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