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Duchess Mountain Spring Domain
Spring temperatures have sprung up here in southwest Colorado and the pile-up of snow is melting throughout the San Juan valley. We had to hang the bird feeders higher to keep the raccoon and skunk raiders out. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)According to View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe Liberty Party (1840-1844)The Liberty party was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe Whig Party (United States 1833-1856)
Wikipedia definition of Whig Party -- "The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from 1833 to 1856, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the executive branch and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism. 1912 - The RMS Titanic
On April 10, 1912 (about 98 years ago today, April 10, 2010) the RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew. Four days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived. National Union Party
Wikipedia definition of the National Union Party, "The National Union Party was the name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election, held in the northern states during the Civil War. State Republican parties did not usually change their name. The temporary name was used to attract War Democrats who would not vote for the Republican Party. It nominated incumbent President Abraham Lincoln and former Democrat Andrew Johnson, who were elected in a landslide." |
Radical Republicans & Abe Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln a radical republican? -- The radicals frequently concluded that Lincoln was a prisoner of the conservative wing of the party, whereas conservatives complained that Lincoln was too close to the Radicals. But Lincoln's cautious reserve had the dual benefit of leaving open his lines of communication with both wings of the party and fragmenting his opposition. Wilmot Proviso
An important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories was a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built. Wade-Davis bill (1864)
In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln and the Congress began to consider the question of how the Union would be reunited if the North won the Civil War. In December President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of slaves. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1943-1944)
Did you set your DVR for this last Sunday evening PBS broadcast for the premiering on the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11, 2010, of the showing of "Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl?" NWOSU's Spring Alumni Reunion (24 Apri. 2010)
James Bradley reminds ALL Northwestern Oklahoma State University alumni of the upcoming NWOSU Spring Reunion, to be held on Saturday, 24th of April 2010.
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Free-Soiler Party (1848-1852)
Wikipedia defines Free-Soiler Party as a short lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections and in some state elections. It was a third party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State. Fugitive Slave Act (1850)Fugitive Slave Act, Social Issues of 1850, passed by United States congress, September 18, 1850, as part of the compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe Reconstruction Act (1867)
It was after the Civil War that the United States Congress passed four statures known as Reconstruction Acts: March 2, 1867 (39 Cong. Ch. 153; 14 Stat. 428), March 23, 1867 (40 Cong. Ch. 6; 15 Stat. 2), July 19, 1867 (40 Cong. Ch. 30; 15 Stat. 14), March 11, 1868 (ch. 25, 15 Stat. 41). Copperheads of 1860s
Copperheads of 1860s We found this definition of Copperheads which states, "Copperhead was a pejorative epithet applied to Northern members of the Democratic party, also known as Peace Democrats, who criticized the presidential administration of Abraham Lincoln for its war policies and who sought an armistice with the Confederacy. A loosely-affiliated group, the Copperheads expressed their views on the war in the press, at political conventions, and in state legislatures. 1854 Radical Republicans
The Republicans of 1854 are nothing like the Republicans of today! |
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