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Lewis Clephane, founder of the Republican Party: "In those days it was a crime to be called a Republican, and every man who was then known as a Republican was denounced as an Abolitionist. We have fought the battle." Its first platform: 1/
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Clephane recounts fears of insurrectionists almost prevented Lincoln's inaugural parade; the party prevailed. He also notes how an insurrectionist mob attacked the Republican "Wide Awakes." Yes, woke. Ironies aplenty. 2/
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I came to this researching his younger brother, James, for my book on the Linotype. Here is a fascinating biographic sketch of Lewis Clephane by his son: 3/
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Lewis Clephane in Washington: "The Republicans of this city, surrounded as they were by dangers on every hand, threatened, vilified, abused, and ostracised by their fellow-citizens, stood firm, fearless, and true to their principles." 4/
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I tag Joe Scarborough & Nicolle Wallace here because they often speak about the dissolution of their former party. It is worthwhile to contrast the GOP of today not just to the GOP of Reagan & Eisenhower, but also to the party's roots in the principles of Abolition. 5/
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I think once Trump kicks it the power struggle within the Republican party will be damned fun to watch. I wonder what percentage of the party is still never trump or agnostic.
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Note media's role in the birth of the Republican Party. The abolitionist newspaper National Era (Clephane was its business manager) lent its pages to the cause. Clephane then founded a paper: The National Republican. American news media, too, once stood on such principles. 6/
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One more note here: The role Lewis Clephane & the National Era took in the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. (BTW, I came to all this because I'm researching his brother James' role in the invention of the Linotype. I love these research rabbit holes.) 7/
My father always felt very happy in the fact that he was instrumental in putting before the world the novel which has since become so famous, " Uncle Tom's Cabin." It was the custom of Dr. Bailey, the editor of the Era, to send about Christmas time, to various persons of literary habits, small checks with the suggestion that the recipients write stories for the Era. Mrs. Stowe's name was mentioned to the management of the paper by Salmon P. Chase as being a lady in straitened circumstances, who could perhaps contribute something to the columns of that journal. A check was sent to her, with the result that she com- menced to write this story, which appeared in serial form in the National Era. At first she had no idea of writing a novel of anything like the length in which it finally appeared; but the interest it created was so tremendous that, like Topsy herself, it "growed." The first number appeared in the issue of June 1, 1851 ; and the last in the issue of April 1, 1852. I have in my possession a letter written by Mrs. Stowe to my fathe
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I suspect "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a book many know about but few have actually read. It's fascinating. The characters are rather wooden, but it's full of fascinating details about slavery that I never knew -- like the fact that southern ladies who were too genteel to whip their slaves could outsource the job to "whipping houses."
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My father was a Linotypist. He learned that trade using GI Bill benefits at the end of World War II. He was a sailor in that war. I was a soldier in the Vietnam War.
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Well, I got more reading to catch up on. Thanks for sharing this

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Note well that the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who will prosecute the alleged attempted assassin of Donald Trump, is Markenzy Lapointe, a Marine Gulf War veteran and immigrant who was born in ... Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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I thought the same exact thing this has to just make him cringe, but he’s a professional and he’s doing his job

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TikTok’s court hearing began today on a possible ban or sale of the app in the U.S.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.

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Laura Loomer insists she and Donald Trump are very close.

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Viet Nam: One Commune One Product programme reduces the urban–rural divide.

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@veer66 hopefully Thailand can find its way back to that one day
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The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist has just been announced: the 2 I’m interested in are Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Woods and Orbital by Samantha Harvey #bookstodon @bookstodon

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I love Bill Hader.
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Bill Hader is so good at doing impressions because he went to a weird Catholic school where the nuns would hit him if he spoke in his own voice.

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A Twitter thread, with someone posting images of Premier Cherdenko from red alert 3, voice acting in caps, referencing a funny cutscene video. I'M ESCAPING TO THE ONE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT HASN'T BEEN CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM PUBLIC TOILET GRAFFITI

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#RedEyes #GreatDemonUprising #1980s
Still from the TV series "Supernatural" featuring Mark Pellegrino as the character Lucifer. In the photo, Lucifer has red eyes, & the caption to the meme reads:- "When a millenial asks why everyone in old photos have red eyes I tell them they were too young to remember the great demon uprising of the 1980s".
#redeyes #1980s #greatdemonuprising

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▶️ The 13th DC South Asian Film Festival brings the community together with films from seven countries in 11 languages. Featuring renowned industry figures, it also provides a platform for independent filmmakers to present films rarely seen on the big screen.

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Tim Pool lays loose noose around skatepark organisers who wouldn’t take the prize money he went and offered without talking to the organisers.

He then proceeded to buy the land the skatepark is on and another lot close by.

No wonder Russians like him, he behaves exactly like them.

But I’ll say it, anyone who tries to own #skateboarding community is a loser. They just don’t know it yet. 😉🤟

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Not #sailing #weather!
#Weather #sailing
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Pretty much the same here. Small crafts tomorrow though! Then winds 10-15 kts rest of the week. Of course, rest of the week will also be mostly rainy. Boooo

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Flooding is affecting North Carolina as #PTC8 dumps heavy rain inland.

The NHC no longer expects the system to become tropical, but considerable flash and urban flooding is expected to affect parts of the Carolinas overnight.

#NCwx #SCwx #weather

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Historic rain has fallen across Carolina Beach, Southport, and BSL today. Volunteer gauges have recorded over a foot of rain since midnight.

Latest views of the flooding in #CarolinaBeach, via Jonathan Petramala.

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See Footage of a Thief Breaking Into a London Gallery and Stealing Banksy's Iconic 'Girl With Balloon'
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See 11 Breathtaking Space Images From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest
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