John Keegan

[fullautovalmet76]

Tom,
Is there any truth to the story about a free Dartmouth education to the residents of Hanover? If there is, why don't you move to Hanover and take advantage of that?

I think you would be a great historian/political scientist. And you and Quaker can spend endless hours debating key events in our history, such as the bank collapse under Andrew Jackson.

Speaking of which, who do you think caused it? Nicholas Biddle or Andrew Jackson? I wrote a term paper in high school about it and I chose Jackson, but I can't remember all of the reasons why......

-FullAuto

[tombogan03884]

No work up there even when things are good, the only things there are the hospital and the school.
I am not up on financial history but at a wild guess (and with out research ) I would blame Biddle because he was tied into the NY banking interests and they were notorious for their predatory speculations through most of America's history, particularly in land.

[Clark Kent]

My interest in the Civil War has been largely with the military side - strategy, tactics and personalities - but my Civil War desk calendar's item for this weekend is a quote from then Alabama Gov. A. B. Moore, questioning the constitutionality of Lincoln's insistence that secession was illegal.  Here's the quote:

"Has Alabama the right peacefully to withdraw from the Union, without subjecting herself to any rightful authority of the federal government to coerce her into the Union?  Of her right to do so, I have no doubt.  She is a sovereign state, and retains every right and power not delegated to the federal government in the written constitution.  That government has no powers, except such as we are delegated in the constitution, or such as are necessary to carry these powers into execution. 

"The federal government was established for the protection, and not for destruction or injury of constitutional rights."