and the other is charles adams, the cartoonist. i have a big stack of old charles adams books, of cartoon collections and i just flip through those. and he's also just so delightful, strange and funny. there's something that is like those two, it's just like conflict a switch in me, you know? >> and i also would ask, i'm doing a lot of research on my family. i'm part cherokee. the rest very slavic. but are you thinking about the book? on, there's so many books on you. well, there's not enough, not the way that congress is going right now. but have you thought -- >> about the cherokee? oh, i did write one very long essay about the trail of tears. it's in one of my essay collections. so i doubt i would revisit that. but there is a little bit, you know, i do revisit some of the history of that tried in this hawaii book just because it's the same organization in boston, the american board of commissioners for foreign missions, the group that sent missionaries to hawaii. they're also the group that sent missionaries to the cherokee nati

it wouldn't have taken that much for se to provide a letter that charles adams, the u.s.mbassadors, could have shown lord john russell in private saying we can only talk about the war in terms of the union, but, no, as you and i know, this is a war ultimately about slavery. >> host: which they do say, but it takes awhile. >> guest: two year, and that's a long time in the war. >> host: absolutely. on the other hand, lincoln sent anti-slavery consuls to england. one of the leading abolitionists of illinois was sent over to bristol, i think, and lincoln, a shrewd guy, saw that sending an abolitionist as a consul, not ambassador, would help appeal to british public opinion. there was sort of strange cross-currents going on with some people talking about slavery and others not talking about slavery, but one of the very interesting things in your book is tracing out how british sympathizers of the confederacy kept saying, oh, you know, if the confederacy wins, they abolish slavery. no one was willing to defend slavery. in fact, if the confederacy is independent, britain will th

. >> guest: -- dispatches o charles foster adams. but that was because sumner had told him to. >> host: uh-huh. >> guest: there's a myth that lincoln said, oh, we must only have one war at a time. [laughter] but i personally never found a contemporary account of that. >> host: yeah. >> guest: so i -- >> host: and there are many quotations from lincoln floating around which probably never originated with lincoln. >> guest: yes. i mean, he might have said it, might have thought it and, certainly, a practical thought at the time if anyone had asked my opinion. >> host: right. >> guest: but i don't think he said that. at least not to seward. >> host: i haven't seen it specifically quoted directly at the moment, at the time. but, no, lincoln did seem to -- he had a cabinet which he allowed a great deal of leeway. he left the financial issues to secretary of the treasury chase, he left, i think as you say, he basically left foreign relations to seward. he kept military affairs under his direct control and the slavery issue under his direct

show broadcast from an autonomous seasteading colony charles prolly seasteading institute dot org thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you adam. right remember curfews yeah in the quaint good old days when children were raised more by parents then government bureaucrats parents could dictate what times were appropriate for their children to be out right now parents in philadelphia you don't have to worry about that because the government has stepped up to do your job for you. up in philly big brother is out to keep those mischievous little miners safe from selves and why not as my political idol hill dog clinton always says it takes a village to raise a child and in this case the village elder merrill michael nutter is instituting a nine pm curfew for all human beings under the age of eighteen in the center city and university city regions of philadelphia so what does this mean well if you're a miner out past sundown the figure men are on the lookout for you if they catch you could be a fine ride in a patrol car or even legal action for mommy and daddy the curfew was in response to the rising problem of violent sudden you fue

so british chancellor of the exchequer, charles townsend, the equivalent of murder secretary of treasury, came up with a scheme to counter the adams otis argument of taxation without representation. he would no longer tax americans. he was shipped the goods. class, led, paint, paper and t. he weaves and that duties would be less painful for ordinary americans who could avoid paying them by simply using homemade substitutes. farmers and their families and 95% of americans were lived on farms. they already produce most of their own clothes, their own pottery, wooden utensils and tools that many of the other things they needed. the people most affected by import duties for the wealthy who loved their beautiful british and european furniture and furnishings, their wines and their fancy gourmet foodstuffs. so when the british impose duties to pay for the war, and the duties affect it the richest colonials, not the poor or the middle classes. it affected those who are profiting most from the war, the ship owners, merchants, bank owners. although the towns in active-duty status that ordinary americans, they infuriated the rich merchants

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