so whigs all over the country. this is a president election year, after all assemble at these mass meetings to say it wasn't the whigs, it wasn't us. we don't oppose immigration. that's when lincoln is called on to write his first resolution on or not on immigration. and he says that foreigners and catholics should have a path to citizenship that is as convenient, cheap and expeditious just as possible. he publicly varies from that view. but as the whig party fades, i think not only overstay slavery and their inaction on slavery, but also their confusion on immigration. why were they hostile to foreigners and catholics for a very expedient reason. irish immigrants, the democratic party? because the democratic party embraced them. what came first? the embrace, the joining? i don't know, but it was mutually beneficial at that point for the preponderant number of irish to join the democrat hands by the 1850s, the horrendous no nothing movement has gripped the united states lodges, secret lodges up across the country,

had an opposition party in 18 in the late 1850s after the whig party died nationally.o people continue it on in terms of those old ways and so you know when secession happened there were an awful lot of people out there that were willing to stand up and say, hey, you know, i don't know if clay would like this, you know, and so they're they're concerned about this, but it spread it's spread at the local level and spread i think if you look at a congressional map, u.s. or confederate and lay it over the confederacy writ large, you understand a lot more about dissent within the south than the pushback the confederacy from within. one more question. okay i don't know if you agree with my concept, but there was a movie few years ago called the free state of jones with matthew mcconaughey. wonderful movie. yes, it. and i want to hear your on that movie of where they were unionists in mississippi who fought against the confederacy that that film was advised by a good friend of mine victoria, bynum, who wrote a book called the free state of jones, which was supported by a nati

whig party had an opposition party in the late 1850s after the whig party died nationally so people continued on in terms of those -- when the succession happened a lot of people were willing to say i don't know if henry clay would elect this but it spread at the local level. i think if you look at her congressional district map, us or confederate, and lay it over the confederacy writ large you understand a lot more about the sense in the south and the pushback from within. >> don't know if you agree with my concept but there was a movie called the free state of jones with matthew mcconaughey. i want your comments on that movie where there were unionists who fought against the confederacy. >> that was advised by a friend of mine, the free state of jones provided by national endowment for the humanities. if you look at lower mississippi, you are seeing scotsman, that is the county seat of the county he's talking about. there's a kind of pan movement of people who were pushing against conscription, free blacks, people who band together in that fight and it is a little more complex. it is simila

. >> and we have things like that going back to 1844 from the whig convention in baltimore. >> reporterur years ago o'so they could participate virtually during the pandemic. >> you got your credentials and you got a little bottle of confetti i guess if you wanted to throw it in your home while you were watching the convention online. >> reporter: old press passes plenty of posters and a homemade pineapple hat worn in 1996 by fans of bob dole. get it? >> the hats are really useful because they're not manufactured by the parties. they really are an insight into the workings of one individual. >> reporter: jerry explains why they keep what so often would otherwise get tossed away. why is it so important to preserve it? >> i think the objects are really important because somebody used them. it's not just something they watched on television but it's something they wore or they carried and it meant something to them. >> that was ed o'keefe hunting political treasure. stick around. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. (granddaughter laughing) when pain freezes you in your tracks... ...vapo

they were all whigs all on a different degree, a different spectrum. when we get on to the people who want to become patriots, they're a little bit more radical. but alliances think staying within the british empire, using the british empire, is going to benefit new yorkers and it's almost exclusively through trade. they want to make sure that new york is set up as the most profitable center in the colonies, not not philadelphia. and new yorkers are generally ordinary new yorkers really buy into this because during the 1750s, during the seven years war of the french and indian war, the british army is headquartered in the city. there's a lot of royal navy ships there. there's a lot of money flowing the city. when the war ends in 1763 and the soldiers and the sailors leave, it dries up. people in new york remember this the day losses are trying to return new york city to sort of past glory maybe not glory might not be the right word, but prosperity. and to do this, they to rely on they want to rely on experience as merchants saying that we are merchants

buteo you also get a lot peoplen north carolina who have never left the whig party really at heart.orth carolina had an opposition party died nationally. people continued on when secession happened there are an awful lot of people willing to stand up and say i don't know if henry clay would've liked this. until they ared concerned about this it spread at the localal level i think if you look at a congressional district map u.s. or confederate and laid it over the confederacy at large you understand a lot more about dissent within the south and the pushback against confederacy from within. or summer question. >> don't know if you agree with my concept that there is a movie a few years ago called the free state of jones with matthew mcconnaughhay. >> a wonderful movie. >> yes. i would hear comments on that movie over there it unionist in mississippi click that film was advised by good friend of mine on free state of jones supported by national endowment for humanities grant. if any of you watch hdtv in lower mississippi, have you ever seen scotsman or laura mercantile that's the count

that's it's not a western monopoly and it's also not rooted only in the stoics, the literature shows it whig literature, the civic republican literature. most extraordinary thing about living today is that all these documents are online and sitting on my couch. i could first of all, access them. it just i have to say, you know, here we were last night in the library of congress in the thomas jefferson building, i think we both think is the most beautiful, sacred building in washington. and when i was a kid, i was so of wonder with my winter, with my mom at the thought that all the books in the world were in that beautiful space and. now they're on my phone. it just blows my mind that any moment of the day i can access all books in the world. all i need is the to read them. but then with words, as i was able to see the phrase the pursuit of happiness occurs in all the documents that i just mentioned, this not some esoteric thing that thomas plucked out of nowhere. it's all of these ancient eastern and wisdom and western sources. so how does it evolve the basic idea of happiness, self-mastery,

. >> he's a whig, >> he's a whig, >> mine is the bma, the bma. >> mine is the bma, the bma. >> good.hat's right . >> that's right. >> that's right. >> exactly that the bma for just being bloody minded activists. >> all right. go on jonathan. >> all right. go on jonathan. >> mine is president macron someone that to the left and right can unite to hate . yeah. right can unite to hate. yeah. because he has he has basically begun some kind of coup in france . and i think we should be france. and i think we should be talking about it more. basically they had french parliamentary elections a couple of months ago, and he's basically disregarded the results. and that's and that's outrageous. >> no, it is , it is. i've gone >> no, it is, it is. i've gone for the bma now. i do feel as though i should have gone for macron, actually. but anyway, there we go. could not be winning. both. yes thank you very much everybody. another thoroughly enjoyable show. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody who's watched and listened. it's headliners next to ta

that's it's not a western monopoly and it's also not rooted only in the stoics, the literature shows it whig literature, the civic republican literature. most extraordinary thing about living today is that all these documents are online and sitting on my couch. i could first of all, access them. it just i have to say, you know, here we were last night in the library of congress in the thomas jefferson building, i think we both think is the most beautiful, sacred building in washington. and when i was a kid, i was so of wonder with my winter, with my mom at the thought that all the books in the world were in that beautiful space and. now they're on my phone. it just blows my mind that any moment of the day i can access all books in the world. all i need is the to read them. but then with words, as i was able to see the phrase the pursuit of happiness occurs in all the documents that i just mentioned, this not some esoteric thing that thomas plucked out of nowhere. it's all of these ancient eastern and wisdom and western sources. so how does it evolve the basic idea of happiness, self-mastery,

american generation and those who later formed the constitution, inherited many ideas from the british whigradition, the british liberalism tradition, from the tumult of the 17th century. and they agreed, john locke, that not only was private a right, they viewed it as an essential right. the protection which which was at the very heart of civil society and the american revolution was in many respects an article nation of this lockean proposition in the declaration of independence, jefferson famously wrote, of course, protecting the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness were the essential of government. but a couple just a little ways down south. george mason wrote in the preamble to the virginia declaration of rights that men enter into a state of society for the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means, and if acquire, and possessing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety and the bill of rights, as was discussed in the previous panel, has multiple protection for property rights, particularly in establishing the principle of due as a necessary condition, th