tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70462100780890192952024-03-13T00:08:09.092-04:00Patriot Tours New York City HistoryInteresting stuff I find while conducting research for my historic walking tours.Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-88737351667071640522013-02-25T11:53:00.001-05:002013-02-25T12:06:32.242-05:00Senator Sumner 1856On May 22, 1856 Congressman Preston Brooks entered the US Senate chamber and infamously beat MA Senator Preston Sumner with his cane. Sine I am always cynical about history books I decided to find a copy of Senator Sumner's speech "The Crime Against Kansas" that so angered Congressman Brooks. (Sumner was signing copies of the speech when Brooks confronted him.) Besides being typical political rhetoric designed to inflame the emotions of the North against the South, to Sumner's political advantage, it personally insulted Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler. So now I'm not so sympathetic toward Sumner.<br />
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Here's the whole thing: <a href="http://www.patriottoursnyc.com/prints/SumnerKansas.pdf" target="_blank">The Crime Against Kansas</a>.<br />
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<br />Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-56696087189920515802013-02-13T13:16:00.002-05:002013-02-13T13:16:51.846-05:00The New York Gazette, December 9, 1765<br />
A <span class="userContent">letter from the Sons of Liberty in Boston to
the merchants and traders of NYC, thanking them for continuing to
boycott all trade with Great Britain in protest of the Stamp Act.<br /> <br />
"...bless the day that this amazing act, with all its horrors, was
passed, for by it they have at once awakened a whole continent..."</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">Official resignation of the NYC Stamp Agent,
James McEvers. Sworn to Isaac Sears and Joseph Allicocke, leaders of
the NYC Sons of Liberty.</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> </span>Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-84208189765995633812013-02-12T13:41:00.001-05:002013-02-12T13:41:57.259-05:00Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)Last week I had the pleasure of speaking before the NYC Chapter of the DAR. They are a fantastic group of women, raising and donating money to many different charities and causes, including the post Hurricane Sandy reconstruction of the Fraunces Tavern. Many thanks to them for inviting me to speak!Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-36722732842108934782012-09-28T15:00:00.003-04:002012-09-28T15:00:48.692-04:00I love Financial History!Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting the President and CEO of the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street. Among many fascinating items I viewed the very first Treasury Bill to be issued. Done during the Jefferson administration by Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, it raised money to complete the Louisiana Purchase. Ironically, it was issued to a British bank. So financing came from England in order to pay Napoleon who then used the money to fight England.<br /><br />I highly recommend a visit to MOAF if you are or will be in NYC! Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-71729591515512273692012-08-28T19:22:00.001-04:002012-08-28T19:22:43.130-04:00Another Great American Tradition: Fiat Currency"Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, <b>the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690</b>." - A History of Money and Banking in the United States, Murray N. Rothbard<br />
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And that's all you really need to know about the history of American Finance.Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-58623380919141621972012-08-26T12:08:00.001-04:002012-08-26T12:08:30.710-04:00Fear does things so like a witch....'Tis hard to distinguish which is which.<br />
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Joseph Plumb Martin, then 16 years old, relates the panic among the American troops as they were about to face the overwhelming British invasion in Brooklyn, August 23, 1776.<br />
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"I saw a Lieutenant who appeared to have feelings not very enviable... for he ran round among the men of his company, sniveling and blubbering, praying each one if he had aught against him, or if he had injured any one that they would forgive him, declaring at the same time that he, from his heart, forgave them if they had offended him, and I gave him full credit for his assertion; for had he been at the gallows with a halter about his neck, he could not have shown more fear or penitence."Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-63639141905885920312012-08-23T15:51:00.001-04:002012-08-23T15:52:36.189-04:00Gen Howe's Retirement or Tilt and Tournament according to the rules of ancient chivalryIn 1778 General (Sir) William Howe asked to be relieved of command. The army was at Philadelphia when the news was received that King George III granted his wish. In celebration the Royal Officers engaged in a few weeks of "Tilt and Tournament" in the manner of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I kid you not. The story starts midway down page 241:<br />
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3X8FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=american+revolution+thomas+jones&source=bl&ots=_dh45_-PJa&sig=UOEs4Dg81FMqyTXcSpDMwJ6MfY4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hQo1UJS3DKP66QHh3oCYDw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">"Upon the suspension of Sir William Howe,,,"</a><br />
<br />Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-11729536763123638042012-08-22T14:44:00.001-04:002012-08-24T11:51:59.922-04:00Female PatriotTo those ladies still drinking tea while their husbands were protesting the tea tax:<br />
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<br />Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-66807304472486744842012-08-22T13:05:00.000-04:002012-08-22T13:05:05.824-04:00Google BooksThere are some great books about NYC history before and during the American Revolution available for download from google books.<br />
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<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3X8FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=american+revolution+thomas+jones&source=bl&ots=_dh45_-PJa&sig=UOEs4Dg81FMqyTXcSpDMwJ6MfY4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hQo1UJS3DKP66QHh3oCYDw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=american%20revolution%20thomas%20jones&f=false" target="_blank">History of New York During the Revolutionary War (Tory or Loyalist experience)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=RWnQeNBM8t4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+peter+zenger+his+press+his+trial&source=bl&ots=T_zYCb94lW&sig=lElcs7DuC3sDPVzNqm6px98NUs8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-gs1UIb8KeGO6gHK3YDQAw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=john%20peter%20zenger%20his%20press%20his%20trial&f=false" target="_blank">John Peter Zenger, His Press, His Trial</a></li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ZCIWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">The Memorial History of the City of New-York vol 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=t1xMEp7LtO4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+sons+of+liberty+in+new+york&source=bl&ots=KT11vopGSo&sig=i22D4MC9KezYUY9sG7KjCZ2ZWCw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CBE1ULrQEtKl6AGxiIGICA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20sons%20of%20liberty%20in%20new%20york&f=false" target="_blank">The Sons of Liberty in New York (NY Historical Society)</a></li>
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Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-23811528533427801002012-08-22T12:29:00.001-04:002012-08-22T13:07:03.638-04:00On Whigs and Tories"Adam Smith believed that all governments in the world could be reduced to just two-monarchies and republics-and that these were rooted in two basic types of personalities: monarchists, who loved peace and order, and republicans, who loved liberty and independence."* Jefferson thought "the sickly, weakly, timid man, fears the people and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold, cherishes them, is formed a Whig by nature."**<br />
* Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution<br />
** The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (New York, 1898)<br />
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<br />Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046210078089019295.post-68680994486169158762012-08-22T12:21:00.000-04:002012-08-22T13:07:31.968-04:00Welcome!I'm always finding stuff that I think is great to add to my tours but am disappointed that previous customers don't get the benefit of this new info. I decided to start a blog to share these bits. So, here goes...Karen Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043145861478908193noreply@blogger.com0