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Originally Posted by blueash
There are a few sources some very localized, some very limited. If you are interested in New York State try Old Fulton NY Post Cards The search is a bit quirky and it can be slow to load but it is full of good stuff.
For a wider view of the nation, including the source I used here, Chronicling America << Library of Congress which is the library of congress, the loc in the web address.
There are pay to use websites also. Some public libraries have subscriptions. My hometown library allows me to keep my account and has online some of the big ones like NY Times. If you have a particular state or location using a local library or a state archives is a great place to start.
As to why did I post, as I wrote I thought it was interesting. I like history and primary sources can present the feelings of the people much better than what we think they must have believed. Frankly when I read it, I had a wow moment at the casualness of how they thought about the slaves and the issue of slavery. In many of the articles they use the word "institution" to mean slavery and saw the Compromise of 1850 as one of the great accomplishments of government. |
They knew what they are. We delude ourselves.
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Originally Posted by Rockyrd
And thanks to .......we have large amounts of people defending those new ways to be hateful, and endorsing them in the name of something.
Civil discourse and compromise have gone by the wayside I am afraid.
HOWEVER, keep in mind that those examples you gave..everyone of them started with TALK and speeches preaching the hate. That speech was the pre cursor in each case.
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Compromise means BOTH sides lose. Compromise, like diversity, is NOT a good thing. The weak push for compromise.
You want to ban speech? Who gets to decide what we can and can't say?