#abrahamlincoln — Public Fediverse posts

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

Abraham Lincoln, the Stone Troll

#sketch-a-day #art #graphite #AbrahamLincoln #lincoln #StoneTroll #troll #fantasy

Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/2186444-tom-hanks-lincoln-in-the-bardo-meryl-streep-bill-hader-cast

The USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand after Mideast deployment

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eas…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2024-2026Mideastwars #AbrahamLincoln #AsiaPacific #DanKeeler #DonaldTrump #FrankE.PetersenJr. #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Politics #RobertSmalls #Thailand #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/715632/

Thailand preps for USS Abraham Lincoln visit

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Thousands of American service members are about to descend on…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2024-2026Mideastwars #250thAnniversaryofAmericanIndependence #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #AsiaPacific #DonaldTrump #FrankE.PetersenJr. #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Politics #Thailand #Thailandgovernment #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/714222/

#Trump #DonaldTrump #America #USA #Song #UnitedStates #Rushmore #Music #MountRushmore #presidents #Washington #Jefferson #AI #Roosevelt #Lincoln #Funny #Harmony #GeorgeWashington #Video #ThomasJefferson #Viral #TheodoreRoosevelt #YouTube #AbrahamLincoln #USPol #Politics Trump’s clearly a basket case, and how can anyone possibly disagree with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arlEWzeZMxg&list=RDq0YtFs9VwBU&index=2&ra=m

Trump said his war with Iran would last weeks. It’s been 6 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrives at an awkward moment f…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #AliKhamenei #APTopNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #george-w-bush #Governmentandpolitics #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #Militaryanddefense #MohammedbinRashidAlMaktoum #Politics #RichardGoldberg #Sanctionsandembargoes #ScottBessent #Trumphub #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/708874/

Trump used to say he saw a quick end to his Iran war. Six months later, he claims he’s in no hurry

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump arrives at an awkward moment for his presidency on Friday as the U.S.-Israel…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/708633/

¿Por qué la US Navy está al límite por una guerra tan larga con Irán? #USNavy #Iran #GuerraConIran #EstadosUnidos #OrienteMedio #Geopolitica #Defensa #Portaaviones #AbrahamLincoln #GeorgeWashington #MarinaDeEstadosUnidos #ActualidadInternacional #felizdomingo #23deagosto

https://donporque.com/la-us-navy-esta-al-limite-por-la-guerra-con-iran/

Long-deployed USS Lincoln being relieved by new aircraft carrier

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Asia-based USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operati…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #Asia #BradCooper #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeH.W.Bush #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #U.S.news #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/699036/

US Navy destroyer broke down for four days in the Pacific

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy destroyer with about 300 sailors aboard suffered a major breakdown in the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #MatthewComer #Militaryanddefense #PacificOcean #RobertSmalls #U.S.DepartmentofDefense #U.S.Navy #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/696977/

US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and l…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #BryanClark #DarylCaudle #DonaldTrump #EvanSankey #FrankBradley #GeorgeWashington #gerald-ford #GregPoling #Iran #MichaelSwaine #NicolasMaduro #RobertFarley #TheodoreRoosevelt #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/692336/

Trump says USS Lincoln’s deployment ‘not nearly long enough’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailo…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #JasonCrow #Mentalhealth #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #Trumphub #U.S.RepublicanParty #UnitedStatesgovernment #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/691674/

Trump says record-setting Navy deployment to support Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring a record-setting deployment of…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWashington #Iran #JasonCrow #PeteHegseth #Politics #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/691403/

US sailors endure dire conditions on Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier

Some sailors have reportedly tried throwing themselves into the sea, basic supplies can r…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AbrahamLincoln #afp #America #California #CenterforNavalAnalyses #GeorgeWashington #iran #JonathanSchroden #MiddleEast #navy-times #PeteHegseth #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #SouthChinaSea #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USNavy #USSGeraldR.Ford
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/812931/

The Roaring Twenties

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/the-roaring-twenties/

Peer AI Review

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/peer-ai-review/

A Guide to the Gazette articles 01~50

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/a-guide-to-the-gazette-articles-0150/

The End of the Old World

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/the-end-of-the-old-world/

Wilson’s Impossible Peace

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/wilsons-impossible-peace/

The Canal Between Two Oceans

https://gotunitedstates.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-canal-between-two-oceans/

250 años de presidentes de Estados Unidos y ninguno tan destructivo como Trump

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-07-05/250-anos-de-presidentes-de-estados-unidos-y-ninguno-tan-destructivo-como-trump.html

Trump reads to children on Usha Vance’s podcast and veers off script

WASHINGTON (…
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https://www.europesays.com/3106773/

https://www.europesays.com/people/139235/ Trump reads to children on Usha Vance’s podcast and veers off script #AbrahamLincoln #BarackHusseinObama #BillClinton #children #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #GeneralNews #GeraldFord #GovernmentBudgets #HerbertHoover #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #JohnFKennedy #JohnQuincyAdams #LyndonJohnson #Politics #RichardNixon #RonaldReagan #TrumpHub #UshaVance #WashingtonNews #WilliamHowardTaft

A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

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Trump reads a children’s book on Usha Vance’s podcast, then riffs on past presidents and himself

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump joined second lady U…
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https://www.europesays.com/3105784/

https://www.europesays.com/people/138742/ Trump reads a children’s book on Usha Vance’s podcast, then riffs on past presidents and himself #AbrahamLincoln #BarackHusseinObama #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #GeraldFord #HerbertHoover #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #JohnFKennedy #JohnQuincyAdams #LyndonJohnson #Politics #RichardNixon #RonaldReagan #UshaVance #WashingtonNews #WilliamHowardTaft

Two Abrahams

Abraham Accords

Abraham Lincoln

Where's Lincoln?

http://john1126.com/708

#Abraham #AbrahamAccords #AbrahamLincoln #Israel #Iran #USA #USSAbrahamLincoln #Lincoln

Do unto others

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1960766/do-unto-others

Uncle Abe 😍

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1843732/uncle-abe

Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.
#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes #poets
https://www.sacredwonderland.us/langston-hughes-slept-here/

Langston Hughes Slept Here: A tour of the Vachel Lindsay Home

Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.

#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes

https://www.sacredwonderland.us/langston-hughes-slept-here/

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One of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination plot.

This page provides more information:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/powell.html

Did you know that Powell was completely constipated for more than a month after his arrest?

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150 Years after the 13th Amendment

After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.

What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.

13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

 

But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.

Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.

Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.

Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.

It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour.  Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.

1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}

The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)

Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:

Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.

Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.

“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.

Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.

In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.

In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.

Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.

Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:

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As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.

“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”

The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015

“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”

“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.

“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…

“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”

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Preceding

Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate

Vatican against Opponents of immigration

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Additional reading

1. Stand Up
2. Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
3. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
4. Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
5. Why I’m Angry
6. A last note concerning civil rights

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4. Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
5. Trouble on the border?
6. America’s Berlin Wall
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12. Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
13. Donald Trump fights back
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15. “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
16. Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
17. Refugees on Our Doorstep
18. The Draft Riots of 1863
19. How well do you know your American history?
20. The Emancipation Proclamation
21. Emancipation Proclamation
22. Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
23. More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
24. 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
25. If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
26. Hallowed Ground Retained
27. Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
28. The New Slavery

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