On July 25, 1861, the U.S. Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war with the seceded states of the Confederacy was being fought to preserve the Union, not to end slavery.
Social movements usually follow the line of least resistance. While the direct production of economic goods is often very hard, taking possession of those goods produced by others is very easy. This facility has greatly increased from the moment when deprivation became possible through the law and not contrary to it.
Vilfredo Pareto, “Socialism and Freedom,” 1891.
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Chapter I, THE LITERATURE OF LIBERTY, p. 302.
On July 24, 1823, Chile abolished slavery.
On this day in 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court told President Richard Nixon that he lacked constitutional authority to withhold the infamous “Nixon Tapes” from Congress.
July 24 is Pioneer Day in Utah and Simón Bolívar Day in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
On July 24, 1487, citizens in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, went on strike against a ban on foreign beer.
On the same day of 1823’s calendar, slavery was abolished in Chile.
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled, on July 24, 1974, that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes in the developing Watergate scandal.
Lapel cameras on police: another police shooting of a . . . non-suspect offered, here, as evidence. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here.
On this day in 1929, American William Austin Burt patents the “typographer” — a precursor to the typewriter.
Herbert Spencer, Principles of Ethics, Vol. 2, Part V: “Negative Beneficence” (see this page for the complete passage).
A form of selfishness occasionally displayed, and rightly condemned, is that of men who display without bounds their remarkable conversational powers. . . . One who monopolizes conversation loses more by moral reprobation than he gains by intellectual approbation.
The eruption of mob violence and ideological bullying and hooliganism on the Evergreen College campus near Washington State’s capitol is now under review. The man who unknowingly “started” it all by resisting a weirdly racist and segregationist demand from the “equity movement” students and faculty here summarizes the highlights:
https://youtu.be/qW1qR8TVOaE
Here is the full hearing:
https://youtu.be/tht3PfaP9UU
At another hearing on the matter, a rather awkward moment was reached when the interrogations got to security. This is a highly slanted editorial video with animation, comedy and satire thrown in, and may be NSFW. Still…
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302.