Messing, 1834–1840

Bosom Friends ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 66-91
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Balcerski
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Jacksonian Era ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Henry Clay ◽  
The Many

Chapter 3 explores the “Bachelor’s mess,” a phrase drawn from Buchanan’s correspondence, and notes the many ways in which their shared Washington boardinghouse intersected with the overlapping identities of party, section, and marital status. New messmates (and bachelors) emerged during this period, including the lesser known Democrats Edward Lucas of Virginia, Robert Carter Nicholas of Louisiana, John Pendleton King of Georgia, Bedford Brown of North Carolina, William Sterrett Ramsey of Pennsylvania, and William Henry Roane of Virginia. Their congregation into a single boardinghouse produced one of the most politically powerful such units in Washington during the Jacksonian era. As the congressional Democrats struggled to resist the Whig agenda promoted by Henry Clay, Buchanan and King solidified a political strategy that included the institution of a gag rule to quell discussion of slavery and opposition to the national bank. Finally, the chapter continues earlier themes to suggest how Buchanan’s experience in the bachelor’s mess yielded the twin results of his hardening into a committed northern dough-face and his growing intimacy with King.

Appropriating Law in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H. Korobkin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

This essay investigates Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpolation of State v. Mann, a harsh 1829 North Carolina proslavery decision, into her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The essay argues that Stowe's use of State v. Mann continues a conversation about slavery that had been carried on through its text for many years in abolitionist writings. Bringing State v. Mann's circulation history into view shows Stowe engaging the antislavery establishment as well as the legal system, borrowing and imitating its techniques for handling proslavery materials. If her novel is infiltrated and structured by the many legal writings that it assimilates, its fictive world in turn infiltrates, interprets, and alters the significance of the writings she employs, so that proslavery legal writings are made to testify strongly against the slave system that they originally worked to maintain and enforce. Stowe's hybrid text dominates the law while smoothly assimilating it into an interpretive fictive context. Simultaneously, Stowe's typographical cues remind readers of State v. Mann's ongoing, destructive extratextual legal existence. By linking fictive context to legal content, Stowe's novel suggests that slave law must be read and interpreted as a unit that includes the individual suffering it imposes. Misreading State v. Mann as revealing its author's belief in the immorality of slavery, Stowe constructs a fictional judge who upholds slave law despite his personal beliefs. By absorbing, imitating, and besting the strategies and the reach of both legal and abolitionist writings, Dred implicitly stakes a claim for the superior power of political fiction to act in the world.

Curious, Elegant, and Useful Articles

The Mentelles ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Paul Runyon
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Henry Clay

This chapter describes commercial and cultural activity in Lexington between 1807 and 1817 as seen through the eyes of several visitors and contemporary newspapers. Waldemar opens his own "commission store," selling a wide range of items from groceries to household furnishings, alcohol, musical instruments, and toys. From 1808 to 1810, Charlotte teaches geography, astronomy, dancing, and French at Mary Beck's School. In 1817, Waldemar abandons the ups and downs of commerce for a steadier income as porter for the Lexington branch of the Second National Bank, through the intervention of Henry Clay. In the summer of 1820 Charlotte announces that she is opening her own school, Mentelle's for Young Ladies.

The Origins and Establishment of the First Bank of the United States

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.Wayne Morgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Many

In the early days of the Republic, opposition to a national bank derived from fear, ignorance, and a basic cleavage of prophecy. To many persons banks were synonymous with speculation; others viewed them as “aristocratic engines” designed to advance the interests of the few over those of the many. Most important, however, was the discrepancy of viewpoints between those who envisaged an agricultural nation and those who already sensed the embryonic stirrings of a vast industrial economy. To the htter, a strong central bank seemed indispensable. The struggle to establish the First Bank of the United States emphasized the rural-urban cleavage that was to influence much nineteenth-century history. It was also a conspicuous early recourse to implied Constitutional powers, anathema to States' Rights defenders and a great hope of businessmen in a still feeble nation.

‘Carolina Hat’: Vona Groarke's Lament for Art O'Leary

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Mills Harper
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Oral Composition

Vona Groarke's 2008 version of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's famous keen for her husband, Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, features a poetic voice overtly inflected by Irish, English, and American diction and usage. Groarke's poem emphasizes its status as a textual event in more than one time frame as well as another spatial setting. The other time is multiple, including the many translations and discussions of the lament from its eighteenth-century composition until now. The place is also multiple: it might be Dublin or Manchester, Boston or London, or Wake Forest, North Carolina, where Groarke spends part of every year. This new poem stresses the mobility of Eileen's passionate lament: in Groarke's hands, it becomes a poem of the particular place that manages also, intriguingly, to highlight transnational cultural and linguistic implications. This version, another chapter in the history of a work that begins in the fluidity of oral composition and is repeatedly reworked in translations, emphasizes domestic space as generative as well as excessive, the site of desire. Groarke's poem locates itself both inside and, crucially, outside, a place to which one comes ‘carrying nothing’ in order to find, in a seeming paradox, nonrestrictive structures.

Probing Gandhi’s Political Strategy in View of His Civilisational Politics in India

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Arun Bandopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

The present article seeks to critically probe Gandhi’s civilisational view of Indian society and politics both from his few articulate and many hidden statements at different stages of his life. His civilisational view is, therefore, analysed from a variety of perspectives: its origin, direction, advocated methods and long-time impact on Gandhian thought, philosophy and activities. It is presumed that such an analysis of Gandhi’s political philosophy with special reference to his civilisational view may clarify some of the mysteries associated with his much cited and often criticised ‘strategies’ of political activity. The article has three parts. The first dwells on the background of Gandhi’s civilisational critique and touches on some of its contents from the political standpoints. The second probes into the many meanings of civilisational politics both from Gandhi’s articulate and hidden statements on the subject. The third reviews the impact of Gandhi’s civilisational politics on the course and strategy of his political action, and its legacy for the future. The underlying idea is that satyagraha in the Gandhian philosophical context is most intelligible when viewed from the short- and long-term perspectives of civilisational politics.

scholarly journals North Carolina Books

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Dorothy Hodder
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The State ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Many

Coastal North Carolina, and especially Wilmington and the Lower CapeFear area, has been the location for many exciting events for more than four centuries. This book provides a comprehensive tool for discovering these sites.  In this easy-to-use guide, author Jack E. Fryar, a native of Wilmington, offers an illustrated tour of the many historical tourism stops in the southeastern part of the state. The list of entries is color-coded by location and includes a wide range of sites, including the gardens, cemeteries, museums, and even the North Carolina Room at the New Hanover County Public Library.

Demographic Extent and Measurement of Financial Inclusion in Jammu Division

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3and4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Salathia ◽  
Neetu Andotra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Global Agenda

The aim of this paper is to examine the demographic extent and measure the perceptual gap among the beneficiaries having different age, caste, religion, qualification, income, gender, and marital status regarding nature of financial inclusion in Jammu division. It is the fact that financial inclusion has emerged as an important topic on the global agenda for sustainable long-term economic growth of all the sections of the society. The study is based upon the primary data obtained from the beneficiaries of four banks namely, Jammu & Kashmir Bank (JKB), Jammu & Kashmir Grameen Bank (JKGB), State Bank of India (SBI), and Punjab National Bank (PNB) belonging to villages of five districts namely, Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Reasi, and Udhampur of Jammu division of J&K state through judgement sampling. A schedule was framed containing items of demographics and statements measuring financial inclusion based upon five point Likert scale. The findings indicate that on the demographic variables i.e., age, caste, gender & marital status, there is no significant difference exists regarding nature of financial inclusion, whereas on other demographic variables such as, religion, qualification & income nature of financial inclusion differs.

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