American Civil War event
also: Civil War, Civil War in America, the war, war, War of Northern Aggression
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Abraham Lincoln overthrew
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“So the founding fathers wanted to, we have to have some government, but we want as little as possible and have it decentralized. Well, that all changed when Lincoln won. So the reason I impose Abraham Lincoln has nothing to do with slavery …”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 1:21:18
United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change
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“was very well known for textile mills and stuff like that. And the Tata family was like the largest production of textiles and cloth for the British. And it's very well known that the British was a big instigator of the Civil War and that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:22:06
France targeted_for_regime_change
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“So did the French, because a lot of this involved them through the continent of Africa as well, wanted the slave production, which is not unlike what we find in Gladio in the use of the African colony. Even after they supposedly decoloniali…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:22:33
Wisconsin counterfeit gang funded
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“counterfeiting ring were related to their families in Allegheny. So these are the two little hubs of where all of this corruption comes from. And they're doing this in the 1850s. And they were producing things like fake $500 Union banknotes…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 40:34
United Kingdom funded
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“And there was this whole big production in slave colonies from French colonies and the marketing of that rice into Europe. And so they had every incentive not to help the North and a lot of incentives to help the South. Yeah, and that's one…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 46:54
France funded
American Civil War host_asserted
“And there was this whole big production in slave colonies from French colonies and the marketing of that rice into Europe. And so they had every incentive not to help the North and a lot of incentives to help the South. Yeah, and that's one…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 46:54
American Civil War about
Civil War structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'American Civil War' is a work/event about 'Civil War'…”
Mentions (61)
▶ 1:06:51
when he should have potentially, when Russians were begging him to go in and save their cousins in Donbass, he went in after Trump had left. So that is a great point. But, you know, I hope people do know that, but, you know, back in the Civ…
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into the American Civil War. And you had the Tsar send his fleet to LA, to California and to New York. And he parked his fleet there and he sent messages to Paris and to London saying, if you interfere in the American Civil War, we will des…
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The Federalists got driven out of power, but that's when Talmadge actually gets elected when the rest of his party disappears. A couple other side notes. He defended a guy by the name of Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams …
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I'll get into this a little bit more, but one of the main reasons the North won the Civil War was for economic reasons. We're going to get into this more, but Upham was a big part of that. There's estimates that by the end of the war, this …
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And when you get more of a product, what happens? Its price goes down. So gold causes inflation. So economic times are hard. You got all kinds of immigration coming to America. Remember, the Civil War was an economic war. The northern indus…
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And they're doing this in the 1850s. And they were producing things like fake $500 Union banknotes. So we get to the Civil War and why this matters. The Union is desperate for cash. And the Lincoln administration turns to the counterfeiters…
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He would also facilitate the sale of over 500 million dollars in government bonds to fund the war. That's a lot of money back then. That is billions today. He put his own face on the currency. Chase has a bit of an ego. And again, eventuall…
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And the big reason is they didn't want to put secession, basically the legality of the North's actions, on trial. Remember, the North suspended the Constitution, suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln arrested anybody who wrote a newspaper that w…
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And she used all kinds of tradecraft, using disguises and related tactics. But it required her to stay awake throughout the entire journey. And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh?…
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They were a big part of, you know, the Union intelligence. And these are not nice guys, by the way. They are tough. Interestingly, historians looking back have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union army…
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And so bad intelligence is really bad. And apparently he wasn't very good at it. So a little historical side note. So after the war, what do the Pinkertons do? Well, one of the first things they're doing is they're pursuing train robbers li…
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to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…
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I found one of the interesting things that he did was he ran against Horace Greeley for the Senate in 1861. And neither one of them won. You remember Horace Greeley? I do. That's a famous, Lincoln wrote a famous letter to Horace Greeley whe…
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In Lincoln's own words, it clearly was not. And that's where you find the best evidence is the letters to Horace Greeley that Lincoln wrote. So that was a fun little coincidence there. What else we have on him? Oh, yes. He is the one who pr…
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the British and the French helping the South, where Russia kind of cut them off on both coasts from interfering in the Civil War because they definitely wanted the South to win. Yeah. The tariffs that the North, the tariff of abominations, …
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most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …
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which remained one of the wealthiest and most influential dynasties in the US over the last century. In 1869, which would be just before the Fabian Society, the family patriarch, Judge Thomas Mellon, established Mellon Bank in the aftermath…
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from the South so they could take it to India, get it woven into cloth and then on to the UK. And so you can't, which is, of course, what we do now as far as wanting cheap things done by basically slave plantations all over the world. But y…
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and you see a fundamental shift in the way the United States is going to wage war. In actuality, the global war on terror brought to light a process that had been going on for quite some time, again, all the way back to the days of the pira…
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In 1865, the Intelligence Service became the modern Secret Service, firmly under the control of the U.S. government. Pinkertons would continue to work for the Union during the Civil War, probably as spies, however, being dispatched to New O…
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Just like the international syndicate today, everybody gets rich off of war, except for the poor damn bastards that have to fight it. Alan Pinkerton himself had been struggling prior to the conflict, but somehow got rich off of war. Imagine…
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on, uh, not funding the unconstitutional things and, uh, on the, all the nice things being unconstitutional, you know, can't, can't support them unless, uh, you know, unless it's, it's something that the federal government should be doing a…
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I'm thinking about that now and how the, you know, you said the Marshall Plan was used to pay for Operation Gladio. And I'm just connecting that back to Matt Ehret and his research on how the British kind of set up the Civil War by, you kno…
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was very well known for textile mills and stuff like that. And the Tata family was like the largest production of textiles and cloth for the British. And it's very well known that the British was a big instigator of the Civil War and that t…
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So did the French, because a lot of this involved them through the continent of Africa as well, wanted the slave production, which is not unlike what we find in Gladio in the use of the African colony. Even after they supposedly decoloniali…
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Tsar Nicholas said that or one of the whoever the Russian czar was at the time that he said that he was going to deploy and did deploy ships off the coast of the east and west coasts of the United States that the British and the French were…
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that the British and the French did not want to have to pay more for cotton. The price that they wanted to pay was with slave labor, which made cotton a lot cheaper in the United States. And so they definitely interfered in the Civil War. T…
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It was Alexander II, I believe. But the British had planted cotton in Egypt, which they were running at the time. Cotton crops came in during the Civil War, and that lessened their enthusiasm for going ahead and backing the South. So that a…
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Where did we see Lovett first? I don't know where we see him first. He was on the Anderson Trust, which is from the Operation Golden Lily. Oh. That's that Lovett. So we'll do a deeper dive into him for sure. Among those three, we also have …
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that are in all these positions of power. They intermarry with these other families. You have to be of the right blood and stuff like that. This story really ties into it. Before we got too further down the timeline, I thought it was really…
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A really old family. His great-grandfather was James Wadsworth. He's a Union general in the Civil War who died at the Battle of the Wilderness. So, Civil War hero. Both his grandfather, James Wolcott Wadsworth, and his father, James Wolcott…
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um do you have any other shows coming up war hamster yeah the one we had to postpone yesterday uh because my voice uh we probably we're gonna try to get out tomorrow um and that's the uh it's one of my federalist report series we're going t…
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We talked a little bit about that. So let's talk about James Scolet Whitney. And I've got a picture of him. Oops, I thought I had a picture of him. There he goes. There's James Scolet Whitney. He is one of the scions of the Whitney family. …
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the collector of customs for the port of boston oh wow yeah there you go talk about that well yeah the that is like the pivotal um because if you go back through all of the documentation that we have one of the very first things when they i…
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in particular, until the Civil War. War breaks out, and he goes to New York City and gets into the shipping business and becomes an agent of, of course, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, his father's company. He would establish the West E…
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one of the co-founders of skull and bones was williamton william huntington russell co-founder class of 1833 he was a major general in connecticut militia in 1863 during the war of northern aggression um i gotta get my lincoln dig in every …
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He was running a prep school, and he had long foreseen that the Civil War was going to happen. He was a Lincoln supporter. He trained all of his boys that went to his school to be militarily right. He taught them how to shoot, everything li…
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In 1847, he became a lieutenant colonel in the 12th Regiment of Connecticut Militia. He was in Congress in 1859-51. And there he was on what's called the Committee of 33. Have we talked about the Committee of 33? I don't remember. Give me a…
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He was a Civil War era commander. Then Perry becomes a Brigadier General in the Union Army, and he notoriously fought against Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. These bones can get around, right? Yeah. Next guy we have is a …
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picture of him as the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia. He's class of 57. He also joined the Freemasons in 1857. There was Skull and Bones and Freemasons. We haven't seen a lot of that before, at least in the blue of. In 1861, Latham appoints him…
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And he would command the district of Southwest Georgia in 1945. That's a military district. After the war, basically the South lived for a number of years under military occupation. It wasn't just shake hands and go home. But isn't that wha…
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He'd get admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1846 and practice law in Newark until the Civil War. He then becomes a brigadier general in the New Jersey Militia. How does that work? These lawyers who probably haven't fired a gun in 20 years ge…
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This is a fun story. Born in 1832 in Kentucky, his great-great-grandfather was a guy by the name of Gideon Gibson. Gideon Gibson was a free man of color who married a white woman and owned land and owned slaves. That's his ancestor. His fam…
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Civil War comes up and Congress passes the Revenue Act of 1861, which was basically 3% tax on income of anyone making over $800 a year. That's about $28,000 today. I'd be okay with a 3% tax. I probably would not throw tea into the harbor wi…
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moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…
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It's really all about displaying wealth rather than earning it. So that's pretty much how to get to the third generation. One other fun side note about Billy. He got into a business venture with Ulysses S. Grant that was a Ponzi scheme, and…
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He was a statesman, a lawyer, a rancher, and a banker. A U.S. congressman from Ohio. He was one of the cousins. He was a congressman three different times. Here's where it's fun. He is a Whig, the predecessor of the Republican Party. And he…
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and established a town called Delano, Pennsylvania. Named him after himself. We get to 1857, and there's something called the Panic of 1857. Bank panics, like a run on the banks. And remember, this is 1857, right before the Civil War. It's …
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You need to distract from a bad economy. And when you nationalize an economy for wartime production, oh, there's money to be made. So Delano loses most of his fortune during that panic. And so what does he do? 1860, he goes back to Hong Kon…
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The Federalists got driven out of power, but that's when Talmadge actually gets elected when the rest of his party disappears. A couple of other side notes. He defended a guy by the name of Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Ada…
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I'll get into this a little bit more, but one of the main reasons the North won the Civil War was for economic reasons. And we're going to get into this more, but Upham was a big part of that. There's estimates that by the end of the war, t…
▶ 32:11
And when you get more of a product, what happens? Its price goes down. So gold causes inflation. So economic times are hard. You have all kinds of immigration coming to America. Remember, the Civil War was an economic war. The northern indu…
▶ 40:34
counterfeiting ring were related to their families in Allegheny. So these are the two little hubs of where all of this corruption comes from. And they're doing this in the 1850s. And they were producing things like fake $500 Union banknotes…
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They didn't have the money to pay their soldiers and pay the industrialists to make all their munitions. So they basically printed and counterfeited their way into it. These fake notes were returned in the Union banks and funneled into the …
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Right. And isn't that kind of the whole thing about everything that we've been talking about? The the war on terror. Let's create the terrorist so that we let all the war on drugs. Let's create the drugs so that we can have. This is just em…
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And the big reason is they didn't want to put secession, basically the legality of the North's actions on trial. Remember, the North suspended the Constitution, suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln arrested anybody who wrote a newspaper that wa…
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So if they were invading the South about slavery, why would they allow a slave state in? And furthermore, if legally Virginia was still a part of the Union, as they're asserting, they could not have annexed West Virginia because you can't d…
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And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh? Yeah. That's where you get your private eye. All right. So during the Civil War, the Pinkerton agents, they'd work undercover, dress up as …
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looking back, have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union Army. He said he would exaggerate troop movements. And if you tell a Union general that the South has twice as many troops as they actually have,…
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to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…
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It's a fascinating guy. Born in 1850, lived in 1927. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a wealthy and socially connected family. We're getting a lot of Baltimore today, aren't we? Yes. As a boy, I'll tell you how well connected his famil…