On Tuesday I was going to attend the Belmont Chamber of Commerce meeting via my computer. I then found the home of John and Elizabeth Warner in Virginia. On the 4th. McCarthy was ousted and the news that the Republican Party is over, and is not what it used to be, began. Senator John Warner was the epitome of a Good Republican. He married my cousin, Elizabeth Taylor, who was a Good Liberal
This is a Southern Farm where the Warners found happiness. I believe Liz was not aware of her Southern Patriot roots. After Kamala Harris was elected Vice President, I tried to share her Oakland roots with the Belmont Historic Society. I was ignored, snubbed, then insulted. I had been discussing Oakland’s Victory with my friend, Ed Howard, a black historian, when I thought about my German roots in Belmont. Not sure what was going on, I wondered if I was dealing with right-wing conservatives. I just founded the Marin Sea Cadets, and posted this idea on the Belmont page. This is before the Jan.6th. Insurrection that is being covertly planned. If it had been a success, then armed Red State Traitors may have marched into California, in order to subdue the Democratic Majority.
I am convinced the Insurrection is continuing. In researching for this post I found this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2007
Russia just killed hundreds of citizens in a rocket attack on mourners. The Election Denying Insurrections are going to cut funding for the Ukraine, which will ultimately threaten our military standing in the world, and weaken every American citizen – as planned. Write your Senator and Congressman, along with the President and Vice President, and beg them to implement Warner’s Military Insurrection Plan!
Jim Jordon, and other members of the Christian Insurrection Party, want to aim Putin’s Army at LGBTQ people all over the world. I suspect some folks at the Belmont Historic Society saw me as the most dreaded political candidate that Belmont would ever experience, if my plan to move there came to fruition. All politicians employ their heritage in running for office. To be denied my heritage, for political reasons, is a violation of my Civil Rights, and a declaration of culture warfare against my Family Tree!
John Presco
Take a look inside Elizabeth Taylor’s historic Virginia farm
If you ever wanted to live like a queen, residing in Elizabeth Taylor’s former manor would be a fabulous place to start.
The late Academy Award winner once lived on this sprawling farm property, which is known as Atoka Farm, in Middleburg, Virginia, with her sixth husband, John Warner.
Here.
Amendment to Section 1076 of the law[edit]
In 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 struck much of the existing text in section 1076. That same section had been what Naomi Wolf talked about when she commented to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!: “You don’t make it easier for the President to declare martial law, as we just did with the 2007 Defense Authorization Act.”[5] The revised section of the law, section 1068 had one amended section had multiple parts with the same exact text.[clarification needed] These sections (as amended, and bolded to show the similar parts) read as follows:`Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law`The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it–`(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or`(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.’.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2007
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Take a look inside Elizabeth Taylor’s historic Virginia farm
The Jealous Historical Society
Posted on February 28, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Dear Mr. Mayor;
Someone on the Belmont Historical Society suggested I have violated their copyright, by posting an image of William Janke, who may be in a family photograph this is posted on their facebook page. About twelve of my posts have been removed, which alarms me, because I offer NEW family information – that could be used without my permission! Being related this famous family does not rate with this clic who are described as “we”. To be invited by an origination connected with the City of Belmont, to contribute your family history, then be treated like you are a outsider and parasite – is outrageous! This goes against the tradition of other Historical Societies – who encourage descendant of famous people to contribute – because there is no telling what they have, or, if they are going to put that Society in their will. I demand a full investigation. I would like to see your bi-laws.
Someone on the Belmont Historical Society suggested I have violated their copyright, by posting an image of William Janke, who may be in a family photograph this is posted on their facebook page. About twelve of my posts have been removed, which alarms me, because I offer NEW family information – that could be used without my permission! Being related this famous does not rate with this clic who are described as “we”. To be invited by an origination connected with the City of Belmont, to contribute your family history, then be treated like you are a outsider and parasite – is outrageous! This goes against the tradition of other Historical societies – who encourage descendant of famous people to contribute – because there is not telling what they have, or if they are going to put that Society in their will. I demand a full investigation. I would like to see your bi-laws.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
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“The Belmont Historical Society Facebook page features posts and information pertaining to Belmont, San Mateo County, California and its history. Everyone is encouraged to send us messages. We will review the content for its interest to our followers.”
Here is Cynthia guarding her small town from an outsider whose family made most of Belmont’s history. It boggles the mind! Surely progressive investors are grateful for the warning. I live in Sprigfield Oregon that has been called Springtucky. How about Belabama?
“We are related to historic people somewhere.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AM
There’s no competition, for Pete’s sake.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AM
Maybe your friend the editor can explain copyright to you.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AM
Everyone is related to “historic people.”
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My name is Cynthia McCarthy and you can blame me and me alone, not the Belmont Historical Society. You can email me at cgkmccarthy@gmail.com.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 11:02 AM
You were advised that any further threats, accusation or name-calling would result in your being blocked from this page. I have not read your newspaper nore do I intend to. Your posts have been subject to the same review as anyone else’s. Again, this is Cynthia Karpa McCarthy, not the president or any other officer of BHS. Please blame me entirely.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 8:03 AM
Cipriani describes himself as Florentine in his diaries even though he was from Corsica. He recounts meeting another Italian speaker in Nevada and tells him he’s “Florentine, thank God!” Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 8:03 AM One of the photos and captions is from the book I wrote. I am not certain if you think much of this information is mew to us.
Where are my posts? I just read this on your page. I am compelled to write an article on my blog-newspaper – for the arts – about your harassment and oppression of my CONNECTION to MY family history – that irks you – because you think you own MY family information. WE are not related. To hint I am violating your copyright, is harassment. I want your name. Here is your chance to make clear to the People of Belmont, why you are censoring information THEY may find interesting and revelent. That you allow a post of a Hollywood actress, who just went to school in Belmont, goes against the criteria you apply to me that is TOO SPECIAL. I suspect you don’t like other things I wrote about on my newspaper and are electing yourself to be a police force.
I am compelled to write an article on my blog-newspaper – for the arts – about your harassment and oppression of my CONNECTION to MY family history – that irks you – because you think you own MY family information. WE are not related. To hint I am violating your copyright, is harassment. I want your name. Here is your chance to make clear to the People of Belmont, why you are censoring information THEY may find interesting and revelent. That you allow a post of a Hollywood actress, who just went to school in Belmont, goes against the criteria you apply to me that is TOO SPECIAL. I suspect you don’t like other things I wrote about on my newspaper and are electing yourself to be a police force.
We have an automatic reply set that says we will respond as soon as we can.
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Cipriani describes himself as Florentine in his diaries even though he was from Corsica. He recounts meeting another Italian speaker in Nevada and tells him he’s “Florentine, thank God!”Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 8:03 AMOne of the photos snd captions is from the book I wrote. I am not certain if you think much of this information is mew to us.
You sent Today at 8:44 AM
What are you suggesting? Who is us? The Janke family is MY family not your family. Millions of families brag on their family history no matter how mundane. This is all I am doing. I did not come to battle with volenteers who I thought would be glad to hear from descendants of the Founder of Belmont. I thought MY history was being rejected as it was twenty years ago by kin of your famous cop who controlled the city history. I never encountered the way you set up your facebook group and assumed the worst and appologised. I even removed post to show I am not at war with a group of volunteers who may be working on books and have written books. I know being related to historic people gives me an advantage. The Benton’s are kin to the Bonaparte family that Cipriani had extensive relationship with.
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 8:44 AM
Greeting! Thanks Greg for your message. We are not here right now, but we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. We are a small organization with a handful of volunteers. Thank you for your patience.
You sent Today at 8:53 AM
New to us? I don’t get this statement. I can get the opinion of a professional writer as to what he makes of this. You may be treating me as a outsider a author who thinks he is in competition with you
You sent Today at 9:00 AM
Here is my good friend, Mark Gall. For 25 years we have discussed out family history. He grew up in Hunter’s Point and will be in my book. Our mutual friend also went to Harvard and wrote a Eisenhower bio. He was an editor for Double Day. How long has each member of the Belmont Society been volunteering to gather my family history? Thank you for the good job you have done. https://pages.uoregon.edu/mgall/vita.htm
We are related to historic people somewhere.Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AMThere’s no competition, for Pete’s sake.Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AMMaybe your friend the editor can explain copyright to you.Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:39 AMEveryone is related to “historic people.”
You sent Today at 9:50 AM
Are you suggesting I am violating YOUR copyright, or, a group’s copyright? I just want to make sure. There is strong evidence that MY family has been collecting OUR history for hundreds of years. Here is the proof the Benton family is kin to the Bonaparte family who were close friends of Cipriani. My famous artist sister married the artist, Garth Benton, the cousin of the artist Thomas Hart Benton. My niece Drew Benton is an artist, and so am I. This constitutes a artistic dynasty – when you include my mother’s cousin, the actress Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Benton-1403Zebulon Howell Benton (1811-1893) | WikiTree FREE Family Treewikitree.com
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA sent Today at 9:51 AM
Sir, our organization is interested solely in Belmont. Best of luck with your endeavors.
You sent Today at 10:00 AM
Are you suggesting that if Harry Truman was born in Belmont, you would exclude the fact he was President? The Bonapartes were world famous and were preparing to invade California and had extensive dealings with Cipriani who they may have been trying to employ in their designs on U.S. Territory. Did Cipriani live in Belmont? You brought his name up in our chit-chat. It appears you are preparing to get me banned from your facebook. You appear to be setting me up. Are you saying I can not post on the Palace Hotel that Ralston built – outside Belmont city LIMITS? You are trying to LIMIT me. I wonder if other city history originations do this.
You sent Today at 10:04 AM
I would like to see a copy of your bi-laws, that should suggest YOU encourage people to contribute THEIR history. It looks like you are DISCOURAGING me.
As of 10:20 P.M. on 2/25/21 these posts are up.
I subscribe to the ideas of Richard Florida who says creative people and investors want to be a part of a progressive, tolerant, and open Bohemian lifestyle. They do not want to move to a place that is closed and claimed by the locals who don’t trust outsiders. https://www.theguardian.com/…/gentrification-richard…
- Cynthia Karpa McCarthyPlease be advised that further threats, accusations or name-calling will result in your being blocked from the page. Thank you.
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CAGreg Presco Hi Greg , I have been enjoyed some of your posts and photos that are directly related to the Belmont area and you have provided some new photos and information that will be put in a file, but please try not to post anything that is off topic or is not Belmont Area related. Thank you ,Denny Lawhern Belmont Historian
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- Greg PrescoFor several days I have been looking for a backer to buy this house in Belmont in order to open a gallery and have a home for my newspaper blog, Royal Rosamond Press. Here is Lawrence Chazen who was a partner of Christine in her first gallery. He was my father’s private lender in his real estate loan business. He is a advisor for the Getty family and a partner in PlumbJack along with the Newsom and Pelosi family. William Ralston is titled ‘The Man Who Built San Francisco’. The Getty family picked up the gauntlet – and run San Francisco and the State of California. They are interested in banks. They like to invest in historic places that honor the arts and artists. https://rosamondpress.com/…/07/19/what-is-lawrence-chazen/
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CAWe are a group of volunteers who promote Belmont history and maintain the Belmont Historical Society’s collection in the History Room in Twin Pines Park.
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CAThe mayor of Belmont is Charles Stone. You may reach him through this website: https://www.belmont.gov/…/council…/city-council
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- Greg PrescoWhy don’t you say there is a delay in posts appearing? I tried to give you this information twenty years ago and someone got threatened and – did nothing! Someone was claiming they were kin to Janke. Is there some kind of unclaimed property? My grandf… See More
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- Greg PrescoPeople get jealous. I am in a battle with outsiders who have written books and movie scripts about my family. Here is my grandmother Mary Magdalene Rosamond sitting next to Norbert. Her daughter, Rosemary, married Victor William Presco the only child … See More
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CAOrganization Facebook pages have administrators who post to their pages, which is standard practice. Our automatic reply says that we respond as soon as we can. Your Notifications have been posted within twenty-four hours of receipt, not bad for an org… See More
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CAIn answer to your initial question, my name is Cynthia McCarthy.
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- Greg PrescoMuch of our history – has no home – because historians and famous families run into roadblocks all the time, and give up. I am working with a black man to get a grant for recording the black history of Oakland. What an ordeal. People ASSUME famous fam… See More
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- Greg PrescoBelmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA They did not show up all last evening. Thank you very much.
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- Greg PrescoBelmont Historical Society, Belmont, CA I thought they were being deleted. I could see them, then they were gone.
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- Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, CANo, sir. Facebook page administrators post notifications. Otherwise you would have spam posted on your page for your followers every day. It might take me a few days before posts I share from this page to the You Know You’re from Belmont page to show up, but I understand that the administrator will get to it when she can.
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- Greg PrescoThe Stackpole history is an orphan. My good friends was very close with them. Ralph camped at Lake Temescal in Oakland with famous artists and writers. https://rosamondpress.com/…/04/am-i-stackpoles-historian/
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- Greg PrescoI feel so relieved!!!!! The tension historians feel is epic. These people become your children. You want them to do well – long after they are dead! I look at the painting of Freida, and she is alive! Thank you!
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- Greg PrescoI took my newfound daughter to visit the Janke-Stuttmeister crypt that was damaged in the earthquake The A in JANKE had fallen off. I wondered if I would be believed because of this. That was twenty years ago. I welcome all challenges to my information… See More
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- Greg PrescoThis crypt was lost – now found! When I saw it – I gasped. Minnie comes from Wilhelmina.
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- Greg PrescoMy newborn grandson, Tyler Hunt. I did not know I had a daughter.
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- Greg PrescoWilliam O. Stuttmeister moved his kin to Colma after the Oddfellow graveyard was dug up. This is a Tiffany window. This is his gift to the City of Belmont and all its citizens. You are all welcome to visit this shine of respecting our family history, a… See More
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- Greg PrescoHere is the Stuttmeister monument in Berlin. This very wealthy family gave it all up to come to dwell in our Democracy…that they believed in! They wanted to know how it felt. They wanted to contribute to freedom.
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Abolition Party and Fremont
Posted on February 9, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
John Fremont explored the vast wilderness looking for a place and time slavery did not exist. He was ridiculed for his attempt. Where is Lincoln? He appears to be a man without a cause and a nation. While Fremont rides into the valley of 500, Lincoln is testing the muddy waters of the Old Wishy-Washy. How supportive was he of Fremont? Was he betting on him to lose – who wouldn’t – and dishonest Abe could pick up the shattered pieces of an experiment gone wrong? When Lincoln won, John returned the favor. The West was his. I believe John was thinking about forming a new nation if the Confederacy won. Every state east of the Mississippi would be a slave state. Losing to Stonewall Jackson put an end to Fremont’s new nation. This was the excuse to fire John. Abe’s all free, or all slave speech was the other thorn in his side.
Breckenridge was the VP candidate on the winning ticket. Joseph Lane of Oregon would be the VP pick next time. The South knew what Fremont and Benton were up to. All Oregonians today, except one, do not own a clue.
Who are these anti-slavery emigrants being handed rifle – when they got off the ship? These are my grandfather, the forty-eighters, who lost to the combined army of the Czar and the Habsburgs. Here is a photo of them taken in the Oakland Hills next to Joaquin Miller’s home and Bohemian enclave he called the Hights. There is a rifle hanging in the tree. These are the Stuttmeisters and Brodericks – Germans! There’s also a wreath made of human hair of ‘Our Diseased’. We were ‘Oddfelows’.
When I came across this photo while looking at our family collection, I asked my mother who they were.
“These are Bohunaks, your father’s people.” She said, not quite sure.
“What is a Bohunk?” asked I.
“A Bohemian.”
These Bohunks were crack shots. They took Habsburg brass out of their saddle. Their enemy had pedigrees and cotes of arms – and the backing of the Pope. They were why the Catholic Mafia never tried to move into California, save one. He was a German. You fuck with one, you fuck with all. That’s the way, we Prescos used to be. The Prescos migrated from Bohemia. These picnickers, are from Berlin.
John Presco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters
Settle the matter with powder and ball / And I will furnish the rifles. Beecher was linked to the New England Emigrant Aid Society, and was known to have furnished antislavery emigrants with arms to participate in the struggle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in Kansas
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John C. Fremont and 1856 Election Cartoon
John C. Fremont and his abolitionist supporters are ridiculed. In particular, the artist condemns the Republican candidate’s alliance with New York “Tribune” editor Horace Greeley and Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher’s role in the Kansas-Nebraska conflict. Fremont (center) rides a scrawny “Abolition nag” with the head of Greeley. The horse is led toward the left and “Salt River” (i.e., political doom) by prominent New York politician William Seward. Fremont muses hopefully, “This is pretty hard riding but if he only carries me to the White house in safety I will forgive my friends for putting me astride of such a crazy Old Hack.” Greeley: “Seward it seems to me we are going the same Road we did in ‘fifty two’ but as long as you lead I’ll follow if I go it blind.” Seward: “Which ever road I travel always brings me to this confounded river, I thought we had a sure thing this time on the Bleeding Kansas dodge.” On the right stands radical abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher, laden with rifles. He preaches in verse: “Be heavenly minded my bretheren all / But if you fall out at trifles; / Settle the matter with powder and ball / And I will furnish the rifles. Beecher was linked to the New England Emigrant Aid Society, and was known to have furnished antislavery emigrants with arms to participate in the struggle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in Kansas. A frontiersman (far right), a figure from Fremont’s exploring past, leans on his rifle and comments, “Ah! Colonel!–you’ve got into a bad crowd–you’ll find that dead Horse on the prarie, is better for the Constitution, than Abolition Soup or Wooly head stew in the White House.”
“In that speech Mr[.] Lincoln distinctly proclaimed it as his opinion that our Government Could not last– part slave & part free -: that either Slavery must be abolished every where– or made equally lawful in all the states or the Union would be dismembered. I Can not be mistaken about this– for I was very sorry to hear him express an opinion which I regarded as erroneous & very dangerouss [sic]– After the Meeting was over– Mr[.] Lincoln & I returned to Pike House– where we occupied the Same room– Immediately on reaching the room I said to Mr [.] Lincoln– ‘What in God’s name could induce you to promulgate such an opinion’ Mr [.] Lincoln replied familiarly– ‘Upon my soul Dickey I think it is true’– I reasoned to show it was not a correct opinion– He argued strenuously that the opinion was a sound one– At length I said to Mr[.] Lincoln– ‘Suppose you are right in this opinion, & that our Government Can not last part free & part slave– What good is to be accomplished by inculcating that opinion (or truth if you please) in the minds of the People?– After a moment of silence & apparent reflection Mr[.] Lincoln Said– “I do not see as there is any good to be accomplished [by] the dissemination of the doctrine.” To which replied– ‘I can see much harm which it may do[.]” “You convince the whole people of this– & you necessarily make Abolitionists of all the People of the North & Slavery proponents of all South– & you precipitate a struggle which may end in disunion– The teaching of the opinion it seems to me tends to hasten the calamity’ After some minutes reflection M[.] Lincoln rose & approached me extending his right hand to take mine & Said–
“I don’t see any necessity for teaching this doctrine– & I don’t Know but it might do harm”– At all events from respect for your judgment, Dickey, I[‘]ll promise you I wont say so again during this Campaign”– We shook hands upon it & the subject was dropped– I heard no more of this time [type] of thought from Mr[.] Lincoln until the year of 1858– when he proclaimed it in his famous Speech at Springfield– at the Opening of that years Canvass.13
Mr. Lincoln took an active role in the Republican campaigns for Governor and President that year. His speaking invitations became so numerous that he complained to Iowa Governor James W. Grimes that he was “plagued” by his request to speak in Iowa.”14 At the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, he was nominated for but lost the nomination for Vice President on a ticket with John C. Frémont. In his campaign speeches, Mr. Lincoln stressed Republicans’ commitment to the Union. The Galena Weekly North-Western Gazette reported: that: “Abraham Lincoln hits the nail on the head every time, and in this instance it will be seen, he has driven it entirely out of sight,— if we succeed as well as we anticipate in re-producing from memory his argument in relation to ‘Disunion.’” The newspaper reported:
Mr. Lincoln was addressing himself to the opponents of Fremont and the Republican party, and had referred to the charge of ‘sectionalism,’ and then spoke something as follows in relation to another charge, and said:
‘You further charge us with being Disunionists. If you mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union, for myself I answer, that is untrue; for those who act with me I answer, that it is untrue. Have you heard us assert that as our aim? Do you really believe that such is our aim? Do you find it in our platform, our speeches, our conversation, or anywhere? If not, withdraw the charge.15
Mary Todd Lincoln wrote her half-sister after Frémont’s defeat in the 1856 election: “Altho’ Mr L— is, or was a Fremont man, you must not include him with so many of those, who belong to that party, an Abolitionist. In principle he is far from it— All he desires is, that slavery, shall not be extended, let it remain, where it is– My weak woman’s heart was too Southern in feeling, to sympathise with any but Fillmore, I have always been a great admirer of his, he made so good a President & is so just a man & feels the necessity of keeping foreigners, within bounds. If some of you Kentuckians, had to deal with the ‘wild Irish,’ as we housekeepers are sometimes called upon to do, the south would certainly elect Mr Fillmore next time…”16
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