Everyone is talking about the Hurricane Ida. It is the most powerful hurricane hitting Louisiana since Hurricane Laura in 2020. Thousands of people have fled the Gulf Coast region in order to try to survive literally. Over 1 million people have lost power in the Gulf Coast region. FEMA, the state governments, and the local governments have shown great preparedness in contrast to the response to Hurricane Katrina which happened 16 years ago. In fact, this year is the 16th anniversary of the Katrina natural disaster. The concern is about many issues from flooding, power outages, and other matters. The levees being about 18 feet in New Orleans have given New Orleans added protection. With new technologies from I Phones to social media, communication is quicker and more widespread. Throughout the week, the storm will travel up the Delta into West Virginia, Virginia, and other places of America by the end of the week. This storm was as fast as 150 mph now with wind gusts of 185 mph. Ida making landfall is a reality. It is a tropical storm now moving quickly. People are waiting to see if the pumping prevented more damage to New Orleans. The devastation has been horrendous in Houma, Louisiana. Charities and other organizations are helping the victims of Ida constantly. President Biden has given Louisiana federal aid after the Governor of Louisiana has requested it.
To understand 9/11 is also to know that 9/11 is much more complex than many people realize. There is information about the ownership, access, and security of the World Trade Center complex that must be explained. As we know, David Rockefeller and his brother Nelson Rockefeller promoted the World Trade Center Complex back in the 1960's. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was the manager of the WTC complex. The Port Authority chairman on 9/11 was Lewis Eisenberg (who was appointed by Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman and with the support of Governor George Pataki of New York state). By July 2001, Larry Silverstein with Frank Lowy as a minor partner, leased the World Trade Center from the Port Authority. We know that Peter Peterson's Blackstone Group bought the debt on World Trade Center 7 from the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. Peter Peterson was a Pilgrim Society member and one of the most powerful Americans during his lifetime. Kroll was the WTC's primary security consultant. Joseph Kasputys was a tenant in the impact zone of the World Trade Center.
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was one of the most unique Presidents in American history. He was a military officer and President for only 31 days in 1841. He had the shortest serving time as U.S. President in history. His death caused a brief constitutional crisis regardless to the President. The reason was that back then, the U.S. Constitution didn't make it clear on what should be done in the event of a President's death. He was born in Charles City County, Virginia. He was the son of the Framer Benjamin Harrison V and the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Harrison or the 23rd President of the United States of America. Harrison was the last President born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies. He was a member of a prominent political family of English descent whose ancestors had been in Virginia since the 1630s. Benjamin Harrison became the last American President not born as an American citizen. His father was a Virginian planter, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–1777) and who signed the Declaration of Independence. His father also served in the Virginia legislature and as the fifth governor of Virginia (1781–1784) in the years during and after the American Revolutionary War. Harrison's older brother Carter Bassett Harrison represented Virginia in the House of Representatives (1793–1799). Harrison was tutored at home until age 14 when he began attending Hampden–Sydney College, a Presbyterian college in Virginia. He studied there for three years, receiving a classical education which included Latin, Greek, French, logic, and debate. His Episcopalian father removed him from the college, possibly for religious reasons, and after brief stays at an academy in Southampton County, Virginia, and with his elder brother Benjamin in Richmond. Later, he went to Philadelphia in 1790.
He was involved in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers that caused the end of the Northwest Native American War. It was an American military victory. He led a military force against Tecumseh's troops at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. That is why his nickname was "Old Tippecanoe." He was a major General during the War of 1812 in the Army. He was led infantry and cavalry at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada. Harrison became the Secretary of the Northwest Territory in 1798 and by 1799, he was elected as the territory's delegate in the House of Representatives. In 1801, he was the Governor of the new Indiana Territory. Harrison held that position until 1812. During that time, he supervised 11 treaties with Native American leaders. The federal government got more than 60 million acres of land. The 1804 Treaty of St. Louis with Quashquame required the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes to cede much of western Illinois and parts of Missouri to the federal government. Many of the Sauk greatly resented this treaty and the loss of lands, especially Black Hawk, and this was a primary reason that they sided with the British during the War of 1812. Harrison thought that the Treaty of Grouseland (1805) appeased some of the Native Americans, but tensions remained high along the frontier. The Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) raised new tensions when Harrison purchased more than 2.5 million acres (10,000 km2) inhabited by the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Wea, and Piankeshaw tribes; he purchased the land from the Miami tribe, who claimed ownership. He rushed the treaty process by offering large subsidies to the tribes and their leaders so that it would be in force before Jefferson left office and the administration changed. He was pro-slavery too. He wanted Congress to allow slavery in the Indiana by repelling Article VI of the Northwest Ordinance. Congress rejected the idea. Jefferson was the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, and he had made a secret compact with James Lemen to defeat the nascent pro-slavery movement eventually led by Harrison. Even though he was a slaveholder himself. Jefferson did not want slavery to expand into the Northwest Territory, as he believed that the institution should end. He donated $100 to encourage Lemen, who donated those funds to other good works, and later another $20 to help fund the planting of the church later known as Bethel Baptist Church. Lemen planted churches in Illinois and Indiana to stop the pro-slavery movement. In Indiana, the planting of an anti-slavery church led to citizens signing a petition and organizing politically to defeat Harrison's efforts to legalize slavery in the territory. Jefferson and Lemen were instrumental in defeating Harrison's attempts in 1805 and 1807 to expand slavery in the territory. After the War of 1812, he moved into Ohio where he was elected to represent the state's 1st district in the House in 1816. In 1824, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Harrison lost the Presidential election in 1836. He faced the incumbent Van Buren during the 1840 election. The economy was weakened by the Panic of 1837. William Henry Harrison won in a landslide victory in 1840. He had 234 electoral votes to Van Buren's 60. He got 53 percent of the popular vote to Van Buren's 47 percent, with a margin of less than 150,000 votes. He set up the first Whig cabinet. He married a woman named Anna Tuthill Symmes of North Bend, Ohio, and they had 10 children together. He took the oath office on Thursday, March 4, 1841 on a cold, wet day. He didn't wear an overcoat or hat. He gave the longest inaugural address in American history at 8,445 words taking him nearly two hours to read. Harrison wanted to rebuild the Bank of the United States via Henry Clay's American system. He intended to defer to the judgment of Congress on legislative matters, with sparing use of his veto power, and to reverse Jackson's spoils system of executive patronage. He promised to use patronage to create a qualified staff, not to enhance his own standing in government. Harrison had disputes with Clay on governing.
On March 26, 1841, Harrison became ill with cold-like symptoms. His doctor, Thomas Miller, prescribed rest; Harrison was unable to rest during the day for the crowds in the White House, and that night chose instead to host a party with his army friends. The next day, he was seized with chills during a cabinet meeting and was put to bed. By the morning of March 28, Harrison had a high fever, at which time a team of doctors was called in to treat him. The prevailing theory at the time was that his illness had been caused by the bad weather at his inauguration three weeks earlier. Others noted that in his first few days in office, Harrison had personally walked in the mornings to purchase groceries (and a dairy cow for the White House) at Washington's markets, with the weather still cold and the markets in the midst of marshlands. (He ended the morning walks after the office-seekers began following him to the markets). As soon as the doctors placed him in bed and undressed him, they diagnosed him with right lower lobe pneumonia, and placed heated suction cups on his bare body and administered a series of bloodlettings to draw out the disease. Those procedures failed to bring about improvement, so the doctors treated him with ipecac, castor oil, calomel, mustard plasters, and finally with a boiled mixture of crude petroleum and Virginia snakeroot. All this only weakened Harrison further and the doctors came to the conclusion that he would not recover. Some believed that unsanitary water contributed to his death. Harrison died on April 4, 1841, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office; he was the first president to die in office. A 30-day period of mourning commenced following the president's death. The White House hosted various public ceremonies, modeled after European royal funeral practices. An invitation-only funeral service was also held on April 7 in the East Room of the White House, after which Harrison's coffin was brought to Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. where it was placed in the Public Vault.Solomon Northup gave an account of the procession in Twelve Years a Slave. That June, Harrison's body was transported by train and river barge to North Bend, Ohio, and he was buried on July 7 in a family tomb at the summit of Mt. Nebo overlooking the Ohio River which is now the William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial.
There was a dispute on who would replace Harrison and Vice President Tyler took control of the President. Back then, Article I, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution was ambiguous on the succession to the Presidency. Tyler was sworn as the new President on April 6, 1841. Congress passed a resolution making Tyler President for the rest of Harrison's term. The Constitution made the Vice President as the successor if the President died by the 1967 25th Amendment in Section One. Tyler would reject Whig views. Harrison's grandson Benjamin Harrison would be President later on. His wife, Anna, was given by pension after Harrison died almost penniless. America saw more expansion of land in creating controversial treaties with Native Americans during his time as President.
John Tyler (1790-1862) was a President like Andrew Jackson. He served one term, he was a conservative, and he was an overt reactionary. He was the 10th President of the United States of America serving from 1841 to 1845. He was born to a slave owning family. He came from Charles City County, Virginia. He is descendants of the First Families of Virginia.The Tyler family traced its lineage to English emigrants and 17th century colonial Williamsburg. His father, John Tyler Sr., commonly known as Judge Tyler, was a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Benjamin Harrison V, William's father. The elder Tyler served four years as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates before becoming a state court judge and later Governor of Virginia and a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at Richmond. His wife, Mary Marot (Armistead), was the daughter of prominent New Kent County plantation owner and one-term delegate, Robert Booth Armistead. She died of a stroke in 1797 when her son John was seven years old.
John Tyler's family owned slaves. He studied legal matters, and John Tyler was a state judge. He was a person who also owned slaves people in numbering 24 people. John Tyler supported states' rights and he opposed a national bank like conservatives did back in the day. He joined fellow legislator Benjamin W. Leigh in supporting the censure of U.S. senators William Branch Giles and Richard Brent of Virginia who had, against the Virginia legislature's instructions, voted for the recharter of the First Bank of the United States. He wanted America to fight back against the British after the British captured Hampton, Virginia during the War of 1812. Tyler organized a militia company called the Charles City Rifles to defend Richmond. He was a captain. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. John Tyler was in the U.S. Senate. During his life, he didn't want the expansion of the power of the federal government. Tyler was an ally with Andrew Jackson at first, then he disagree with Jackson's spoils system. He agreed with Jackson on opposition to the Second Bank of the United States. Tyler was so extreme, that he supported South Carolina in the Nullification crisis over tariffs. South Carolina threatened secession back in the 1830's. He lost the 1836 Presidential election. John Tyler's opponents never saw him as President. Mississippi Senator Robert J. Walker, in opposition, stated that the idea that Tyler was still vice president and could preside over the Senate was absurd. Tyler disagreed with the Whigs on the tariff issue. Tyler wanted to expand America to the Pacific and have free trade. His foreign policies helped America to annex Hawaii to the United States. President Tyler wanted to annex Texas. Texas was already independence after the Texas Revolution of 1836.
The people of Texas actively pursued joining the Union, but Jackson and Van Buren had been reluctant to inflame tensions over slavery by annexing another Southern state. Though Tyler intended annexation to be the focal point of his administration. Secretary Webster was opposed, and convinced Tyler to concentrate on Pacific initiatives until later in his term. Texas was part of the Union by December 29, 1845. Tyler owned slaves, knew slavery was wrong, and he still owned them anyway. He was part of the states' rights movement. He lived to recognize the John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry. Tyler's community organized a cavalry troop and a home guard company; Tyler was chosen to command the home guard troops with the rank of captain. Tyler was a traitor for joining the Confederacy during the American Civil War. On April 17, 1861, after the attack on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops, Tyler voted with the new majority for secession. He headed a committee that negotiated the terms for Virginia's entry into the Confederate States of America and helped set the pay rate for military officers. On June 14, Tyler signed the Ordinance of Secession, and one week later the convention unanimously elected him to the Provisional Confederate Congress. Tyler was seated in the Confederate Congress on August 1, 1861, and he served until just before his death in 1862. In November 1861, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives but he died of a stroke in his room at the Ballard Hotel in Richmond before the first session could open in February 1862. He had poor health all over his life. He had the most children (having 15 children) of any American President. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia being only 71 years old. John Tyler decided to be a traitor to America by joining the Confederacy.
There was my late 1st cousin called Florence Brickhouse. She is a descendant of Benjamin Brickhouse II (1791-1878). Benjamin's son was Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826). Johnson's daughter was my great grand mother Esther Brickhouse Bailey (1862-1955). Florence Brickhouse's parents are Benjamn Brickhouse III (b. 1838) and Mary Perkins. Florence Brickhouse married George Johnson (b. 1866) on February 23, 1891 at Northampton County, Virginia. That is located at the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Their children are Amos Johnson (b. 1889), George Johnson (b. 1893), and Lenwood Johnson (1896-1972). Amos Johnson married Catherine Ames (b. 1892) on May 18, 1910 at Northampton County, Virginia. Their children are: Donzella Johnson (1910-1978) and Edward Johnson (1916-1979).
I am hugely disappointed in Sha'Cari Richardson in her recent actions. Many of us were rooting for her, but she did many terrible things that have literally no justification at any circumstance. To start, she was caught with marijuana. Richardson accepted responsibility and wanted to move on. Many of us were on her side and wished her the best. Later, she lost a race at the Prefontaine in Oregon during August of 2021. During the interview, she said that she wasn't going to give up, and she said a cursed word. People still supported her. After that track and field race, she went too far by once liking a post making misogynoir statements about the black Jamaican track and field athletes. First, our Jamaican Sisters are part of the black family and the human family. They are owed dignity and respect as black human beings. Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, Elaine Thompson, and Shericka Jackson earned their medals by hardwork and courage. They worked diligently in their lives without complaining, without whining, and without excuses. Each of these athletes lost races before, but they continued to later win Olympic medals and other awards. They are definitely role models in our time. Also, Sha'Cari Richardson mocked Allyson Felix, when Allyson Felix said that people should support Sha'Cari Richardson. Allyson Felix has always been humble, she is the most decorated American track and field athlete in Olympic history. For Sha'Cari to do that, she needs to apologize to Allyson Felix in private or in public period. Sha'Cari is in her early 20's, so she has time to improve herself, but she has to learn that she's grown. Once you're grown, you have to show maturity, character, and improvement in our lives. So, we want people around Sha'Cari Richardson to direct her into the right direction.
By Timothy
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