{"id":16539,"date":"2020-11-14T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=16539"},"modified":"2020-11-14T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:29:11","slug":"new-york-times-of-1864-on-the-rancorous-and-abusive-abolitionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/14\/new-york-times-of-1864-on-the-rancorous-and-abusive-abolitionists\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times of 1864 on the &#8220;rancorous and abusive&#8221; Abolitionists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tweet by Waleed Shahid on November 12, 2020:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York Times covering the abolitionist movement in 1859: &#8220;They are as rancorous and abusive as if they were on the point of utter annihilation. Their speeches sound more like the ravings of Bedlamites than the utterances of men seeking the accomplishment of a practical object.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"848\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1.png 848w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1-150x74.png 150w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1-300x147.png 300w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1-768x377.png 768w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tweet1-250x123.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_waleedshahid\">Waleed Shahid@_waleedshahid<\/a> replying to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_waleedshahid\">@_waleedshahid<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If Mr. LINCOLN be elected, he will have to cut off the Abolition and extreme wing of his party; otherwise he will go by the board. Mr. THOMPSON believes that President LINCOLN, being a practical, common-sense man, and an old Whig, would reject the radical Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_waleedshahid\/status\/1327036458306244611\">3:52 PM \u00b7 Nov 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet by Waleed Shahid on November 12, 2020: New York Times covering the abolitionist movement in 1859: &#8220;They are as rancorous and abusive as if they were on the point of utter annihilation. Their speeches sound more like the ravings of Bedlamites than the utterances of men seeking the accomplishment&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/14\/new-york-times-of-1864-on-the-rancorous-and-abusive-abolitionists\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16543,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}