what we thought of as a major advance for freedom in the world has been attained. it starts in the parish immediately adjacent to menard s home. this is st. thomas in the east, a parish on the eastern shore of jamaica, in a small colonial town of morant bay. on a routine court case, there is an african-american defendant who is being charged with a fine for alleged trespass on an abandoned plantation that had essentially been allowed to become overgrown, and this particular defendant in the case had crossed onto the land, and we think that he may have attempted to cultivate some food. but regardless of the case, what it was was essentially the land-owning class was attempting to clamp down upon black attempts to establish property rights within the colony. and this individual was brought before the court, prosecuted, threatened with a fine. and after he s convicted, he s brought outside of the courtroom and he s met by paul bogle, who is an affiliate of menard s, an ally thro
themselves free democrats, former supporters of the liberty party and the free soil party, along with a good number of know-nothing party loyalists, helped establish the republican party. many of these people were part of what was then called the anti-nebraska movement. thus some northern democrats came to be called anti-nebraska democrats. in 1856 a group of illinois anti-nebraska newspaper editors called for a convention of people opposed to the kansas-nebraska act to be held in bloomington on may 29th. this gathering is remembered as the time and place that the republican party was officially established in illinois. on july 2nd at the republican convention for the third congressional district, the delegates chose owen lovejoy as their candidate but only by a the party s nod. many republicans found lovejoy s radical abolitionist position too risky. some of them even considered voting for an alternate candidate. but over that summer, lincoln became convinced that lovejoy s
and nonpartisan educational organization on capitol hill. that s no mean achievement. but our 50 years of existence pales in comparison to the proud history of knox college of galesburg, illinois, which later this month celebrates its 175th anniversary. i m pleased to introduce the president of knox college who will in turn introduce today s speaker. teresa arn achat is the 19th president and the first woman president in the history of knox college. she came to knox college after a distinguished academic career at several institutions, including bucknell, harvard, the university of massachusetts, wellesley, gettysburg, and hobart and william smith colleges. professor arnaut. thank you very much. it is a great honor to join you today for this lecture by my wonderful knox college colleague, owen muelder. before introducing owen, i d like to thank the u.s. capitol historical society, the illinois state society, the d.c. knox club for their sponsorship of the event and also fol
over the next few hours a look at the fight against slavery in the u.s. first, the life of abolitionist owen lovejoy who served in congress leading up to and during the civil war. then a discussion on the abolitionist and women s suffrage movements. later, the story of john willis menard, who was the first african-american elected to the u.s. congress. between 1971 and 1973, president rhythm are richard nation son secretly recorded nearly 4,000 hours of phone calls and meetings. always agree on the middle things. then you hold on the big one. hell, i ve done this so often in conversations with people. i say, i will concede that, make them all feel good, then don t give them the big one. every saturday this month hear more of the nixon tapes including discussions with future presidents, key white house advisers, saturdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern. hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 fm. on xm, channel
senator conrad? i was wanting to inquire of the senator, is this mandatory money? this would be, yes. well, the concern i d have is we just provided the entire offset for the energy title, $800 million, mandatory money, that was out of what was left. and what i don t know, is there this additional sum still remaining? you know, we we had a funding mechanism for energy that we altered in deference to senator chambliss so that all the mandatory funding came in the balance that we had remaining. and so i just don t want to have us find ourselves in a situation we ve spent the money twice. and that would be a concern i have because i don t have a an up-to-date run. perhaps their economist does or other staff members do, but i do think we have to guard against creating an expectation that we ve spent more money than we really have available. if i might just indicate in terms of we re looking at the numbers now. we do know that we ve hit our $23 billion commitment and s