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Richard Biddle PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD: RICHARD BIDDLE “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY CAPE COD: That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of PEOPLE OF Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the CAPE COD United States generally, any more than to Patagonia. His careful biographer (Biddle) is not certain in what voyage he ran down the coast of the United States, as is reported, and no one tells us what he saw. RICHARD BIDDLE SEBASTIAN CABOT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1796 March 25, Friday: Richard Biddle was born in Philadelphia, a son of a wealthy merchant, Charles Biddle, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (the son would become the youngest member of the Class of 1811 at his father’s institution). Initially he would practice law in Pittsburgh. A brother was American financier Nicholas Biddle, nephew of Representative Edward Biddle, and uncle of Representative Charles John Biddle. He would himself serve in the US House of Representatives. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1811 Friend Edward Hicks began his initial preaching tour, and moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania legislature combined the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal and the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal companies into the Union Canal Company. At 15 years of age, Richard Biddle was the youngest member of the Class of 1811 as it accepted its bachelor’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania: (Possibly as he had his sheepskin handed to him he would have gone “Thanks, Dad” — since his daddy was a trustee of the institution.) LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1827 Richard Biddle went to England. While there he would provide a critical review of Captain Basil Hall’s TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE YEARS 1827 AND 1828 (Edinburgh). VOLUME ONE OF THREE VOLUME TWO OF THREE VOLUME THREE OF THREE DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1830 Richard Biddle returned from England to America. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1831 The Harvard Library published a list of its maps: HARVARD MAP COLLECTION Richard Biddle’s A MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT, WITH A REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MARITIME DISCOVERY. ILLUSTRATED BY DOCUMENTS FROM THE ROLLS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED (London, 1831; Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1831), a careful study which David Henry Thoreau would check out and use as source material for remarks in CAPE COD. BIDDLE ON SEB. CABOT CAPE COD: That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of PEOPLE OF Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the CAPE COD United States generally, any more than to Patagonia. His careful biographer (Biddle) is not certain in what voyage he ran down the coast of the United States, as is reported, and no one tells us what he saw. RICHARD BIDDLE SEBASTIAN CABOT THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1837 September 4, Monday: Opening of the 1st (special) session of the 25th US Congress, with 129 Democrats and 119 Whigs. Representative James Knox Polk (Democrat of Tennessee) was still Speaker of the House of Representatives. Richard Biddle had been elected to this body as a member of the Anti-Masonic movement. During this special session called by President Martin Van Buren to deal with the urgent issue of the financial panic, petitions against the practice in the United States of America of human enslavement —not being considered such an urgent issue— were fated to be “discarded without consideration.” The following description of the general financial panic of this year is from Robert Allison’s THE ANECDOTES OF GLASGOW, published in 1892: During the commercial crisis and panic of 1837 which swept over the country, Glasgow, as a great mercantile and industrious centre, suffered severely. Prices of all kinds of manufactured goods sunk to nearly one half; many workers were thrown idle, and the wages of those still employed were reduced, which reduction again led to general and foolish strikes, at the instance of their trade unions; first, of the operative cotton- spinners in and around Glasgow, and soon after of the whole colliers and iron miners in Lanarkshire. The effect of these two strikes was to let loose, upon an already over-distressed community, above 80,000 persons, all in a state of utter destitution, and yielding implicit obedience to their trade leaders. To cope with this formidable and well-organised body there was, in and round Glasgow, a police force of only 280 men. Bands of 800 to 1000 men traversed the streets, with banners flying and drums beating; and the colliers assembled in such numbers as to render any attempt to disperse them, except by military force, out of the question. Many violent assaults were made on the nobs or new hands, who took place of the men out on strike, and at length, on the 22nd July of that year, a new hand was shot dead on one of the streets of Glasgow. The masters met and offered a reward of 500 pounds for the discovery of the persons implicated in the murder three days later two informers disclosed to the Sheriff a plot “to assassinate the new hands and master-manufacturers in Glasgow, one after another, till the demands of the combined workmen were complied with.” (As result the organising committee was arrested by the sheriff on 29 July at Black Boy Tavern, Gallowgate) On Monday following the cotton-spinners met on Glasgow Green, and by a great majority resolved to resume their work on the masters’ terms; and on Tuesday the courageous sheriff had the delight of seeing the whole of the tall chimneys in Calton and Bridgeton sending forth their wonted smoke, after a stoppage of three months. The trial of the cotton-spinners came on at Edinburgh on the 8th January, 1838; and resulted in the whole of the would- HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD be assassins receiving sentence of transportation for 7 years. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1839 Richard Biddle was re-elected to the federal House of Representatives. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1840 Richard Biddle resigned his seat in the US House of Representatives. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project The People of Cape Cod: Richard Biddle HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1847 July 7, Wednesday: Richard Biddle died in Pittsburgh. Per General Franklin Pierce’s campaign journal: Last night, at ten o’clock, there was a stampede, as it is called in camp. The report of musketry at the advanced picket induced me to order the long roll to be beaten, and the whole command was at once formed in line of battle. I proceeded in person, with two companies, to the advanced picket, and found no ground for the alarm, although the sentinels insisted that a party of guerillas had approached within gun shot of their posts. I have ordered that, upon the repetition of any such alarm, the two companies nearest the picket shall proceed at once to the advanced post. The long roll will not be beaten until a report shall be sent in from the commanding officer of the detachment, who is to take with him a small detachment of cavalry as couriers. This will secure the quiet of the camp at night, and at the same time afford protection against surprise. BAWTHORNE’S BIO OF PIERCE WAR ON MEXICO HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:RICHARD BIDDLE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1855 September 17, Monday: David Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, Richard Biddle’s A MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT, WITH A REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MARITIME DISCOVERY. ILLUSTRATED BY DOCUMENTS FROM THE ROLLS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED (London, 1831; Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1831). BIDDLE ON SEB. CABOT He would copy from this into his first Canada Notebook and into his Indian Notebook #9, and references to this reading are to be found in CAPE COD: CAPE COD: That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of PEOPLE OF Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the CAPE COD United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.
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