A little night dig on History, Ingersoll Lockwood (Baron Trump book authoer) & the 1890s
Looking at this book makes me think of the scene in Wag The Dog where they write and record the song and get it placed in the Library of Congress.
Who is Lockwood?
According to a Heavy article (great sauce) he was born in Ossining NY in 1841, died in 1918 at age 77.
Ossining notes: Sing Sing Prison opened there in 1826. Ingersoll’s Dad (Munson) was the Warden of Sing Sing from 1850 – 1855.
Ingersoll, a lawyer, in 1862 was appointed Consul to the Kingdom of Hanover by Abraham Lincoln.
Obituary states that he was a member of the “Sons of the Revolution” which was founded in 1876 in New York City. This groups mission is: “To perpetuate the memory of the men, who in the military, naval and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of the Country, and to further the proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records, and other documents relating to that period; to inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of the forefathers; to promote the feeling of friendship among them.
So back to the Baron Trump book. Published in 1893, so we assume it was written between 1890 and 1892. What was happening at that time?
From the Living City Archive. Does this sound Familiar? In 1891 in NYC: “This was also a period of intense social, economic, and political anxiety in the United States. Growing social and economic pressures posed by industrialization, sprawling urban cities, violent labor uprisings, economic depression, fears of middle-class "race suicide," the changing structure of American authority, and a fractured sense of American unity all fueled growing nativist sentiment in the United States. The nation was gripped in the beginnings of an effort to contain a growing sense of disorder, a sense that immigrants, garbage, unionism, corruption, and vice were all exceeding the bounds of their containment and that those bounds must be reestablished. In New York City, in 1890, Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives-a photo documentary of ghetto conditions that would have national impact. The following year, Josiah Strong pointed out that "a mighty emergency is upon us." A number of national movements sought to contain a growing sense of disorder. The immigration restriction movement-lead by the Immigration Restriction League founded in 1894-attempted to stem the tide of the new immigration.”
“With the immigration law of 1891, the federal government took complete authority over immigration and created the machinery for federal officials to inspect and exclude immigrants."
Other items of note :
December 15, 1890: Sitting Bull, legendary Sioux leader, died at 59 in South Dakota. Killed while being arrested in the federal government's crackdown on the Ghost Dance movement.”
December 29, 1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West. After Wounded Knee, “The ghost dance took a place in history at the end of a long chapter in American history, as it seemed to mark the end of Native American resistance to white rule.”
Read this which made me think about how long the “Fake News” has been at it. “The spreading fear of the ghost dance movement was picked up by newspapers, in an era when publishers such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were beginning to champion sensational news. In November 1890 a number of newspaper headlines across America linked the ghost dance to alleged plots against white settlers and U.S. Army troops.
An example of how white society viewed the ghost dance appeared in the form of a lengthy story in the New York Times on November 22, 1890. It was headlined "The Ghost Dance" with a sub-headline "How the Indians Work Themselves Up to a Fighting Pitch.”
1891: P T. Barnum dies at 80.
1891: Sherlock Holmes appears.
1891 – Herman Melville dies
1892 – Walt Whitman dies
1892 – John Muir founds Sierra Club
1892 – Lizzie Borden did her thing (acquitted in 1893)
1892/93 – Grover Cleveland elected
1893 – Edison finishes first motion picture studio
1893 – Chicago World’s Fair
1893 – NYSE Great Panic began the triggering that lead to the Great Depression
Pretty much all hell starts to break loose at this point
Any almonds activated? History factors heavily into this shit. AND, it’s repeating.