1818, Jefferson wrote: “It is an error to view a tax on that liquor [wine] as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the midling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their houses. No nation is dru...
We think not.Daniel O'Connell(1775-1847), "Liberator of Ireland", led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, allowing Catholics to become members of the British House of Commons. As a leader, O'Connell had moxie, brains, drive, patience, organiza...