Hope you guys are able to catch the History Channels special about the facts leading up to this famous duel of pistols.

I had a preconceived idea that the founding fathers of our nation got along well together. I was suprised to learn of the dislike and mis-trust among them.
This special shows the underhanded and dirty politics of the 1800 election that makes anything happening today pale in comparison.
The newspapers(the main media of the time) was used like a sword among these founding fathers to try to slay the charactor of each other. Calling each other traitors, etc.
It was definitely shown that the newspapers were politically influenced in those days as well as today.
Could be that nothing truely changes only the faces.

thats interesting. What was the dividing line then? today it is consevative/liberal, what was it back then?

You could go back even further with journalistic smearing to the federalists and the anti-federalists.

trav, you can learn more at...
http://www.multied.com/elections/1800.html

or

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=582

Originally posted by Dan Fussell
trav, you can learn more at...
http://www.multied.com/elections/1800.html

or

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=582

even though that was for travh, i still thought it was interesting.

Glad you did jere, its for everyone.

Thanks for posting, and thanks for courtsey.:D