Virginia's response to Harper's Ferry, compared to the US response to 9/11
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Question: Virginia’s reaction to harpers ferry compared to 911.
Loved your well thought out and thorough question. However there can be no comparison between the two events. As you so beautifully described 911 brought the country together as it was interpreted an attack on all. John Browns raid had the opposite effect. It tore the country apart. The South sponsored domestic terrorism for years in burning Kansas its no wonder their actions grew a matching response among abolitionists fighting against the agents of the south in Kansas. That’s who John brown was. What was most shocking though to the south was that Brown had financial backers in the north as well as many admirers. This infuriated the south who could think of no worse fate than a slave revolt. When Nate Turner lead his revolt he killed women and children. That agents of the north would try to organize such and that such a man as Brown enjoyed popular support in the north demonstrated once and for all there could be no reconciliation. In the presidential election of 1860 the south basically did not participate. Rather than supporting the democratic candidate who gave them a chance to win they chose to support a third party candidate from the south which ensured Abraham Lincolns republican victory and ultimately the civil war.
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The two are not at all comparable IMO.
Before the civil war, members of US Congress were literally engaging in pugilism, with occasional duels, and did so chiefly over slavery. Moods calmed down, and more or less stayed calm, after the Civil War. The disagreements between the pro- and anti-slave camps were public and vivid, and the Civil War could euphemistically be described as a means to settle long standing disagreements by coming up with an (at gun point) solution to them, and I'd gather no one then was very surprised when events went into full swing.
Post 1990, by contrast, there was nothing even approaching that mood or awareness within the US, or between the US and the rest of the world. The 90s were a rather optimistic time where influential intellectuals were predicting no less than the end of history -- by which they meant capitalism and liberal democracy has won, move along, nothing else to see. There were precursor signs that Al-Qaeda wasn't friendly with the US -- and indeed, prior attacks -- but there was no public expectation that the US might go to war in the Middle East over anything of the sort, and no expectation -- in the public, anyway -- that a major terror attack might occur on US soil.
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