The Great Senate Scandal: William Blount
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- The Impeachment and expulsion of Senator William Blount is little remembered today, but it represents an important legal watershed, and caused a literal brawl on the floor of congress. It was perhaps the greatest scandal in the history of America’s upper house.
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After growing up in Blountville, TN, then living for 30 years in Blount County, TN I learned more about William Blount in the last 15 minutes than in the last 68 years.
Glad you could make it 😉
Had you gone to the high school named for him in Blount County, you probably would have picked up most of it. Our civics/US government teacher was pretty well versed in it and found it interesting that he had a school named for him so long after his time period.
@@possumverde Being in a county named for him not as surprising a high school was named for him as the elementary school next door is named for his wife. Back in the 60's Tennessee history was taught in Jr High and getting into the negatives of famous Tennesseans was not a thing. The Blount countian that was more focused on in those days was Sam Houston. Blount County is a great place to live and is rich in history.
Need to watch and learn. “”We The People”””. They work for us, we do not work for them.
A grifter in high office -- I'm shocked!
I wonder if Blount is related to a recent US president.
@@craigaust3306 *current.
No politician past or present could be more crooked than the Orange Idiot.
@@fightingidiocy7724 Do you have the downs?
It is amazing our constitution has survived politics
Ummm, let's talk again after the 2025 inauguration, shall we?
Yeah but it didn't. The US died somewhere between the end of the civil war and the progressive era before WW2. Thanks to the 17th amendment we're now just a corporate-political oligarchy.
@@dougburt2449relax, regardless of who wins the constitution will survive. Losing our nation or democracy is all fear mongering bloviating
@@dougburt2449Exactly
It’s amazing that humankind has survived politics!
As a resident of Blount County Tennessee, I can attest to the fact that TO THIS DAY Tennesseans have a UNIQUE way of getting things done and are fiercely protective of our own.
As a former Blount Countian and lifelong east Tennessean, I can confirm this. There's no other place I would want to live.
That's nothing to be proud of 😢
It's good to be reminded that, as bad as current political turmoil is, our forebears faced much the same division and somehow muddled through it.
Most had some character and placed country over party.
@@icanreadthebible7561also dueling was an acceptable practice
I first learned of William Blount in Tennessee History class back in the early 1970's, but for some reason (LOL), our Tennessee History book neglected to tell this very colorful part of the story! Great video!
And my Tenn history class did the same thing, here in East TN.
Isn't it 'special' how history is re-written without regard to factual evidence? Pretty soon we'll all be referring to slavery as 'on the job training' and ratting out our neighbors for exercising their freedom that doesn't effect us in any way except that we can speak up and send them to jail. A big 'A' that doesn't mean adultery. *
Same here. TN politicians haven’t changed much.
You are kidding right? There is no way Tennessee was going to give you the whole story in 1970s.
@@Wextopher it literally was OJT though, pretty much all slaves post-emancipation went to work in the exact same trades they'd worked before
Blount's home in Knoxville, Tennessee, the first frame house built west of the Appalachians still stands and is a museum. It is an excellent example of a "civilized" house that once was surrounded by log dwellings. Definitely worth a visit.
I could think of 20 or 30 senators that should be impeached !
similar behavior of our modern-day politicians.
Good morning from Ft Worth TX History Guy and everyone watching. To all those affected by Hurricane Beryl, stay safe.
Prayers! from 3rd gen So CAL! but Knott one of "them".
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Good morning THG and fellow history fans!
Good Morning.
Sadly how history keeps repeating itself. This case wouldn’t surprise myself to happen in our very close future.
Indeed. The names and dates may change but the story Remains the Same
Meet the new boss....same as the old boss😢@HM2SGT
😅👍 Rebranding! @@williamwigfield7296
' "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
it happened 7 years ago and is still happening guess who
Taiwan has just all out brawls during their parliament sessions. So much that I wouldn't be surprised if the physical strength of the candidates matters. Can you imagine? "We have to elect Abe Lincoln, he's the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try him, go on and whet your horns."
Think they've had a few donnybrooks in Great Britain as well.
It would definitely get a lot of the women out of politics.
@@calvinhobbes6118
Reminds me of memes of guys saying "hold my beer." Not seen many moments with women doing that...
@@calvinhobbes6118
Would keep out most except "antifa" types...
Jefferson Davis starts sharpening his horns like he's the Bugs Bunny Bull...ended about as well, too.
*Everything old is new again. No surprise. **_Centuries of tradition completely unimpeded by progress!_*
The progress was the creation of the country and the several years after
Once Jefferson became president it took a drastic downward shift and never quite recovered
Mostly due Burr murdering Hamilton
I used to live in Blount County, Tennessee which is named after him. Funny thing, they never talk about him or his "activities" there.
Very true. I am a Blount County resident and former Tennessee History teacher. This incident is never mentioned, even in the local paper's weekly History column. It is a shame that more is not known about him outside academic circles he really is revered as a great Tennessean.
My oldest daughter teaches Freshman English at William Blount High School. There is also a Mary Blount Elementary School.
Our US gov teacher at the high school named for him there used to tell the stories about him. That was long ago though.
@@Ryan-up5nv He's a terrible Tennessean, but at the same time in good company since they all still defended him even after finding out he was a dirty traitor
He's one of the main reasons that Tennessee will always play second fiddle to Kentucky
Informative, articulate, entertaining. You sir, are a jewel.
National Interests vs. Personal Interests. The beat goes on.
Not the last time, of course, that a violent fight would break out on the senate floor. As for Blount, the most painful part of this for him had to be losing George Washington's friendship the way he did.
That's okay, as much as I carry water for Washington he was kinda a dick to people once he didn't need them anymore
Look into what he did to Thomas Payne one of the reasons we even had the revolution
I live just down the road from Blountville and have often wondered whom this nice little town was named after.
Interesting parallels.
Very prescient considering the senator menendez trial that is finishing up.
Thanks for posting. So Senator Blount attempted to engage in "Land Piracy" ? Because don't all good stories involve pirates?
I live in Blount county TN, we have a high school named William Blount
I always enjoy the information of your video, but I also wanted to say your video editing and composition is superb as well.
Be careful, THG, the spammers and otherwise misinformed are ready beginning to descend on you/us!
Great post, thanks as always!
Thank you for making this!
i don't remember who said this but, "The government that governs least governs best." I think it may have been Jefferson.
Indeed. But in this Modern Age with the attitude that it is necessary to pad all the corners of the world and legislate safety for your own good like it or not, need it or not, want it or not... 🤷
The parasitic opportunists will always find a way to sleaze their way in
@@HM2SGT- The problem is Government oversight and regulations actually protects the top corporations against competitors who are trying to get into the business. It's very anti entrepreneurship and un-capitalist which is equal to undemocratic. That's why big corporation like Boeing or Apple are fully protected from any competitive threats since they can take whatever penalties or even given incentives by the Government that props them up over any upcoming start-up company.
Airplane or Starship?
Jefferson is literally responsible for us having big government
@@victorkreig6089 The *_Government_* is responsible for us having a big government. He qualifies as a life form; reproduces, it feeds, it defends and protects itself... 😅
"I Love!" our Living Constitution!
It would be very educational and interesting if you could explore and present the polarity shift between Republicans and Democrats in the mid to late 80s. 40 years ago doesn't seem like that long, but back then the South had been the Bastion of the yellow dog Democrats since the conclusion of the war between the states and the invasion of the carpet baggers. The Republicans are the party of lincoln, the party of the yankees, and nowadays they are the party of the south. Food for thought
I believe you need to go back to LBJ and the Civil Rights legislation. LBJ has been quoted as saying while signing the legislation that the South will turn Republican. Which led to Nixons' "Southern Strategy".
@@dougburt2449 🤔🧐 intriguing. I shall have to do some research & investigate further
@@dougburt2449 you and another have reminded me of a book from the early 60s, the hidden persuaders. Essentially the examination of how even then it was known that campaigns were like politics meets Mad Men.
It's more on the shift of voters than the party. Most of the Slave owning plantation lost money after the civil war. Most sold their farms and moved north to start their new business with the money they had. Most black used to be in the south too but a majority moved into the north. Majority of those in the southern farms are taken by people from the North to escape the collapse of the car industry and also the 60's hippies trying agriculture.
Do you think people like President Eisenhower who broke the school segregation in the south, Walt Disney, John Wayne, former NRA head Charlton Heston who marched with fellow Republican Martin Luther King jr. for equality in the 60's would turn Democrat today? Even JFK's rather Conservative administration would be called Right-wing in todays standard.
@@inisipisTV I think people are far too focused on the label. I think it's mildly amusing to hear and read people denigrating the label of the other guys dogma when that label applied to their region not so long ago.
Thank you for the information about William Blount. I was aware of some it.
I love your channel,
Doug Burt
Blount County, TN
Yet another reason why your efforts are wonderful.
How was this ‘missed’ by my school or was I sleeping?
Another history lesson someday I wish to research:
How Native Americans were lied to repeatedly and pushed towards the barren lands of the southwest from the southeast.
Love your videos
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I enjoy your historical videos. Thank you.
A politician intent on lining their own pockets?!?! Whoda thunkit! I'm so glad we don't have anyone like that in political office now..... Hint -- the preceding was satire.
Agreed. Our Government is so shockingly corrupt that believing there is even one legitimate public servant in the house or senate is difficult.
If they don't go along with the corruption the others destroy them, if they go along they get millions. All the incentive for a Federal politician is to be corrupt and not put the people first.
And politicians are just as dirty today.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
Your daily participation is as much a tradition as the rancorous division and polarization of the government
Great episode!
Is Governor Roy Blount of Tennessee descended from him?
Good one
I'm not sure what you mean. Apologies if I missed the reference. No "Roy Blount" has been governor of Tennessee. Willie Blount, William Blount's half brother, served three terms as Governor between 1809 and 1815.
I think you mean Missouri
@@juliemcneeley8923 It was Blunt (MO)
@@cg6348 the Missouri Blunts, of course, spell their surname differently. I can’t find any evidence that they are related.
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That story ended Blountly !
Well that is a sucky way to get your name in a prominent historical position. Have to say I'm glad we no longer see such behavior between members of congress as open physical fights which does still happen around the world.
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Another great one!
Politics in the early days was a contact sport.
I wonder if there are still fireplace tongs in the chamber…
Blounts actions sound like what a lot of politicians have done
Tennesseans defending a literal traitor to the ENGLISH of all nations is one of the craziest things to ever happen to this country
Thank you, History Guy
1:47 Horatio Gates? As in Horatio at the Gate? Hmmmm.
No, HG - the on-the-take from the Brits US Major General prepared to turnover the Mississippi R to them.
@@robertgerrity878 Well yeah, that too.
Wow. So choosing "party over country" is not a recent thing. We're so often told that politicians in the past would not be so concerned over power, and do the right thing. History shows us that's not true. Just like today even when evidence is overwhelming, maintaining power of their party is the only concern. At least, when it comes to a certain party.
Wow! Politics were just as bad, if not worse back then.
Opportunists exist in all places
What a minute… he was paymaster for an army that didn’t get paid, and commissary officer for an army that didn’t eat, and was at two battles that the US lost?? Whose side was this guy on?
the great state of Tennessee has surely had its fair share of scoundrel senators. 🙂
As has many other states. I doubt there are few states that have never had a Senator give them a “Maalox Moment.”
@@dwightshepherd5239, I wonder if any Tennessee politicians are having a "Maalox moment" after seeing "Not-sees" march through Nashville the other day.
@@goodun2974Again, as has happened in many other states as well. And, while too many of those idiots actually were from Tennessee, a large number came from outside the state. Just like when it happens in other states.
@@dwightshepherd5239 , such idiots have a tendency to congregate in places where their idiocy will be tolerated without having to physically defend themselves, and where they might have a shot at picking up new members who are sympathetic to their "cause". Also note that none are brave enough to uncover their faces.
@@goodun2974natzis in Nashville! Whar?
The good old days. When people knew what was right and wrong.
Fascinating historical reality: politicians from Ancient Rome to our day often have Mr. Bount's self-interests at heart. It should worry us all that "Member of the House" has replaced "Representative" for how our Congress-persons refer to them selves.
Yet there is a County, roads and multiple schools Named after him.
The Republican Party was established in 1854. Using the term "Republican" in this instance is confusing to those ignorant that it was actually Democratic Repubicans that existed back then. It's a different animal.
Republicans are fine,it its the Magas that are treasonous..
that can serve as a good reason to learn more about history. speaking about history without filtering it for a presumed ignorant audience is beneficial for everyone.
@@Cs13762
You mean using the correct term, Democratic Republicans?
Your comment can be read to mean both ways, it is vague.
The parties of course have changed still more since the Democratic REpublican split anyway.
@@b_uppy a party is an ideological side, consisting of all those who adhere to the stated ideology. Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution obligates the United States to guarantee a republican form of government for the States. 1787 is well before 1854. What was established in 1854 was a political organization to advance the republican ideology through the anti-Constitutional, democratic elections.
Dear THG, what an appropriate article for fans of the Senate.
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It's intriguing perhaps, to ponder what "The History Guy' (Mk. XII) might tell us about Impeachment, Obama, Trump, Biden, Bush and the Clintons, and needless to say, quite a few others in the USA now, a century on from today ...?
Typical Senator... these days.
Why am I not surprised that a revered founding father of Tennessee was actually a gangster.... 😂
I think we should think of a new Amendment, so that impeachment is not always political. If that is possible.
He was a relative of mine on my grandmother side
Ahh- the "other" interests......
There is also a Blount Co. North Carolina.
'Tis a pity Congressmen no longer carry walking sticks.
That pic of Mathew Lion... wha?
An American, inciting Indians to help the British to grab land from Spain. To put it blountly.
Punny, punny.
I think this is more of what we need to see today. senators and Congressmen duking it out with walking canes and fireplace tongues.
Born in Blount County, Alabama down the road from Blountsville, Alabama, both named for William Blount.
Neither a senator nor representative is a civil officer, Likewise neither is the president nor vice president. For this reason alone Section 3 of the 14th Amendment cannot be used against either as it precludes insurrectionists from holding civil office. All of the aforementioned are constitutional officers as they are elected.
Is this the namesake of Blount elementary in Wilmington, NC? Just curious.
Hey from Memphis. I wonder if he had added pirates to his allies he would have had better success.
I'm from Blount ville. Who knew?!?
Or as we Blountville natives pronounce it, Bunvul.
@@421Rider absolutely
@@TRIChuckles It's not just us either. When I lived in Blount County I learned that the proper local pronunciation of Maryville is Murvul.
I love East Tennessee.
Who is Roy Blount? Any relation? Amazing how the aame family names turn up for 100 - 200 yrs.
Roy Blunt is a former senator from Missouri. So far as I can find there is no relation.
Very Interesting. I wonder just HOW he died?
In those times, it was quite normal and expected that government officials would use their office to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. this had been the practice in England and the English colonies for centuries, so Blount undoubtedly felt that he was doing nothing particularly unusual of immoral.
There was no Republicans until Abraham Lincoln!
The Democrat-Republicans were different that the modern republican party, yes.
Right on!
Do you think you could talk about the Alton/Bethalto Indian massacre?
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Who’s here after the Menendez conviction?
...and today we struggle to put down an ongoing insurrection, which should not be difficult to do. The necessary laws/policies/procedures/tools to protect these United States of America were already firmly in place, but have yet to be used effectively. I fear that the end of our republic may be relegated to history which deserves to be remembered. 😔
Incredibly, our supposedly most learned minds struggle to define, or perhaps even attempt to muddle and obfuscate, the meaning of *insurrection* as written in the Constitution. This might be a case where we should apply the Supreme Court's standard that was once applied to pornography: " I can't define it but I know it when I see it". I fail to understand how any supposedly legally trained mind could look at the events of January 6th and not see an insurrection.
What are you blathering about?
Al Gore did the exact same thing. Democrats called for the pausing of counting electoral votes. I know most of you have the attention span of a goldfish, so I'll help you remember.
@@iLumberjack Thank you for your respectfully worded question.
I am "blathering" about how checks and balances today are not as effective as they were in the presented story. The existential threat currently faced by the United States of America (the Trump insurrection) is even worse than the Blount scandal, and I am deeply concerned for our future.
@@iLumberjack You can't tell, huh? My goodness. How sad.
So, attempting to impeach someone who no longer holds office is a pointless bit of theater?
You don't say.
Funny thing ain't it? When it's your idea it's high-minded statesman ship & a sober necessity. When it's the other guys idea it's a farcical waste of time, money and effort.
@@HM2SGTand now you know the rest of the story
@@dougburt2449 😄👍 miss his programme
@@dougburt2449 Lol
@@HM2SGT In a cynical kind of way, I find it reassuring to know that those who are "elected" have always been incompetent and corrupt, in exactly the same ways.
Keep this in mind before the 17th amendment in 1913 US Senators were assigned by state legislators. Nobody voted directly for senators.
Can you please make a history video compilation of accidents and crimes that prove that not everything that happens to us is the result of our individual karma or failed responsibility? That would be so helpful to the health and welfare of these people, including me. We're all so deluded by the idea that we're completely responsible for whatever happens to us because we want to believe that our right action will save us forever and I know that you of all people know better than this; that this is not true.
i prefer the old intro.....
Isn't this the incident that forced Andrew Jackson to invade and secure Spanish Florida for the United States?
A Bill Passed In The Senate...
Rest in peace, Bill.
A small boy parks his bike near the senate and walks off.
A policeman stops him and asks: 'Why did you park your bike here? Don't you know about this road? Many important politicians, cabinet members, even the President, and other such politicians pass through here..'
The boy replied innocently: Don't worry, I have locked my bike.'
The entire US Senate visited the White House today.
I wonder how many short buses that took.
House, Senate, Republican, Democrat...
Different animals, same💩
OUTSTANDING!
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Did he lose the $300k payroll or steal it ?
I think it was captured by the British.
Seems the corruption started early on and still continues to this day !!! this guy lost 300k in Army payroll, yeah right !!! It went to his other back door dirty dealings
I don't think you have to keep including your sources in the narrative. For example you don't have to say, "according to......."
Yes, i have to reference direct quotations.
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Ask a Younger person who Spiro Agnew was ....N.E.A. needs defunded.
Ummm, there's only so much that can be presented in grades 6-12.
I got an idea. YOU write a history book starting around I don't know 1600 and write the history of the United States so that it can be taught in a 1 hr. class during a school year.
I wish we would return to this style in confress. Could you imagine how quickly Jerry Nadler would be dispatched after one of his weaselly comments? Or Ikhan Omar after saying "somepeople did some thing"
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