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Emporer Of United States ! - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 13th Aug, 2004 - 5:08am
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Emporer Of... The United States?!?
Did you know that the U.S.A. once had an Emporer?
https://www.knauer.org/mike/discordia/norton.php
It's a great story.
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| Joshua Abraham Norton (1819-1880) Emperor Norton - Live Like Him Joshua Norton, or as he preferred to be called, Norton I, proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859. Althought a pauper, he was fed free in San Francisco's best restaurants. Although a madman, he had all his state proclamations published in San Francisco's newspapers. While rational reformers elsewhere failed to crack the national bank monopoly with alternate currency plans, Norton I had own private currency accepted throughout San Francisco. When the Vigilantes decide to have a pogrom against the Chinese, and sane men would have tried to stop them, Norton I did nothing but stand in the street, head bowed, praying. The Vigilantes dispersed. "When the proper man does nothing (wu-wei), his thought is felt ten thousand miles." - Lao Tse Although a fool, Norton I wrote letters which were seriously considered by Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria. "You must take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face." - W.C. Fields Although a charlatan, Norton I was so beloved that 30,000 people turned out for his funeral in 1880. |
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