Posted on 06/20/2016 8:47:28 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
This is a continuation of the list of steps benevolent Republicans took to help the slaves held by Southern Democrats.
On January 8, 1867 the Republican Congress had to override Democrat Andrew Johnson’s veto of a bill to give District of Columbia African-Americans the right to vote. The following July it had to override another Johnson veto of another Civil Rights bill designed to help African Americans.
When the Republicans began an impeachment trial of Democrat President Johnson in March of 1868, his answer was, “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men.”
In May 1868 the Republicans introduced the first two African Americans to be Presidential Electors.
In September 1868 the Democrats in the Georgia State Legislature expelled all twenty five of its African-American members. They were only restored on direct orders from the Republican controlled United States Congress.
Later that same month almost 300 African Americans who were trying to protect a Republican newspaper editor from an angry mob of Democrats were killed.
On October 22, 1868, Arkansas native James Hinds, a Republican Congressman, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while he was campaigning for re-election.
In the Presidential campaign of 1868 Democrat Presidential candidate Horatio Seymour ran on a platform of denouncing the Emancipation Proclamation.
On February 3, 1870 with just 3% Democrat support, the Republican House passed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution granting all male Americans, specifically including African Americans, the right to vote.
May 31, 1870 Republican President U.S. Grant signed the Enforcement Act which called for stiff penalties...
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Frankly, I am not about to endorse revised discussion of the Reconstruction Politics in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War loss by the South to transmogrify that to some mystical relevance of Democrats and Republicans of today.
The Civil war did not even start over slavery.... maybe we should start by getting that straight.
Demoncrats ALWAYS back slavery, then and today.
AnD TODAY, the DNC backing of Islamic rape, slavery and
terror is ONLY matched by the odious, lying GOP.
Uniparty = Slavery, THEN and NOW.
It makes them part of a national unofficial identity that wanted to maintain subjugation on one part while still punishing recalcitrants on the other because of economics and power.
Had something to do with the election Lincoln, yes?
There is a point here hat I will never understand. You talk about some instances of racial segregation created by the southern democrats. I can remember a couple more. The Jim Crow Laws, the using of the count of black slaves to give southern democrats more people under their state capacity giving them more federal voting rights to continue segregation, and the efforts of the southern democrats to vote down the Equal Rights Amendments in the mid sixties. Yet blacks continue to follow them around like puppies on a leash. Why side with the continuing bigotry? red
Had something to do with the election Lincoln, yes?
But only after the first two years of war. For the first two years of the war, the Union was only fighting to stop Independence for the South. They were going to keep slaves in slavery if they had won quickly in those first two years.
People keep getting their history mixed up with propaganda.
This is a subject I discuss often. Prior to 1964, Black voters mostly voted Republican. After 1964, there was a mass Exodus of Black voters over to the Democrat party.
Now how do you suppose that happened?
I know, and I will tell you, but I wanted to hear your answer first.
LBJ Great Society poverty pimp campaign masterfully pander ed to blacks of that Era in 1964.
To wit:
“I’ll have those n1ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” - Lyndon Baines Johnson about the Great Society plan.
RE: “After 1964, there was a mass Exodus of Black voters over to the Democrat party.”
Civil rights act of 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Why did the southern states secede?
Because according to this: (Founding document of the United States.)
"... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "
They had a right to do so.
They felt the existing Union no longer represented their interests.
“After 1964, there was a mass Exodus of Black voters over to the Democrat party.”
There was also a mass exodus of “Southern Dems” to Republican party.
So what are we to think?
That didn't start in 1964. That started in 1980 with Ronald Reagan.
If not slavery - the peculiar institution - then what?
In 1863, President Lincoln freed the slaves. In 1933, President Roosevelt bought them back.
If one is looking as assign blame for African Slavery, it’s home grown.
The continent was plagued by tribal conflict from its earliest days where the practice was to execute prisoners of war.
Then one enterprising Tribal lad grasped that there was money to be made in selling prisoners as slaves.
So up stepped the Arab Corsairs from Jeddah, and presto you had a transportation system.
The Portuguese, British and Americans came more than 1200 years later.
The R’s and D’s had nothing to do w/it.
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