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This Day in History… Republicans Pass Anti-KKK Act – Outlawing Democratic Terrorist Groups
Gateway pundidt ^ | Apr 20th, 2014 8:01 am | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/28/2016 5:27:16 PM PST by null and void

On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and schoolteacher for ex-slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friend, and in response, Democrats went on a “Negro hunt,” killing every African-American (all of whom were Republicans) in the area they could find. (Via Grand Old Partisan)

On April 20, 1871 the Republicans passed the anti-Ku Klux Klan Act outlawing Democratic terrorist groups. The Miller Center reported:

On April 20, 1871, at the urging of President Ulysses Grant, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act. Also known as the third Enforcement Act, the bill was a controversial expansion of federal authority designed to give the federal government additional power to protect voters. The act established penalties in the form of fines and jail time for attempts to deprive citizens of equal protection under the laws and gave the President the authority to use federal troops and suspend the writ of habeas corpus in ensuring that civil rights were upheld.

Founded as a fraternal organization by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan soon became a paramilitary group devoted to the overthrow of Republican governments in the South and the reassertion of white supremacy. Through murder, kidnapping, and violent intimidation, Klansmen sought to secure Democratic victories in elections by attacking black voters and, less frequently, white Republican leaders.

In related news – Republicans led the charge on civil rights and women’s rights.

This list was originally compiled by Michael Zak at Grand Ole Partisan and then posted at Free Republic:

September 22, 1862: Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

The Democratic Party continues to Support Slavery.

February 9, 1864: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

June 15, 1864: Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

June 28, 1864: Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

October 29, 1864: African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

January 31, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

Republican Party Support: 100% Democratic Party Support: 23%

March 3, 1865: Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

April 8, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate

Republican support 100% Democrat support 37%

June 19, 1865: On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

November 22, 1865: Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

1866: The Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves

December 6, 1865: Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

*1865: The KKK launches as the “Terrorist Arm” of the Democratic Party

February 5, 1866: U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves

April 9, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law

April 19, 1866: Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

May 10, 1866: U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no

June 8, 1866: U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no

July 16, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

July 28, 1866: Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

July 30, 1866: Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

January 8, 1867: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans

March 30, 1868: Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”

May 20, 1868: Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

1868 (July 9): 14th Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as U.S. Citizens

Republican Party Support: 94% Democratic Party Support: 0%

September 3, 1868: 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress

September 12, 1868: Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress

September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

October 7, 1868: Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”

October 22, 1868: While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan

November 3, 1868: Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office

February 3, 1870: The US House ratifies the 15th Amendment granting voting rights to all Americans regardless of race

Republican support: 97% Democrat support: 3%

February 25, 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first Black seated in the US Senate, becoming the First Black in Congress and the first Black Senator.

May 19, 1870: African American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

May 31, 1870: President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

June 22, 1870: Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South

September 6, 1870: Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell

December 12, 1870: Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first Black duly elected by the people and the first Black in the US House of Representatives

In 1870 and 1871, along with Revels (R-Miss) and Rainey (R-SC), other Blacks were elected to Congress from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia – all Republicans.

A Black Democrat Senator didn’t show up on Capitol Hill until 1993. The first Black Congressman was not elected until 1935.

February 28, 1871: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

March 22, 1871: Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

April 20, 1871: Republican Congress enacts the (anti) Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans


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1 posted on 02/28/2016 5:27:16 PM PST by null and void
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To: null and void
A real republican.


2 posted on 02/28/2016 5:29:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: null and void

That’s powerful stuff.


3 posted on 02/28/2016 5:30:39 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: null and void

But yet it’s the MSM and Democrats who call Republicans racists.


4 posted on 02/28/2016 5:33:31 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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5 posted on 02/28/2016 5:44:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: SkyDancer
But yet it’s the MSM and Democrats who call Republicans racists.

That's because every time a rat opens his mouth, he lies. For them, it comes naturally. Why tell the truth, when a lie will do?

6 posted on 02/28/2016 5:54:50 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: SkyDancer

The fact that the Republican party has completely surrendered to the Democrats over this issue is mind boggling.

With hundreds of years of history of being slave owners and racists, the Democrat party gets 90% of black voters and the Republicans are labeled racists.

Republicans are totally incompetent when it comes to fighting Democrats and controlling the narrative.

7 posted on 02/28/2016 5:59:10 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: null and void

Thank you for posting the list. The list is why there are Democrats who seriously insist that the two parties changed names over the years. With no reasonable explanation for their long bloody history,they choose to propagate the fantasy that Dem ideology which liberated the slaves was, at that time, called Republicanism and that Repubs ideology was at that time Democrat. But social shifts etc. caused the two change places! YES! I’ve seen it argued. Unbelievable! And that argument was put forth on the web vigorously even as the debate about former KKK leader (Dem) Senator Byrd was in full swing!


8 posted on 02/28/2016 5:59:49 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: SkyDancer

“But yet it’s the MSM and Democrats who call Republicans racists.”

And they will continue to call Republicans racist as long as Republicans aren’t as pro “minority” as Democrats.

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The term “racism” was invented by communists. Leon Trotsky was one of the first to use it. When whites engage in favoritism toward other whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.

Racist is an interesting word, after all who are the real racists? A person that loves their race, is proud of all it’s accomplishments, wants to live with their own kind and preserve their heritage? Or is a racist someone that is trying to destroy someone’s heritage through mass foreign immigration, diversity, multiculturalism and race mixing?


9 posted on 02/28/2016 5:59:57 PM PST by Ultima
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

“The fact that the Republican party has completely surrendered to the Democrats over this issue is mind boggling.

With hundreds of years of history of being slave owners and racists, the Democrat party gets 90% of black voters and the Republicans are labeled racists.

Republicans are totally incompetent when it comes to fighting Democrats and controlling the narrative.”

Most blacks do not care what Republicans and Democrats did a hundred years ago. They care about who is going to give them more gibs today which is evident by the way blacks have voted for the last fifty years.


10 posted on 02/28/2016 6:02:59 PM PST by Ultima
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To: null and void

Great post... Thanks null...


11 posted on 02/28/2016 6:06:56 PM PST by GOPJ ("during ... time of universal deceit, telling the truth became a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: null and void

nice list, now hang it up in the hallway of your local high school and see the reactions!


12 posted on 02/28/2016 6:09:33 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: null and void

It’s just proof at how good the rats have become at turning the truth around totally backwards.

I mean, even today, The Affordable Care Act is just the opposite of what it actually is.

Or take shaming people for “white privilege” and how racist they claim it, when actually it is a racist attempt at trying to shame people down to their level.

The dems are sick evil people out to destroy the US.

The only bunch more sickening and more evil are the RINO’s that are aiding and abetting them. Those folks are outright traitors, which is why Trump is so popular which is why the GOPe is worried. I’d love to see trials where they are tared and feathered, then run out of DC on a rail.


13 posted on 02/28/2016 6:31:25 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: null and void; All

OUTSTANDING post; GRRRRRRREAT thread. BTTT!!!


14 posted on 02/28/2016 6:41:06 PM PST by PGalt
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To: ransomnote
You're referring the libs Dixiecrat and southern strategy argument to explain way the Dem's KKK past. They'll say that all these Dixiecrats/racists left the Dem party in the mid 20th century when they became upset at where the party was going.

What they don't mention is that over 90% returned to the Democratic Party and only a handful switched to the GOP years later. They also say Nixon tapped into the southern Democrats to win his election, because those Democrats were former Dixiecrats and the GOP won the south for decades thereafter.

What they don't mention is GOP presidents just before (Ford) and after Reagan (Bush, Bush2) actually struggled to win the south decisively, especially when going against Carter and Clinton (2 Democratic southerners)

15 posted on 02/28/2016 6:51:29 PM PST by paltz
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To: Ultima
Most blacks do not care what Republicans and Democrats did a hundred years ago. They care about who is going to give them more gibs today which is evident by the way blacks have voted for the last fifty years.

1965 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - the Great Society - the beginning of the welfare state.

Johnson had a comment that he would own the n----- vote for the next hundred years with welfare. He wasn't wrong.

16 posted on 02/28/2016 6:54:37 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: null and void

You know what would be great. If Republicans knew their own ding dong history. That would be great. The painful part is that the data is a mouse click away. Yah, Abraham Lincoln - progressive, humanist, anti-slavery, anti-exploitation, anti-monarchist, anti-aristocracy, anti-ruling class American. Get used to it.


17 posted on 02/28/2016 6:58:16 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: paltz

Thank you - I appreciate the background.


18 posted on 02/28/2016 7:05:06 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: Ultima

The democrats seem to have made the best of some really stupid republican moves and turned the tables on them.

We all now get to reap what the GOP has slowed.

How ironic.


19 posted on 02/28/2016 7:06:43 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Ultima

Brilliant


20 posted on 02/28/2016 7:31:42 PM PST by Cats Pajamas (Any time now Hillary will be bring out the rent-a-dogs!)
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