Posted on 01/18/2019 2:50:51 PM PST by tjd1454
“the Obama administration held them in detention centers until they could call a relative in the US to come and get them. The “relatives” were rarely vetted; as a result, the phone numbers the children were told to use were to traffickers, who pretended to be relatives to gain possession of them.”
Interesting, I had not heard about that. Those poor kids were at the mercy of their “relatives.”
It was not widely reported in the MSM, for obvious reasons. The truth of the unaccompanied children illegal aliens does not fit the narrative that they are just looking for a better life, etc.
The left that enables these human rights abuses is despicable.
You lie.
Excellent post.
For one, my Great Grandfather Martin, a cavalryman from Michigan. He suffered from malnutrition in a Confederate POW camp.
My Great Grandfather Martin was drafted. I have his pension records that reflect that.
Be careful what you wish for. Look what the Democrats did to Libya and Syria when they tried to make thing better.
No he doesn’t. The Corwin Amendment passed the Northern dominated Congress AFTER the Southern delegation withdrew with the necessary 2/3rds supermajority and was signed by the president.
in 1861, Congress passed a resolution stating that the war “is not waged on our part...for interfering with the rights, or established institutions of these [the Confederate] States”...meaning slavery.
“Lincoln remained unmoved. . . . ‘I think Sumner [abolitionist Charles Sumner] and the rest of you would upset our applecart altogether if you had your way,’ he told the Radicals. . . . ‘We didn’t go into this war to put down slavery . . . and to act differently at this moment would, I have no doubt, not only weaken our cause, but smack of bad faith.’ Vindication of the president’s view came a few weeks later, when the Massachusetts state Republican convention—perhaps the most Radical party organization in the North—defeated a resolution endorsing Fremont’s proclamation.” (Klingaman, Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, pp. 75-76, emphasis added)
“The problem with this lofty rhetoric of dying to make men free was that in 1861 the North was fighting for the restoration of a slaveholding Union. In his July 4 message to Congress, Lincoln reiterated the inaugural pledge that he had ‘no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.’” (McPherson, Ordeal By Fire, p. 265)
“My Great Grandfather Martin was drafted. I have his pension records that reflect that. “
Well great. Mine volunteered.
“For one, my Great Grandfather Martin, a cavalryman from Michigan (was fighting against slavery).”
Why? Slavery, sad to say, was enshrined in the United States Constitution, the one that President Lincoln twice took an oath to preserve, protect and defend.
In fighting to overthrow slavery, President Lincoln and his troops were fighting to overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution.
A better course of action would have been to peacefully abolish slavery before the war began using the amendment process that was thoughtfully included in the original constitution. In that way, the war and all the killings and hard feeling may have been avoided entirely.
Now you are adding to his BS? He basically said, “the North ........passed the Corwin Amendment, protecting slavery forever!” Nonsense.
No such Amendment was ever ratified. In addition, he stated that the “proposed” Corwin Amendment was intended to “protect slavery forever”. Whereas the actual intent of the “proposed amendment” was to protect slavery from the Federal Government and to make the matter an issue for each individual State to decide upon.
And finally, we come to your statement. You seem to imply, by omission, that Lincoln signed it. Please share with us which president actually signed it.
The Northern dominated Congress passed the Corwin Amendment with the necessary 2/3rds supermajority and the president signed it. The president in office at the time was Buchanan. I never said anything to the contrary.
Lincoln for his part not only never opposed it, he used his political influence to get several states to ratify it (5 to be precise). It was never passed because the Southern states refused to accept it or vote on it.
Lincoln couldn’t have been more clear. The Northern dominated Congress couldn’t have been more clear. They were not threatening slavery. They had no intention to do so. They believed they had no power to do so. They were willing to offer explicit constitutional protections for slavery that would - as everybody knew - have been irrevocable without the consent of the slaveholding states.
Plainly, neither secession nor the war were “about” slavery.
And never, ever forget the crime they bring with them. About 6 months ago my niece was sitting in the passenger seat of her truck while filling it up with gas when a Mexican man walked up, grabbed her arm, and tried pulling her to a waiting car with other Mexican men in it. She’s a rough and tumble girl and immediately kicked him and jumped in the truck and locked the doors. After, she immediately drove to the police department where she knows everyone because she does the fund raisers for their police dogs. They told her they had had about 10 reports on the same car.
A lot of this kind of info is not even released to the public. She lives in a tourist town and they don’t want anything out that would hurt their tourist industry.
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