Posted on 08/06/2010 9:54:52 AM PDT by Michael Zak
Grand Old Partisan salutes John Bingham, principal author of the 14th Amendment and a great REPUBLICAN.
Writing yesterday in The Washington Monthly, Steve Benen accused the GOP of going "From the Party of Bush to the Party of Jefferson Davis." His point, it seems, is that questioning whether the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born in the USA of people here illegally is akin to advocating slavery. Such absurdity is not worth refuting. I will, however, point out a fact that Benen overlooks -- the Party of Jefferson Davis is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Indeed, the Democratic Party was the Party of Slavery, and Democrats were known as "Slave-ocrats" by the GOP. Yes, Jefferson Davis was a Democrat, as were all the Confederates. Not one Republican fought against the Union during the Civil War.
In yesterday's Washington Post, E.J. Dionne accused the GOP of shedding a birthright. Like Benen, he argued that the framers of the 14th Amendment -- all Republicans, by the way -- had in mind what Dionne and Benen and so many other Democrats say they intended back in the 1860s.
The Democrats opposed the 14th Amendment yet now assert that they know best what Rep. John Bingham (R-OH) meant when he wrote it.
By ignoring the heritage of our Grand Old Party, Republicans place themselves on the defensive and make themselves vulnerable to Democrat demagoguery, such as the latest from Benen and Dionne.
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The Ministry of Truth would be pleased.
An inconvenient littlf fact that the Dems would like Americans, especially black Americans, to forget.
Grant’s wife’s family were slave owners and Grant himself owned a slave named William Jones, given to him by his father-in-law.
Who caes? This is nonsense. The parties of 150 years ago bear absolutely no resemblence to the parties of today that bear the same names.
It’s also their favorite President (FDR) who put a Klansman on the US Supreme Court.
Next up, William Fulbright, Al Gore Senior, Robert Byrd and all the rest of those evil Republicans that tried to keep blacks from voting..
Grant set that man free, even though he was unemployed at the time.
So was Grover Cleveland who cut taxes, busted urban political machines and unions, and fought government subsidies for business.
“Grant set that man free, even though he was unemployed at the time.”
Well, before he could set him free, he had to have owned him ... huh?
Yes, I’m a Big fan of that BIG man, Stephen G. Cleveland.
It was easier for him to do things, since he was two presidents.
Grant’s wife was the one who inherited the slave, and Grant set him free.
Yeah boy!
Now the RATs have the Black Panthers and other race-baiters to do voter intimidation for them instead of the Klan.
“He is a very smart, active boy, capable of making anything... I can leave him here and get about three dollars per month for him now, and more as he gets older.” - US Grant 1858 (Simon, v1. p344)
Grant’s wife was the one who inherited the slave, and Grant set him free.
Ah yes. The old "but it belongs to my wife!" excuse.
Or why as president, he attempted to annex the Dominican Republic as a place to deport all the ex slaves.
Grant was a Democrat then. He voted for Buchanan.
Julia Dent Grant came from a slave-owning family and was an apologist for slavery throughout her life and the Civil War. The Grants owned slaves that came from Julia’s father and Grant himself was responsible for supervising them. These slaves were not freed until 1865 when Missouri officially abolished slavery.
Grant actually owned one slave himself as well:
Grant himself owned a slave named William Jones, acquired from his father-in-law. At a time when he could have desperately used the money from the sale of Jones, Grant signed a document that gave him his freedom.
Grant freed this slave in 1859.
Robert E. Lee came from a slave-owning family, but upon his father-in-law’s death, all those slaves were freed (this was 1862 before the Emancipation Proclamation). In a letter to President Pierce, Lee wrote that “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”
So what is comes down to is the Grant family owned slaves longer than the Lee as the slaves in question were from Julia’s family, not Grant’s personal slaves. That being said, of course, in that day and age, that meant Grant was in control of them. It is interesting to see that both of these men - the two opposing Civil War generals - were slave owners at one point or another in their lives.
http://www.american-presidents.org/2007/02/grant-was-slave-owner.html
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