Republican Party Platform (1860)
NINTH. "That we brand the recent reöpening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity, and a burning shame to our country and age, and we call upon congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic."
Regarding the so-called election of 'Confederate President' Jefferson Davis; as all of us know there was never a traditional popular election and nobody has been able to step forth a 1861 popular election vote tally.
At least Lincoln was elected in a national election just as Grant, Harrison, LBJ, JFK, Nixon, & the rest of the American Presidents were, not hand picked by a pack of soar losers representing the South's cotton empire which only functioned because of slave labour.
One of the more well known high priests of the neo-Confederate movement is Thomas J. DiLorenzo, a promoter of modern secessionist, an arch promoter of the Southern platform in 1860, and chief propagandist for 'neo-Confederism' DeLorenzo and his type deliberately ignore the facts that the South illegally succeeded over the issue of maintaining and expanding slavery.
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union: "In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation."
President Lincoln justifiably reacted to a pro-slaver insurrectionists triggering the Civil War. Liberating the slaves came some two years later, but (selected) Jefferson Davis & (selected) VP arch-bigot Stephens fought to preserve slavery, thus preserving their corporate bottom line in the rebelling Cotton Empire.
The secessionists pro-slavery Confederate leaders were not totally defeated in 1865, for in 1877, after federal troops were mistakenly withdrawn from former slave states, a new form of 'neo-slavery' began with the 100 years of the South's Jim Crow 'legal' discrimination against fellow Americans enforced by criminal terrorists like the KKK.
Example-1931: "I experienced my first involvement with racism in the business when we played Jacksonville Florida in 1931. I knew there was segregation in southern theaters, but was not fully aware of the pain that it caused until then.
"After the show I decided to walk. As I came to the corner, I saw a black man of about eighty coming toward me. When he reached me, he jumped out into the gutter. Thinking he'd seen a snake or something frightening, I jumped into the road with him,where upon he jumped back onto the sidewalk and so did I. We did this dance routine about three times before I grabbed his arm and said, "What the Hell is going on Pop? Why are you leaping up and back like a jumping bean?" Frightened, he answered, "Sir, in this city a black man musn't walk on the same side of the street with a white man." "Mister," I told him, "this is not my city, but it's my country and I can walk with any man I choose to."
"I put my arm about his shoulder and forced him to walk with me around the corner. He said. "Man, you seem nice, but you're liable to get us killed." I tried to clam him, and then let him go on his way and continued walking.
"When I went back to the theater the manager stated, "We don't want any N*****lovers in our theater or in our city, so get movin' before you get in big trouble!"
"We left Jacksonville in disbelief and headed back to New York."
Page 53 & 54 'Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges', by Moe 'Horwitz' Howard, 1977, Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey.
One side note, if Moe & and the boys for example, had been in Germany a few years later, Jews, under Nazi German law, were forbidden to walk on the sidewalk if a German were passing. The similarities between Jim Crow 'laws' and Nazi 'laws' pertaining to Jews & others are horrifyingly similar in numerous respects. States of terror for victims of the 'law'. German law resulted in ovens, Jim Crow law, mob lynchings with 'police' participation.
Moe and the other Stooges would have been murdered for simply being born Jewish. In the Jim Crow South, a man could be murdered for simply being black or vocing objections about 'legal' Southern segrigation.
"If real Americans living in the South in 1860-1861 questioned the decision by a few to rebel against their country, they were likewise threatened, ridiculed, and coerced."
The very same mob rule exists today in areas under control by radical Islamic terrorists.
"Today, they hide behind loads of BS and screen names, but they are the same punks."
One in particular still gets his demented kicks from calling some Americans 'Negroes'. You know who you are. There's always an open invitation to come up to the real world anytime, and spout off your neo-KKK segregationist crap, anytime, slug.