Posted on 08/24/2020 9:20:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 08/24/2020 12:12:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
++++++++++ you godless heathen!!!!
ARF! :-)
The constitution specifically prohibits it.
Section 10 Clause 1 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Another is the fact that the worst race riot in U.S. history took place in New York City about the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. The anti-drafters were beating or lynching any Black person they could get their hands on. The mayhem didn't end until a large contingent of the victorious Union Army from Gettysburg arrived in the city to quell it.
Here are a couple of other interesting little anecdote I discovered talking to people while researching ancestors in eastern Tennessee and Kentucky.
One old: central and east Tennessee had a lot of pro-union sentiment as well as slaves who took up arms for the confederacy. It was a very confused place. The town of Crossville has a monument to Civil War veterans who fought on both sides. One man in the group actually did fight on both sides. Admiral Farragut was born and raised in a town near Knoxville. He even has a museum there. One of the guides in the museum answered my question on why slaves took up arms for the south. There were as many reasons as there were cases, but the two most common (according to her) were (1)masters that promised emancipation for military service and (2)a resentment by the slaves themselves about their homeland being invaded when they could see they were better treated as slaves than the hired help.
One new: During the racial turmoil of the 1960s, central and eastern Tennessee were largely untouched. When I asked why, I was told that when a busload of agitators came to town, it was generally the local Blacks who told them to move on. They got along fine with their neighbors and didn't want any trouble.
I think I have a better view of this due to the unique circumstances of my origins
I was born in Germany in 1958 and was adopted by an American family and brought over here when I was about 2 years old. Later on I was naturalized.
For years my mom told me to look up my German relatives which I never did.
Now, let’s conduct a thought experiment.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that I did look up my blood family and found out that some my blood mother’s siblings and relatives were members of the Nazi party and not only that but some of them were members of the SS and were involved in atrocities.
Here’s the question: as their descendant do I inherit the guilt for their actions?
Awaiting your response.
Figures. All of my ancestors were cations.
I had a conversation recently with a gentleman who told me about how he had met a black man who was wearing a pro-Nathan Bedford Forrest jacket. Turns out that the man’s ancestor had ridden with Forrest (there were a number of black men who did).
Your typical lib historian would have you believe that they were just cooks and teamsters. The way NBF and his cavalry moved, they couldn’t be slowed down with cooks and teamsters.
Funny,black dems never condemn dems for their embrace of slavery,Jim crow and segregation....They also never condemn Africa for their part regarding slavery....
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