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Slave in Jefferson Davis' home gave Union key secrets
CNN Online ^ | 2/20/09 | Barbara Starr and Bill Mears

Posted on 02/20/2009 1:45:46 PM PST by Non-Sequitur

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To: Non-Sequitur

There’s much more...this is a start.

Remarks of Thomas Jefferson, President of The United States of America To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. Washington, D. C. January 10, 1806

My friends and children, chiefly of the Cherokee Nation, I cannot take leave of you without expressing the satisfaction I have received from your visit. I see with my own eyes that the endeavors we have been making to encourage and lead you in the way of improving your situation have not been unsuccessful; it has been like grain sown in good ground, producing abundantly. You are becoming farmers, learning the use of the plough and the hoe, enclosing your grounds and employing that labor in their cultivation which you formerly employed in hunting and in war; and I see handsome specimens of cotton cloth raised, spun and wove by yourselves. ....

Go on, my children, in the same way and be assured the further you advance in it the happier and more respectable you will be.
Our brethren, whom you have happened to meet here from the West and Northwest, have enabled you to compare your situation now with what it was formerly. They also make the comparison, and they see how far you are ahead of them, and seeing what you are they are encouraged to do as you have done........

My children, I thank you for your visit and pray to the Great Spirit who made us all and planted us all in this land to live together like brothers that He will conduct you safely to your homes, and grant you to find your families and your friends in good health.

_________

Lincoln

One would find it hard to refute that Abraham Lincoln’s political idol was Henry Clay. Lincoln would say of Clay; “During my whole political life, I have loved and revered Henry Clay as a teacher and leader.” Lincoln delivered the eulogy at the funeral for Clay. When elected President, Lincoln set about implementing Henry Clay’s political philosophies.

Throughout Clay’s political life he was a strong believer in National Socialism and a complete racist in all references to the American Indian. As Secretary of State Clay would declare: “The Indians’ disappearance from the human family will be no great loss to the world. I do not think them, as a race, worth preserving.”

This mentality lead to the forced walk of all Cherokees from the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma during the winter of 1838. Over 20,000 Cherokees were dragged from their homes, which were then plundered and burned. They were force marched most of them barefooted to Oklahoma during the dead of winter with the sky for their blanket and the earth for their pillow. Over 4,000 Cherokees died on this march and it became known as the “Trail of Tears.”

Similar atrocities occurred all through the Lincoln Administration. In 1862, the Santee Sioux of Minnesota grew tired of waiting for the 1.4 million dollars they had been promised for the sale of 24 million acres of land to the federal government in 1851. Appeals to President Lincoln fell on deaf ears. What made this even more egregious to the Sioux was the invasion of this yet unpaid for land by thousands of white settlers. Then, with a very poor crop in august of 1862, many of the Indians were hungry and facing starvation with the upcoming winter.

When Lincoln outright refused to pay the owed money, remember he had a war to finance the Indians revolted. Lincoln assigned General John Pope to quell the uprising and he announced at the beginning of his campaign: “It is my purpose to utterly exterminate the Sioux. They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people with whom treaties or compromise can be made.” Lincoln certainly did not challenge this statement.

The Indians were quickly defeated in October of 1862 and Pope herded all the Indians, men, women and children, into forts where military trials were immediately convened. None of the Indians tried were given any semblance of a defense. Their trials lasted approximately 10 minutes each. All adult males were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death with the only evidence against them being they had been present during a “war” which they themselves had declared against the government.

The authorities in Minnesota asked Lincoln to order the immediate execution of all 303 males found guilty. Lincoln was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans, whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side of the South. He offered the following compromise to the politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota with 2 million dollars in federal funds. Remember, he only owed the Sioux 1.4 million for the land.

So, on December 26, 1862, the Great Emancipator ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.

Lincoln’s western armies, using the tactics of murder, rape, burning and pillaging, simultaneously being used against Southern noncombatants by the eastern armies, turned their attention to the Navajos.

Lincoln’s policies of taxpayer-supported railroads would lead, not only to the attempted annihilation of the Indian, but to tremendous scandals in the administration of another of Lincoln’s war criminals, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant, like Lincoln, handed out his “political plum” appointments of Indian Agent to cronies who proceeded to gain tremendous wealth by selling supplies and stealing money that should have gone to the Indians. [snip]

http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/issues/lincoln.html


61 posted on 02/21/2009 9:01:42 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: AuntB

So in other words you have no quotes from Lincoln showing what you claim. Why not say so?


62 posted on 02/21/2009 1:35:01 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I never said I had ‘a quote’. I gave you the information to find what you need, you don’t want to see it. You are never satisfied...go ahead and fight that stupid war for another 150 years, but you’re not going to do it with me. They were at WAR...they were POLITCIANS...even Lincoln. They all sucked!


63 posted on 02/21/2009 1:42:44 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Ditto

‘Even in the 1860s, that information could be in Washington in a day. They had the telegraph, you know.’

For some reason I doubt the telegraph office in Richmond accepted telegrams to the North from a slave.....


64 posted on 02/23/2009 6:15:03 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: yazoo

‘I think you are right on the tactical point, but I think strategically it could have been of value. Since Union generals before Grant tended to vastly over estimate the strength and size of the Confederate armies one wonders how much information was really passed. This would, it seems to me, been one of the key bits of intelligence the slave/spy would have been privy to, and passed.’

I long ago concluded that Alan Pinkerton was either sympathetic to the South, or the single most incompetent ‘spy master’ in world history.

Nothing else ‘fits’.


65 posted on 02/23/2009 6:17:26 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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66 posted on 02/23/2009 11:40:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Fascinating -- Demwit water carrier Amazon doesn't carry the book, or at least, it doesn't turn up in a search. I first searched by title, got a bunch of hits that didn't match, along with a list of common related searches with the author's name (i.e., I'm not the first to look there for it) and got no hits. The author's name by itself also turned up bupkis.

This one turned up, a CIA publication:

Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War Black Dispatches:
Black American Contributions
to Union Intelligence
During the Civil War

by P.K. Rose


67 posted on 02/23/2009 12:06:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide
NY Times | January 23, 2007 | NOAM COHEN
Posted on 01/23/2007 6:46:55 PM PST by neverdem
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68 posted on 03/05/2009 5:53:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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