Ping.
Wow... I never knew about this.
I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I have not said anything about politics today. I don’t propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office.
Obviously a conservative racist whose lying to the black folk as usual.
(tyical leftist response)
CSA cavalry's favorite weapon...
Southern ping
A man I would gladly have followed into battle.
And the yankees will being showing up shortly to contradict this ,,,,,,
Not this one again. I’ve seen the organization identified as “Independent Order of Pole Bearers” and the “Jubilee of Pole Bearers”. It’s been called a fraternal organization and at civil rights organization and a para-military organization. But the only time it is ever mentioned in any documentation I’ve ever seen is in connection with this alleged Forrest speech. No other mention of any kind. The story is most likely apocryphal.
This sounds similar to what Glenn Beck refers to as a person's pivot point.
The pivot point occurs when a person experiences an epiphany of conscience or a life altering event that turns them.
Beck looked for and found a pivot point in Shirley Sherrod but he can't find it in Van Jones or Andy Stern.
Nathan Bedford Forrest did not found the Ku-Klux Klan. How many times must that historical error be corrected?
I can only imagine...have been on vacation a week..I see I missed NeoYankee anti-semites approving of Grant’s abuse of Jews
Old thread. But after seeing this speech quoted so many times over the past few years and wondering about its authenticity, I decided check into sources from the period.
On another discussion board, someone mentioned that perhaps it was quoted in the Memphis Daily Appeal.
I checked the Library of Congress website and found that Forrest’s speech was quoted in the Memphis Daily Appeal on July 6, 1875. I have pasted a link below.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1875-07-06/ed-1/seq-1/
For the record, I am not taking part in any debate about the proper legacy of Forrest — I just found the debates about the authenticity of this speech interesting. I thought the link was worth posting here because I have not seen a link to a digitized document from the period in question in other discussion threads covering this speech.