Posted on 07/19/2020 9:21:31 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Its far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.
Last Sunday, I recounted that Bertha Levy Ochs, the mother of Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs, supported the South and slavery. She was caught smuggling medicine to Confederates in a baby carriage and her brother Oscar joined the rebel army.
I have since learned that, according to a family history, Oscar Levy fought alongside two Mississippi cousins, meaning at least three members of Berthas family fought for secession.
Adolph Ochs own Southern sympathies were reflected in the content of the Chattanooga Times, the first newspaper he owned, and then The New York Times. The latter published an editorial in 1900 saying the Democratic Party, which Ochs supported, may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Congress completed passage of the 13th on January 31, 1865 - well after the 1864 presidential election but before the second inauguration.
Unfortunately Lincoln did not introduce the abolition amendment when he served in Congress. Had he used his considerable story-telling abilities to peacefully pass the amendment at that time, it would have been unnecessary later to use the military to "fight to free the slaves."
Were the current “liberal” Jewish owners of the NY times also slave traders as inferred in the article? What should bother us is many of these same virtue signaling leftists who always blame poor white deplorables as the real racists, and of course white supremacists and much about our founding fathers as racist and evil. The left and their hypocrisy will eat themselves.
Another interesting article by Goodwin.
It sounds like you are saying it is unfair to judge great Americans of the 1860’s by the standards of 2020; to deny them all the learnings of the last 160 years.
To be blunt: you are right.
Let's put the statues back up.
You could take the floor of Congress for a year and the South where I live was not going to surrender their slaves. It took a war and countless deaths to free the slaves.
In the early 60's Blacks were growing into the middle class, had nuclear families but segregation and democrat Jim Crow laws still held sway and despite LBJ's "Great Society" actually because of it - put Blacks back on the plantation and all the subsequent social legislation kept them there permanently with few exceptions to this day.
For the timid of heart please avert your eyes:
Oops - Good post - sorry to miss you for #27.
Th54
I agree that people should be judged much more by the standards of their own time. The influence of the society that surrounds you on your beliefs is substantial.
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