Posted on 07/12/2015 3:40:12 PM PDT by DWW1990
In 1854, around one single issue—opposition to slavery—the Republican Party was formed. As historian David Barton notes, “The Republican agenda was clear, for every platform since its inception had boldly denounced slavery. In fact, when the U. S. Supreme Court delivered the 1857 Dred Scott ruling protecting slavery and declaring that Congress could not prohibit it even in federal territories, the Republican platform strongly condemned that ruling and reaffirmed the right of Congress to ban slavery in the territories. But setting forth an opposite view, the Democrat platform praised the Dred Scott ruling, and the continuation of slavery, and also loudly denounced all anti-slavery and abolition efforts.”
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It greatly saddens me that too many people don’t know their history.
The Republican party was formed to fight slavery. Democrats were in favor of slavery.
Democrats were the party of Jim Crow laws in the south. Democrats fought decisions such as Brown vs. board of Education.
It was a Republican president , Eisenhower, who sent federal troops to enforce a school integration court order.
Proportionally, more Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964,than did Democrats.
A key senator who helped break the filibuster on the Civil Rights Act, Everett Dirksen, was a Republican.
Yet against the backdrop of facts such as these, blacks vote almost unanimously for Democrats, and tell us that the Republicans are racist, while Democrats are the tolerant open party.
Yeah, the Dems worship at the altar of “tolerance.” As Chesterton noted, “Tolerance is a virtue of a man without convictions.” And as Mr. Thomas has put it “What better describes a modern liberal than a ‘man without convictions?’”
After the war, the South became all Democrats. When WHEN did African-Americans start voting democrat? Remember Condi Rice? She said her dad was a republican. I bet all blacks in South were republicans even if not allowed to vote. Did it flip after 1964
Yes Condi Rice has told the story of how Republicans helped her grandfather register to vote in the Jim Crow south. That’s how her family came to be Republicans.
It may have taken longer in the south, but nationally blacks first went Democrat for FDR in 1932.
[It greatly saddens me that too many people don’t know their history.]
And never were we taught in school the origin of slavery in the U.S. The first black slaves were owned by Free Blacks. According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia. The majority of black slave-owners lived in Louisiana and planted sugar cane.
Patently false. The biggest faction, the Whigs, where up to their eye teeth in the slave trade and in all of the financial support that the Southern economy depended on. The only faction that supported emancipation in place with citizenship was the smallest faction, the Liberty party, which was led by the former governor of Alabama. The other two main factions, the Free Soil party and the Anti-Mason party were opposed to the spread of negros, and only opposed slavery for that reason. And let's not forget most of the Republicans were also members of the Order of the Star Spangled Banner (a.k.a the "Know Nothings").
I made the same point where this is basically like Dred Scott. If I was a SC Justice, I would have voted against it and write that the Constitution left these matters to the States and/or the people themselves to decide.
Educate yourself:
The Republican Party platform of 1856 read,
“That, with our Republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the primary object and ulterior design of our Federal Government were to secure these rights to all persons under its exclusive jurisdiction; that, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our National Territory, ordained that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, it becomes our duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in the Territories of the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislation, of any individual, or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained.” (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29619)
In 1860:
7. That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom: That, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that “no persons should be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,” it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to givelegal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
9. That we brand the recent reopening 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... (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29620)
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