Dixie tradition kept alive in Brazil enclave[Confederate immigrants]

The Washington Times ^ | 02 Oct 2007 | Anton Foek

[Colonel Kangaroo]

They feared majority black rule...not unlike South Africa or Rhodesia....many areas in the Deep South are majority black....some heavily so.....their fears were not unfounded.

It was a hard time with difficult solutions and many of both races suffered. But given that the Constitution guarantees a republican form of government, if people cannot abide being in the political minority our free society allows movement to a location more acceptable.

From what I've read, the Black Codes were foremost economic measures to control labor. The two southern state legislatures with significant numbers of poorer whites, Tennessee and Arkansas, did not pass such codes.

The solution was in Thaddeus Stevens' vision of independent small black farmers who would over time become politically allied to small white farmers. An ideal close to Jefferson's. A democratic republic can not thrive with a large class of landless serfs and an over powerful aristocracy.

Come down here and take a gander at Jackson Mississippi, Mobile Alabama, Montgomery Alabama, Memphis,New Orleans, Atlanta proper....or just go north at see Detroit.

Democrat rule has too often been rotten whether black or white, North or South. The goal of Reconstruction Radicals was not a society where blacks were economically at the mercy of the plantation crowd as the 19th century Democrats wanted nor a society where blacks were at the political mercy of race baiting Democrats that we see today. The Republican ideal was (and is) to see free men doing what was best to independently support themselves and in doing so, do what was best to build up a free safe and prosperous nation.

and you can't keep blaming us for that

we should work towards long term solutions insteads of self serving blame games dating back 150-400 years....I would start with black fatherhood....the lack of which is a far greater threat to all of us than the phantom of white racsim subtle or not that you seem glued to.

I don't blame the whole South for that. I blame the self-serving southern elite, greedy Yankees and timid Republicans in the Reconstruction era who blew the one chance to remake the South in the free labor American way.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

There were no “hot heads” sent to meet Lincoln to ask for peace. There were no “hot heads” summoned from the Virginia Peace Convention to meet with Lincoln. The only documented “hot heads” that had the power to force war were Northern governors and financiers, Gustavus Fox and Abraham Lincoln.

The "peace commissioners" were shakedown racketeers who operated at the point of a gun. When Tennessee rejected secession in February of 1861, Nashville's rebel rag lamented the fact that Tennessee was passing up the opportunity to join in the peace squeeze on the Yankee.

And your attempt to paint Lincoln as a Constitutional fundamentalist is put to the lie by Lincoln’s own, personal and documented words, (July 4th, 1861):

“I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional....whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and public necessity....”

His unconstitutional actions, though unchallenged and rationalized by him as being for the public good and appeals to God, remained what they were-violations of the Constitution

Unpatriotic southern Democrats from Jefferson Davis to Jimmy Carter have always wanted to bind Republican presidents while allowing the enemies of freedom to do their dirty work unhindered. And it's understandable why Confederate fans so resent Lincoln's actions so much. They prevented a successful quick power grab by the slaveowning political class.