Funny but the first piece you posted about the 48ers discussed their desire to have a republic and defend liberty. Now you post some pure propaganda that simply implies that they were socialist. The fact still remains though that it was Confederate democrats who formed the People’s party (a socialist party) after the war which then went on to merge with the democrat party and gave rise to the fascist progressive movement. Of course both the Confederate democrats and the Progressive democrats revered the Coven or klavern of the KKK and both continually fought to undermine the Constitution.