Posted on 05/28/2019 8:15:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, the newly-formed Republican Party controlled the U.S. House, Senate, and presidency. As was the case with most every state in what would become the Confederacy, my home state of Georgia cited slavery, Tepublicans, and the election of Lincoln as its reasons for seceding:
A brief history of the rise, progress, and policy of anti-slavery and the political organization into whose hands the administration of the federal government has been committed [the Republicans] will fully justify the pronounced verdict of the people of Georgia [who voted to secede]. The party of Lincoln, called the Republican Party under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. . . . The prohibition of slavery in the territories, hostility to it everywhere, the equality of the black and white races, disregard of all constitutional guarantees in its favor, were boldly proclaimed by its leaders and applauded by its followers. . . . [T]he abolitionists and their allies in the northern states have been engaged in constant efforts to subvert our institutions.
The Confederate States of America was formed at the Montgomery Convention in February 1861. For the southern states—and anyone else in the world paying attention—the agenda of the newly formed (and electorally victorious) Republican Party agenda was clear. Every party platform since the creation of the Republican Party had forcefully denounced slavery. After the infamous Dred Scott ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, the subsequent Republican platform strongly condemned the ruling and reaffirmed the right of Congress to ban slavery in the territories. On the other hand, the corresponding Democrat platforms praised the Dred Scott ruling and condemned all efforts to end slavery in the U.S.
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The lie that does not die.
No. Only 4 states can honestly be said to have cited "slavery" as their primary cause. The other 7 states of the Confederacy did not.
People have heard this claim repeated so often, that they simply accept it as true. People also tend to be unaware that Lincoln tried to get a Constitutional amendment passed which would protect slavery, and he did so in an unsuccessful effort to get the original group of seceded states to return.
Leftists have always been the world’s true racists!
I had no idea until recently that the first man to own a slave in America was a black man, by court decision.
I also didn’t know that there were states who did not end slavery until after the war, one being Delaware of all places.
https://www.maafa21.com/2014/05/29/50-years-of-civil-rights-why-ignore-racism-of-abortion/
1970 Democrat Racist Judge in Louisiana
...”The best way to hate a n****** is to hate him before he is born.”
Pro-abortion Leander Perez, Louisiana State Judge, 1970.
The Democrats have such a lovely history with racism
And delight in Abortion, go figure...
Most abortion centers are located near predominantly minority communities
Joe couldn’t “tackle” a one-legged whore!
Get off the plantation Americans.
The Democrats’ views on racial matters haven’t changed since the party was founded. Only the color of the hoods has changed.
And Joe Biden is trying to restore it.
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