[since 1854]

Republicans would be able to campaign more effectively by appreciating the G.O.P's heritage of civil rights achievement. They place themselves at great disadvantage by relying on history books written by Democrat professors.

[cripplecreek]

The death of Lincoln also allowed people who wanted retribution against the south to gain power.

[tkathy]

Every single republican candidate should remind people in every speech that the democrat party was the party of slavery, and the republican party was formed to fight slavery.

[RandallFlagg]

Very well said.

Welcome to FR

[MACVSOG68]

Thanks for the post. Some Republicans, even some here on this forum have forgotten that our Party was founded on the principle of freedom for all. It was our Party that freed the slaves, saved the Union and pushed through the 14th and 15th Amendments. I recommend Michael Zak's book, Back To Basics for the Republican Party for everyone.

That we let that great history slip between the cracks for many years is no reason not to reclaim our rightful heritage.

[Otho]

Reconstruction ended as a result of a compromise made to elect Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency over the Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden had won the popular vote and a plurality of electoral votes but some remaining electoral votes were in dispute. A commission was set up made of 5 Senators. 5 Representatives and 5 Supreme Court Justices -- 8 Rs, 7 Ds -- to adjudicate the matter. A compromise was reached in which the disputed electoral votes were given to Hayes in return for the end of Reconstruction.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_election.html

Better not to mention this.

[Let's Roll]

Ended slavery AND passed the Civil Rights Act.

If it had been left to dims like Al Gore, Sr. and the toon's mentor, Fulbright, there would have been no Civil Rights Act. Yet somehow the msm was allowed to appropriate the civil rights issue for the left and has never been seriously challenged on the truth.

[wizr]

Many of us are still slaves to the system. Freedom ain't free.

[cvq3842]

I love the headline of this article!

[mewzilla]

The Racist History of the Democratic Party

[Vectorian]

February 23rd 1807 is the equivalent day for the UK.

Slavery was always uncommon in Britain itself, but it took until 1833 to completely emancipate all slaves in Empire territories.

[conserv13]

You really can't compare Republicans or Democrats back then with those of today.

[Restorer]

Interesting article. Very one-sided presentation of historical facts, but interesting.

[nutmeg]

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[billbears]

The Democrat state governments set up by the Andrew Johnson administration quickly reduced African-Americans to near slavery with the infamous “black codes.”

LOL, not to be confused with the 'black codes' in Illinois, Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon.....some of which were still in existence as late as 2000. Or did Oregon not have a constitutional referendum in recent years to change their document? Tell us how black codes in Illinois (land of lincoln) quickly reduced the existence of African Americans from within the state at all

His e-mail address is Grand_Old_Partisan@hotmail.com.

Guess who's back. Hey, you got Wlat in there with you?

[rw4site]

The Emancipation Proclamation did not "free the slaves!"

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

It was to punish the Southern States for having a better trading relationship with Euorpe than the Northern States.

[Liberty Valance]

My Texas flag is flying today.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/lkj1.html

[Colofornian]

ended slavery

Gee, better tell those kids, etc. in Sudan; and the women & kids in Thailand & Eastern Europe & elsewhere under the bent-knee of rapists/forced prostitution industry that slavery ended 7 score ago..."you're free to move about the country."

[yuleeyahoo]

Today, Americans celebrate “Juneteenth” – when in 1865 slavery finally ended throughout the entire United States. Incorrect "Junteenth" - Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. Slavery ended in the United States on December 6, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Ammendment. Former slaves officially became citizens on July 9, 1868 with the ratification of the 14th Ammendment.

[freedumb2003]

I just learned what Juneteenth means today (native Los Angeleno, I knew May 5 wasn't a Mexican holiday from the time I was a child).

MUI Juneteenth is supposed to be a time when blacks and others celebrate the values of education, bettering oneself and the like.

As I noted, how sad it is that the invented phony baloney PC Hate-Whitey "holiday" kwaanzaa is "celebrated" across the USA while very few know about the much more important and truly real Juneteenth.

I am not a part of the Black community but this must be a massive shame. Juneteenth should be when we come together to celebrate our shared values and to ponder and plan for success for all of us -- together.

Something to think about...

[lonestar]

Junteenth is a Texas, not an American holiday. It was on Junteenth that word of the emancipation reached Texas.