The deeper point missed by all is that the Texas Republican Party was in that era founded by blacks in Texas.
Republicans are the only true advocates of black rights. Democrats have demonized black people for decades and launched an anti constitutional war to refuse those rights.
A local celebration thanks everyone involved except the 2,128,948 Union soldiers who made it happen and the 360,222 Union soldiers who lost their lives due to wounds and disease.
Why do Thaddeus Stevens wannabes here always grab macho southern nicks?
Republicans always effing great
Rah rah