Democrats and Civil Rights

Major Lies Revisited: Democrat Race Lie

The 'Crat Race Lie is a doozie. It reveals the callus ignorance and contempt of the electorate that liberals depend on for votes and POWER.
United States History of Racism Against Blacks

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 specifically to oppose the Democrats, and for more than 150 years, they have done everything they could to block the Democrat stinking racist progressive/populist agenda. In their vulgar abuses of power, Republicans have even had to resort to threats and military violence to thwart the Democrat Party’s attempts to screw this up into a progressive country. Listed are the following Republican atrocities that span three centuries, imagine if you will, what a far different nation the United States would be had not the Republicans been around to block the Democrats’ efforts to screw up the US into progressivism/popularism.

In windbag speeches...
Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal ...opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve ...worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil ...Rights laws, and every law that protects workers. ...Most recently, Democrats stood together to ...reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, blah,blah.
AND
On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight. We support vigorous enforcement of existing laws, and remain committed to protecting fundamental civil rights in America.
The race lie is repeated by Democrats on a daily basis, if not hourly and the State-run media and other legally-blind "watchdogs" are so informed of American history, that they do not call Democrats on it. So Democrats continuesly propagandize their constituents, and via public schools run by unions and college professors, to our youngsters. The unvarnished truth has been apparent for ages, yet the truth will NOT out all by itself until some over-paid and over-rated news reading anchor gives us a scoop or a "heads up expose" dredging up all those "elusive" facts as if it happened yesterday, enabling he/she to proudly be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Reporting.
Civil rights history has been written about time and time again. Listed find another group of historical talking points that refute Democrats' staked out claims of civil rights backing. Recall that Democrats swear they “are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws” and blah, blah, blah.

Originally organized in the winter of 1865-66 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a social club by six Confederate veterans, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized white Republicans and African Americans.

Georgia rice planter, Confederate general, and Democratic candidate for governor in 1868, John B. Gordon headed the Ku Klux Klan in his native state.
Gordon was (Said to be) responsible for the Fort Pillow Massacre of 1864, in which Confederate troops murdered black Union soldiers after they had surrendered, Lt. General Nathan B. Forrest of the Confederate cavalry later served as Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan's threats of violence terrorized black and white Republicans.

This cartoon sent a threat to a carpetbagger from Ohio, the Rev. A. S. Lakin, who had just been elected president of the University of Alabama, and Dr. N. B. Cloud, a scalawag serving as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Alabama much the way SEIU does today although Robert Byrd is the only KKK known to be in the Democrat Party.

After prolonged controversy and behind-the-scenes negotiations, Democratic and Republican leaders worked out a solution to the disputed election of 1876. In the Bargain of 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became president, and he, in turn, recognized Democratic control of the remaining Southern states and promised to end federal intervention in the South. United States troops who had been guarding the state houses in South Carolina and Louisiana were ordered to return to their barracks (not to leave the region entirely, as is widely believed). The Redeemers, as the Southern Democrats who overturned Republican rule called themselves, now ruled the entire South.

Similarly, after prolonged controversy and behind-the-scenes negotiations including out-and-out bribery, Democratic and Republican leaders worked out a solution to the Democrat Health Care debacle that will endeavor to enslave the nation for four years of paying for health care not funded until 2014 during record unemployment and unprecidented business bankruptcies and banks taking over banks. The federal employee and auto unions paid nothing into the Travesty System, but were allowed to keep their Congress-type "Mercedes" Health Care packages. A Florida Attorney General calls it a "tax on breathing" since citizens will be charged for no product except being alive."

The governor who "redeemed" South Carolina from Republican rule, Wade Hampton (1818-1902) was born in Charleston, the son of a prominent member of the planter aristocracy. In the 1840s, his family began acquiring land in the Mississippi Delta, and in 1860 Hampton owned 900 slaves there.

During the Civil War, Hampton won fame as a Confederate cavalry commander. He emerged from the war as one of the state's most popular figures, and although he refused to be a candidate for governor in 1865, a write-in campaign on his behalf was only narrowly defeated.

Saddled with enormous debts, Hampton played little part in politics for most of Reconstruction. He did try to "direct the negro vote" in 1867, and when unsuccessful, denounced Reconstruction as unconstitutional and advocated removing the freed people from the state.
In 1876, Hampton became the Democratic candidate for governor. He pledged to expand the state's educational system and protect blacks against violence, but his supporters launched a campaign of intimidation that neutralized South Carolina's large Republican majority. Both parties claimed victory, and Hampton became governor as part of the "Bargain of 1877."

As governor, Hampton favored a paternalistic policy toward the former slaves, and appointed a few blacks to minor positions. He was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1878, serving until 1891.
In 1876 in South Carolina, Democrats launched a campaign of terror and violence in an attempt to wrest control of the state from the Republican Party.
A call for South Carolina's black citizenry to protest "The Hamburg Massacre," in Edgefield county, refers to Gen. Matthew C. Butler, the area's most prominent Democrat, who led hundreds of armed whites in an attack against the town's black militia in early July, 1876. Five black men were murdered after being captured.

Among those listed to speak at the rally was Robert B. Elliott, former congressman from South Carolina.
Robert Elliott was a brilliant lawyer who was admitted to the South Carolina bar and elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1868 during Reconstruction. In March 1869, Elliott was appointed assistant adjutant-general, becoming the first black commanding general of the South Carolina National Guard.

His duties included the formation and maintenance of the state militia--often called the black militia--to protect white and black citizens from the murderous, fast-growing Ku Klux Klan. He served as United States congressman from 1871 to 1874. In 1876, Elliott was elected state attorney general, but with the withdrawal of federal troops and the subsequent end of Reconstruction, he was forced out of office a year later and returned to private practice.
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/490/Robert_B_Elliott_a_talented_political_force/




On March 20, 1854. opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party to fight Democrat racism.

On May 30, 1854, Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, which further expanded slavery into U.S. territories. Those opposed to slavery, band together to form the Republican Party.

On June 16, 1854, newspaper editor Horace Greeley, who is most famous for,"Go West Young Man!" called on slavery's opponents to unite in the Republican Party.

On July 6, 1854, the first state Republican Party was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, specifically to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies.

On February 11, 1856, Republican Montgomery Blair argued before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott. Republican Montgomery Blair was later chosen by President Lincoln for his Cabinet as Postmaster General.

February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

On May 22, 1856, for denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy and poor-mouthing a Brooks relative who was ill, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) was severely beaten on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC) with a cane, required three years to recover.

March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

During Lincoln-Douglas debates, on October 13, 1858, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL) stated, “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”. Apparently he did not seek the abolitionist vote or knew the press would leave that tidbit OUT of his lengthy rebuttals. Nevertheless, Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee for president.

October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”.

On June 4, 1860, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address called,"The Barbarism of Slavery".

On April 7, 1862, President Lincoln ended treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade as Britain was aiding the Confederacy trading goods for cotton and Southern products.



When President Lincoln signed the bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. The "FOR" vote was in Congress with 99% of Republicans voting "yes" or "aye" but 83% of the Democrats voted, "no" or "nay".
A reminder:
“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”
On July 17, 1862, despite unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act declaring that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”.
States in Confederacy, i.e. Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, and Virginia.
On January 1, 1863, as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) helped draft the historic," Emancipation Proclamation".

On or about October 29, 1864, African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth spoke of President Abraham Lincoln, “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”
On January 31, 1865 the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives banning slavery with unanimous Republican support, BUT heated and intense Democrat opposition.


On April 8, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives banning slavery with Republican support was passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, and 63% Democrat opposition to banning slavery!


Then on November 22, 1865, Republicans denounced the Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination which eventually spread to the entire former Confederacy States.

On February 5, 1866, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduced legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to set up “40 acres and a mule” to blacks as former slaves.

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”


On April 9, 1866, Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, authorizing citizenship rights for Americans of African heritage, as US law.

On April 19, 1866. thousands of people assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s ONE PARTY PARTISIANSHIP abolition of slavery.


Then on May 10, 1866, the U.S. House passed Republicans’ 14th Amendment legislation guaranteeing due process of law and equal protection under the law to all citizens still 100% of Democrats vote no way Jose!


On June 8, 1866, U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment legislation guaranteeing due process of law and equal protection under the law to all citizens still 94% of Republicans vote yea and 100% of Democrats vote nea.

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”
**************Unless lying about it constantly. ********

On July 16, 1866, Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” throughout old Confederacy which denyed their rights to vote and others.


On July 28, 1866, Republican Congress authorizes the Buffalo Soldiers in U.S. Army of two regiments entirely of African-American cavalrymen.


Democrat-controlled (Similar to Democrat-controlled State-run news media 2010) City of New Orleans ordered police to storm a racially-integrated Republican meeting of whites and blacks. A marching crowd of black suffrage (vote) supporters on their way to the convention pushed through an angry throng of whites. Angry words were exchanged, shots were fired, and within a few minutes a riot erupted with unrestrained fury. By the time the U.S. Army intervened from a nearby detachment, later that afternoon, at least forty-eight men, most of them black, were dead and more than two hundred had been wounded. See called,"An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866" by James G. Hollandsworth Jr.
On January 8, 1867, over 66% of Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation yielding voting rights to African-Americans in Washington, D.C., a federal territory.


On July 19, 1867, the Republican dominated Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting the right to vote of African-Americans.


On March 30, 1868, Republicans attempted the FIRST impeachment trial of a President of the US (POTUS) for Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who defiantly declared, “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”.


On September 3, 1868, 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, were expelled by the Democrat majority but later reinstated by the U.S. Republican Congress.

Among those listed to speak at the rally was Robert B. Elliott, former congressman from South Carolina.

On September 12, 1868, civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, all Republicans, were expelled by the Democrat or "Dixiecrat" majority but would later be reinstated by the US Republican Congress.

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

On September 28, 1868, Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who attempted to prevent an assault against a Republican teacher and newspaper editor, Emerson Bentley.

On October 7, 1868, Republicans publically denounced Democratic Party’s national campaign theme which was, “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”.

While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists near Indian Bay, Monroe County, Ark., October 22, 1868; interment in East Norwich, N.Y. Assassin(s) were allegedly linked to the Ku Klux Klan. One source names George A. Clark, Secretary of the Democratic Committee of Monroe County, as the lone killer, who was drunk at the time.

On December 10, 1869, Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office, i.e. women's sufferage.


On February 3, 1870, after passing U.S. House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race.

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

May 31, 1870
President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

June 22, 1870
Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South



February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

April 20, 1871
Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands

October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the White Camellia, the White League (first Louisianna), Red Shirts (first Mississippi later North and South Carolina, then African-American Red Shirts esp. at parades).

November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”, not even "on the rocks".
As a consequence of high-handed or arbitrary Radical Republican Congressional Reconstruction after southern state governments had been dissolved and the states named as military districts under a form of martial law. This re-writing of the Arkansas Constitution of 1868 disenfranchised former Confederates and gave all the votes and power to freedmen, opportunistic non-natives called scalawags and "Yankees" called carpetbaggers. Thus from about April 15 to May 15,1874, the Brooks–Baxter War was an armed group of skirmishes or small battles in Little Rock, Arkansas, between militia forces of the Republican Party over the disputed 1872 election for governor. Minstrel forces leader Elisha Baxter disputed
Colfax Massacre or Colfax Riot as posted state markers refer to it was on April 13,1873 when fighting broke out over contested elections for governor and other positions. Armed Democrats with a small cannon overwhelmed black militia and freedmen who surrendered and were killed with about 50 killed later that night with a total of three whites and from 105 to 150 blacks killed including 15-20 found in the Red River depending on the source.
January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”


Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant on March 1, 1875. Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed with 92% Republican support or."YES VOTES" over 100% Democrat opposition or resistance or saying,"NO!"
"The Hamburg Massacre," A.K.A. "Hamberg Riot" in Edgefield County, South Carolina, began allegedly, with a dispute over blocking of free passage on a public road. According to one source, this racially motivated incident lead to a call for South Carolina's black citizenry to protest Gen. Matthew C. Butler, the area's most prominent Democrat, who allegedly led hundreds of armed whites in an attack against the town's black militia in early July, 1876. It was said that five to seven black men were murdered after being captured leading to labels of "Massacre" while an insurrection story version had it labelled,"Riot". As most militias are armed, there is a likelyhood that someone,"shot it out with someone else."
The Hamberg Incident launched the fast and furious 1876 Democratic campaign for South Carolina's “Redemption,” (from Reconstruction) inaugurating single-party white supremacist rule, and leading to nearly one hundred years of "Jim Crow" denial of civil rights.
Long suspected of being the source of a slangish word, nasty, Thomas Nast drew "yellow journalism" cartoons in response to South Carolina's violent 1876 election campaign and other historical happenings. One cartoon depicted blacks as victims desiring "change" but also warns that they might possess firearms in self-defense.

A publication called, "The Boast of the Solid South" featured several quotes from several Southern Democratic newspapers which proclaimed the right to use armed force to enable getting Reconstruction governments out of power.
When the hotly controversial election of 1876 looked like Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would defeat Democrat Samuel Tilden, a Nast(y) cartoon scoffed at Democrats' claim that violence,killings, and possibly a new civil war, would be a sad conclusion if Sam Tilden did not become president. Nevertheless, an Electoral Commission decided that as Hayes had carried, Louisianna, Florida and South Carolina by ONE elecotrial vote...Hayes had won the presidency.
Actually three factors contributed to the controversy. Colorado had just joined the Union and was too broke and disorganized to hold a proper election so their legislature sent three Electorial Votes for Hayes instead. Rampant coersion, vote fraud, and threatening of blacks by Democrats skewed the vote in Louisianna, Florida and South Carolina with Republicans in groups taking blacks to the polls to encourage/influence/protect them. So to end the confusion, there was a back-room deal cut between the Democrats and Republicans that should Hayes win via an eight Republican, seven Democrat Congressional Electorial Commission, that Reconstruction would officially end. It was part of the "Compromise (or Deal) of 1877".
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section5/section5_20.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Massacre
Among those listed to speak at the rally was Robert B. Elliott, former congressman from South Carolina.

On January 10, 1878, Republican U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced for the first time the Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage i.e. right for women to vote. Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong


On February 8, 1894, Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote. Its repeal made it easier to disenfranchise blacks of their voting rights.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1894/february_8_1894_64780.html
The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, AKA the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, took place in Wilmington, North Carolina after the events of Nov. 10, 1898, and a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction. First it was labeled a race riot, then a coup d'etat or overthrow of the state as this incident is the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. As in a South American banana republic or Africa by whom has the power, it was the illegal seizure of power from an elected government by white supremacists, who used, a Gatling gun mounted on a wagon and many small arms.
It began with Wilmington, largest North Carlina city and black-majority owned with a strong, biracial Republican Party.


North Carolina Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell and US President William McKinley, who knew all about the disturbance yet had no response did nothing.

The Wilmington Insurrection was
January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%

February 12, 1909
On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP

May 21, 1919
Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no

August 18, 1920
Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures

January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention


On June 12, 1929, First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking loud, boisterous protests by Democrats across the country.

On August 17, 1937, Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation.

On June 24, 1940, the Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it.

“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws… On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.”

Yea...sure they are...and monkeys fly out my nose monthly!

From: http://www dot democrats dot org/a/national/civil_rights/