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It’s Time to Ban the Democrat Party the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow
Posted 10 hours ago by William Federer Filed under Constitution, History, Law, Liberalism, Race, Racism, Supreme Court

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Calls to ban the Confederate Flag due to its association with slavery may lead to calls to ban the Donkey symbol of the Democrat Party and the Islamic Crescent, as those institutions had also been involved in the enslavement of Africans.

Prior to the Civil War there were two major political parties in the United States:
Democrats, who favored freedom of choice to own slaves; and
Whigs, who tried to be a big tent party to stem the loss of members to the Know-Nothing Party.

On February 28, 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin, anti-slavery activistsmet for the first time, then held their first State Convention in Jackson, Michigan on JULY 6, 1854.

This new political party took a stand against slavery. It also was against an effort in Utah to redefine marriage.

The name of this new political party was "Republican." The chief plank of the original Republican Party platform was "to prohibit...those twin relics of barbarism: POLYGAMY AND SLAVERY." America was divided geographically between:

* Radical Republican Northwhich said slavery is wrong, end it now. This included abolitionist societies, the Underground Railroad, anti-slavery preachers and, unfortunately, the fringe John Brown who took guns and killed slave owners.

* Moderate Republican North, which said slavery is wrong, but the country should transition out of it slowly over time.

* Practical Neutral, which cared less about the value of human life, being more interested in jobs, wages, economy and tax-tariff issues.

* Moderate Democratic South, which said slavery may be wrong, but the country has to live with it. Though personally against slavery, they believed the right to own slaves should be protected, just made rare and few, and treat slaves humanely.

* Extreme Democratic South, which said slavery is good and should be expanded into Western states. They tried to justify it by twisting Scriptures, citing that Abraham owned slaves but ignoring Jesus' teaching to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Extreme Democrats, Speaker Howell Cobb and Senate President William King, pushed through the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which put the slavery issue squarely in the face of the anti-slavery North, whereas before it had become an out-of-sight and out-of-mind issue occurring on Southern plantations.

The Fugitive Slave Law imposed severe penalties on those who aided escaped slaves with food or shelter in their passage to freedom in Michigan or Canada.
It also made it a crime to interfere with the slave catchers' recovery of runaway slaves.

A person could be held criminally liable, fined $1000 and imprisoned for six months if they failed to report a neighbor suspected of helping slaves.

The Fugitive Slave Law mandate intensified sectional animosity, provoking the Civil War by requiring citizens who are against slavery to violate their consciences and take part in it.

It was one thing for Northerners to be apathetic toward pro-choice Democrats enslaving people in the South, but it was quite another thing for them to be forced by a federal mandate to dip their hands in the blood of the crime and participate in enforcing slavery.

Congress made the situation worse in 1854 by passing Democratic Sen. Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which let inhabitants in the territories have the freedom of choice to decide if they wanted to own slaves.

It prescribed "dividing the land into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and leaving the question of slavery to be decided by the settlers." Instead of gradually diminishing, as many founders had hoped, slavery was now expanding.

On March 6, 1857 the Supreme Court, with 7 of the 9 justices being Democrats, rendered the Dred Scott decision.

Dred Scott (1799-1858)

Hoping to settle the slavery issue once and for all, their efforts to avoid a civil war began one.

Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken by his master to Illinois and Wisconsin, but, as he was not allowed to learn to read, he was unaware that those territories forbade slavery.

When he returned to Missouri, Scott sued for freedom with the help of abolitionist friends, such as Henry Blow, a Republican congressman whose wife started the first kindergarten in the United States.


Chief Justice Roger Taney

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Andrew Jackson, rendered the decision that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property that belonged to his owner, writing that slaves were "so far inferior ... that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit."

Leaders rose up in churches, media and politics. Republican President Lincoln said on March 17, 1865, "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Some states defied the federal government's Fugitive Slave Law mandate by passing "personal liberty laws," effectively nullifying it. Communities insisted on jury trials before alleged fugitive slaves could be taken away by federal authorities. Some juries refused to convict those indicted.

Other communities forbade local law enforcement officials from using their jails to hold the accused.

To settle the legality of President Lincoln's Proclamation, the 13th Amendment was passed officially ending slavery.

Every Republican in the House (86) and Senate (30) voted for it, joined by a few Democrats in the Senate (4) and House (15).

With all this history, it’s long past time to ban the Democrat Party and its symbols since it’s still in the business of enslaving people

Ban the democrats? Sure. As long as we ban the Republicans as well.

Both absolutely disgusting.

Talbot

yep, looks like we should call for a ''DO OVER"

just like jimmydanger told you Slacker, the ideologies of the two parties did a 180 degree reversal in the early 1900's..

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/weld/weld.html#p50


TESTIMONY OF MRS. NANCY LOWRY, A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY.

Mrs. Lowry, is a member of the non-conformist church in Osnaburg, Stark County, Ohio., she is a native of Kentucky. We have received from her the following testimony.

"I resided in the family of Reuben Long, the principal part of the time, from seven to twenty-two years of age. Mr. Long had 16 slaves, among whom were three who were treated with severity, although Mr. Long was thought to be a very humane master. These three, namely John, Ned, and James, had wives; John and Ned had theirs at some distance, but James had his with him. All three died a premature death, and it was generally believed by his neighbors, that extreme whipping was the cause. I believe so too. Ned died about the age of 25 and John 34 or 35. The cause of their flogging was commonly staying a little over the time, with their wives. Mr. Long would tie them up by the wrist, so high that their toes would just touch the ground, and then with a cow-hide lay the lash upon the naked back, until he was exhausted, when he would sit down and rest. As soon as he had rested sufficiently, he would ply the cow-hide again, thus he would continue until the whole back of the poor victim was lacerated into one uniform coat of blood. Yet he was a strict professor of the Christian religion, in the southern church. I frequently washed the wounds of John, with salt water, to prevent putrefaction. This was the usual course pursued after a severe flogging; their backs would be full of gashes, so deep that I could almost lay my finger in them. They were generally laid up after the flogging for several days. The last flogging Ned got, he was confined to the bed, which he never left till he was carried to his grave. During John's confinement in his last sickness on one occasion while attending on him, he exclaimed, 'Oh, Nancy, Miss Nancy, I haven't much longer in this world, I feel as if my whole body inside and all my bones were beaten into a jelly.' Soon after he died. John and Ned were both professors of religion.

"John Ruffner, a slaveholder, had one slave named Piney, whom he as well as Mrs. Ruffner would often flog very severely. I frequently saw Mrs. Ruffner flog her with the broom, shovel, or any thing she could seize in her rage. She would knock her down and then kick and stamp her most unmercifully, until she would he apparently so lifeless, that I more than once thought she would never recover. Often Piney would try to shelter herself from the blows of her mistress, by creeping under the bed, from which Mrs. Ruffner would draw her by the feet, and then stamp and leap on her body, till her breath would be gone. Often Piney, would cry, 'Oh Missee, don't kill me!" "Oh Lord, don't kill me!' 'For God's sake don't kill me!' But Mrs. Ruffner would beat and stamp away, with all the venom of a demon. The cause of Piney's flogging was, not working enough, or making some mistake in baking, &c. &c. Many a night Piney had to lie on the bare floor, by the side of the cradle, rocking the baby of her mistress, and if she would fall asleep, and suffer the child to cry, so as to waken Mrs. Ruffner, she would be sure to receive a flogging."

TESTIMONY OF MR. WM. C. GILDERSLEEVE, A NATIVE OF GEORGIA

Mr. W. C. GILDERSLEEVE, a native of Georgia, is an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Wilkesbarre, Pa.

"Acts of cruelty, without number, fell under my observation while I lived in Georgia. I will mention but one. A slave of a Mr. Pinkney, on his way with a wagon to Savannah, 'camped' for the night by the road side. That night, the nearest hen-roost was robbed. On his return, the hen-roost was again visited, and the fowl counted one less in the morning. The oldest son, with some attendants made search, and came upon the poor fellow, in the act of dressing his spoil. He was too nimble for them, and made his retreat good into a dense swamp. When much effort to start him from his hiding place had proved unsuccessful, it was resolved to lay an ambush for him, some distance ahead. The wagon, meantime, was in charge of a lad, who accompanied the teamster as an assistant. The little boy lay still till nearly night, (in the hope probably that the teamster would return,) when he started with his wagon. After travelling some distance, the lost one made his appearance, when the ambush sprang upon him. The poor fellow was conducted back to the plantation. He expected little mercy. He begged for himself, in the most suplicating manner, 'pray massa give me 100 lashes and let me go.' He was then tied by the hands, to a limb of a large mulberry tree, which grew in the yard, so that his

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feet were raised a few inches from the ground, while a sharpened stick was driven underneath, that he might rest his weight on it, or swing by his hands. In this condition 100 lashes were laid on his bare body. I stood by and witnessed the whole, without as I recollect, feeling the least compassion. So hardening is the influence of slavery, that it very much destroys feeling for the slave."

TESTIMONY OF MR. HIRAM WHITE--A NATIVE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Mr. WHITE resided thirty-two years in Chatham county, North Carolina, and is now a member of the Baptist Church, at Otter Creek Prairie, Illinois.

About the 20th December, 1830, a report was raised that the slaves in Chatham county, North Carolina, were going to rise on Christmas day," in consequence of which a considerable commotion ensued among the inhabitants; orders were given by the Governor to the militia captains, to appoint patrolling captains in each district, and orders were given for every man subject to military duty to patrol as their captains should direct. I went two nights in succession, and after that refused to patrol at all. The reason why I refused was this, orders were given to search every negro house for books or prints of any kind, and Bibles and Hymn books were particularly mentioned. And should we find any, our orders were to inflict punishment by whipping the slave until he informed who gave them to him, or how they came by them.

As regards the comforts of the slaves in the vicinity of my residence, I can say they had nothing that would bear that name. It is true, the slaves in general, of a good crop year, were tolerably well fed, but of a bad crop year, they were, as a general thing, cut short of their allowance. Their houses were pole cabins, without loft or floor. Their beds were made of what is there called "broom-straw." The men more commonly sleep on benches. Their clothing would compare well with their lodging. Whipping was common. It was hardly possible for a man with a common pair of ears, if he was out of his house but a short time on Monday mornings, to miss of hearing the sound of the lash, and the cries of the sufferers pleading with their masters to desist. These scenes were more common throughout the time of my residence there, from 1799 to 1831.

Mr. HEDDING of Chatham county, held a slave woman. I traveled past Heddings as often as once in two weeks during the winter of 1828, and always saw her clad in a single cotton dress, sleeves came half way to the elbow, and in order to prevent her running away, a child, supposed to be about seven years of age, was connected with her by a long chain fastened round her neck, and in this situation she was compelled all the day to grub up the roots of shrubs and sapplings to prepare ground for the plough. It is not uncommon for slaves to make up on Sundays what they are not able to perform through the week of their tasks.

At the time of the rumored insurrection above named, Chatham jail was filled with slaves who were said to have been concerned in the plot. Without the least evidence of it, they were punished in divers ways; some were whipped, some had their thumbs screwed in a vice to make them confess, but no proof satisfactory was ever obtained that the negroes had ever thought of an insurrection, nor did any so far as I could learn, acknowledge that an insurrection had ever been projected. From this time forth, the slaves were prohibited from assembling together for the worship of God, and many of those who had previously been authorized to preach the gospel were prohibited.

Amalgamation was common. There was scarce a family of slaves that had females of mature age where there were not some mulatto children.

HIRAM WHITE.

Otter Creek Prairie, Jan. 22, 1839.
TESTIMONY OF MR. JOHN M. NELSON--A NATIVE OF VIRGINI

REMEMBER THIS! SOUTHERNERS in 1830's were the same politically as modern day Republicans
"Not one of the slaves attended church on the Sabbath. The social relations were scarcely recognised among them, and they lived in a state of promiscuous concubinage. The master said he took pains to breed from his best stock--the whiter the progeny the higher they would sell for house servants. When asked by Mr. C. if he did not fear his slaves would run away if he whipped them so much, he replied, they know too well what they must suffer if they are taken--and then said, 'I'll tell you how I treat my runaway niggers. I had a big nigger that ran away the second time; as soon as I got track of him I took three good fellows and went in pursuit, and found him in the night, some miles distant, in a corn-house; we took him and ironed him hand and foot, and carted him home. The next morning we tied him to a tree, and whipped him until there was not a sound place on his back. I then tied his ankles and hoisted him up to a limb--feet up and head down--we then whipped him, until the damned nigger smoked so that I thought he would take fire and burn up. We then took him down; and to make sure that he should not run away the third time, I run my knife in back of the ankles, and cut off the large cords,--and then I ought to have put some lead into the wounds, but I forgot it.'

the brutality of southerners is appalling! even the white trash southerners not of the Bourbon class..

Extract of a letter from Rev. C. S. RENSHAW, pastor of the Congregational Church, Quincy, Illinois.

"Judge Menzies of Boone county, Kentucky, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a slaveholder, told me that he knew some overseers in the tobacco growing region of Virginia, who, to make their slaves careful in picking the tobacco, that is taking the worms off, (you know what a loathsome thing the tobacco worm is) would make them eat some of the worms, and others who made them eat every worm they missed in picking."

"Mrs. NANCY JUDD, a member of the Non-Conformist Church in Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, and formerly a resident of Kentucky, testifies that she knew a slaveholder,

"Mr. Brubecker, who had a number of slaves, among whom was one who would frequently avoid labor by hiding himself; for which he would get severe floggings without the desired effect, and that at last Mr. B. would tie large cats on his naked body and whip them to make them tear his back, in order to break him of his habit of hiding."
this was a torture called "cat-hauling" the slaves hated this worse than the whip cause cat scratches are very prone to infection

Dayne Nobody IV wrote:REMEMBER THIS! SOUTHERNERS in 1830's were the same politically as modern day Republicans
"Not one of the slaves attended church on the Sabbath. The social relations were scarcely recognised among them, and they lived in a state of promiscuous concubinage. The master said he took pains to breed from his best stock--the whiter the progeny the higher they would sell for house servants. When asked by Mr. C. if he did not fear his slaves would run away if he whipped them so much, he replied, they know too well what they must suffer if they are taken--and then said, 'I'll tell you how I treat my runaway niggers. I had a big nigger that ran away the second time; as soon as I got track of him I took three good fellows and went in pursuit, and found him in the night, some miles distant, in a corn-house; we took him and ironed him hand and foot, and carted him home. The next morning we tied him to a tree, and whipped him until there was not a sound place on his back. I then tied his ankles and hoisted him up to a limb--feet up and head down--we then whipped him, until the damned nigger smoked so that I thought he would take fire and burn up. We then took him down; and to make sure that he should not run away the third time, I run my knife in back of the ankles, and cut off the large cords,--and then I ought to have put some lead into the wounds, but I forgot it.'

That is one of the inhumane horrible stories I've heard in my life.



But ALL southerners (and quite a lot of Northerners) were Democrats. Too bad your attempt to deflect responsibility away from the side you're on has failed.

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Dayne Nobody IV wrote:just like jimmydanger told you Slacker, the ideologies of the two parties did a 180 degree reversal in the early 1900's..

The only ideology that has "flipped" is that now the Democrat bosses have adopted racism against white people, and any other racist views that might divide Americans. Too bad they are still the party of the racists.

It's obvious to anyone with eyes and an intellect that they view everything in terms of race; the very definition of racist.



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Yod,

jimmy is too ignorant to understand that Barackulas latest fiat to HUD is the racist effort to mandate citizen neighborhoods ethnicity through allowed housing purchases decided by race and income. Now if jimmy can't comprehend that this a blatantly racist act, based on the demands of a radical racist heading a racist regime, your words are truly wasted. These drones.have been weened on leftist propagandist distortions and blatant lies from daycare to college. That is all they have been taught all their lives. They have only been taught to absorb, to be assimilated, not to be able to reason. They only know what pravda and the Socialist left want them to know. These believe the lies because they love the lies. If you are a liberal you are simply a Pollyanna mindlessly drifting from one radically idealistic propagandized agenda to the next without serious contemplation.

Dayne you talk like a man with a paper asshole.

Southerners are just so terrible. What with our working hard, taking care of our families and waving our flags and all.

I'll not debate with you since you seem to have the ideas of a person who took public school seriously.

Talbot

northern freesoilers never tortured anybody Mike, the southerner(anybody south of the Mason-Dixon line) had more respect and less barbarism for their gamecocks and hounds and horses than they did for negros..you ever here about a slaveholder torturing his horse or swine if they jumped the fence?.. and yeah, I know quite a bit about how the "South" was started.. it all had to do with being rewarded for fighting wars in England bud.. but then you had your white trash too..

Dane,

I have already responded to jimmys Pollyanna opinion. The demoncraps only claim they abandoned racism, but this regime leader is one of the most racist presidents America ever elected, and that for a beginning. You llisten to the diatribes of the left, I look at the results of how they are manipulating society, so it is words against deeds, and in deed the demoncraps remain the party of racism.

They pit brown against white, black against white, American against Illegal, rich against poor, conservative against liberal and on and on and on You can not see the truth for the lies they spew. Read it, this is my answer to your post. This is not a party of peace but the party of division with the end goal being simple. A nation divided against itself can not stand. And that is their game plan. You would have to be blind not to see the fruit of their deeds eating at America like a stage four cancer.

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=28943 Look at the results not the words they spew. Their new tactics get the very same results as their old tactics. Nothing has changed, the demoncrap party of racism, only the methods have changed, the results remain the same.

Northerners never tortured anybody? !

Nah...I'm not going there. I'm a southerner and far too stupid. We're so stupid we'd torture and kill a slave that cost 2000 bucks in pre Nixon money.

Talbot

Mike, firstly, I want to apologize for any offense against current day modern southerners, including you, (although you are from Maryland?) by my perhaps harsh words, ..
the topic of Slacker's thread was about the Democrats being the party of slavery, so when I made remarks, it was directed at the southerners living from 1865 to the 1600's when slavery existed south of the Mason-Dixon line, along with Missouri (Missouri Compromise)... even somebody as gullible as I am, nobody is torturing slaves nowadays.. but, being both you and I were not around then, we have to look to published accountable sources such as abolitionist writings, specifically,
Theodore Dwight Weld's "American Slavery As It Is Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses" published in 1839 for details and accounts of the abuse weathered by slaves.. as I said before, if a swine or horse escapes the plantation and suffers no punishment such as a flogging, or cropping of ears etc. then why did the planter/overseer do inhumane atrocities to a fellow human being?.. and even more hypocritically worse, go preach Sunday school or pray at the supper table that same dayl.. a true hypocrite if he/she was indeed reading their Bible and getting anything out of it, such as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".. I can't figure that part of it out yet.. slavery even worsened the condition of the poor whites because slavery made the unemployment rate so high with all the slave labor and all.. and it caused idleness of the plantation owners offspring, and relatives, and WE ALL KNOW WHAT IDLENESS will do to a society/civilization.. my family is from Iowa via Ohio, via New York, yep, we were Mormon Trail people that broke away from the caravans because of disputes with that teachings... Chariton, Iowa even to this day has a Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints standing and practicing their faith..the Mormon Trail went right by Chariton (two routes) so my family 160+ years was persecuted severely too at one time.. even related to prominent Mormons w/ family names of Young, Page, Allen, and Smith on my dad's side..if you do research all thoise names were higher ups in the Mormon church

As I recall the Mormons were a bit slower than Southerners in getting past the race thing. I have no dog in the racial hunt. I can neither like nor dislike an entire ethnicity. I do think 'they' not me, have harmed blacks with social welfare programs and affirmitive action. Want your liver transplant done by an affirmi? I don't. Neither do black people.

FYI - Maryland was a Southern state when I was growing up. Left as soon as I could - it festered and died from propinquity to that whorehouse on the Potomac.

Read the words of 'Maryland my Maryland' and you'll see what I mean. Used to sing it in school, "The despot's heel is on thy shore..." They weren't talking about Uncle Robert's boys!

Talbot