150 Years Ago Today Republicans Freed the Slaves

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Conservatives have a long history of racial animus, be they republican or democrat. Conservatives.

And when that is pointed out, as sure as shit in a cow pasture, along comes the "Republican's Freed the Slaves" chant or the Civil Rights Act of 64 vote countdown list and with the flip of a switch, it's a republican/democrat ballyhoo over which party did what, ever so careful to intermingle yet not detangle the differences between these four separate entities:

Republican
Conservative
Democrat
Liberal

You see how that happens? It's a scene we see played out here over and over again with the high flag holder at the moment being the one who picks one of those four labels - and only one, for that moment and champions their dedication to the Equality of All Men.

Then it's back to the flinging poo contest wherein democrats have to admit their party has a historically bad record regarding Civil Rights, and the conservatives have to deny they have a historically bad record regarding Civil Rights, while boastfully reengaging the clutch so that it moves the republican
putt putt putt engine of the Little Train that Could.

Woospiedoopiddlydoo.

 

[Big Black Dog]

The biggest mistake this country ever made was to bring in the slaves.
The second biggest mistake this country ever made was not taking them back where they came from after they were freed.
We've been paying for it ever since.

 

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by Jim Hoft
January 1, 2013


Another Great moment in Republican Party History. On this day in 1863 Republicans freed the slaves.

Republicans rejoiced. Democrats cursed. Grand Old Partisan reported:


On New Year’s Day in 1863, the Republican Party’s Emancipation Proclamation came into effect. While Republicans rejoiced, Democrat politicians and newspapers denounced President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) for freeing slaves. Demonstrating their depravity, New York’s Gov. Horatio Seymour, who would be the 1868 Democrat presidential nominee, denounced the Emancipation Proclamation.


Read more:
150 Years Ago Today… Republicans Freed the Slaves | The Gateway Pundit

Today Maobama, the Senate and Congress enslaved all Americans.

Not one slave was freed. It was a slick political tactic that did nothing but inflame the violence in the border states while the Civil War was raging.

 

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Not one slave was freed. It was a slick political tactic that did nothing but inflame the violence in the border states while the Civil War was raging.

Wrong. "From 20,000 to 50,000 former slaves in regions where rebellion had already been subdued were immediately emancipated, and over 3 million more were emancipated as the Union army advanced." LINK

But the most profound effect was that it promised freedom to the slaves in rebel states, hope for those in the border states. The war was now about slavery, as far as the Union was concerned, where as prior the war was fought primarily to keep the Union together. That document said that the Union government now intended to DO something about our national sin.

This is a snip from a history professor at Yale, in a lecture:

There were at least four immediate and visible effects of the Proclamation, once it went into effect on January1. Every forward step of the Union armies now would be, whether some of those officers liked it or not, a liberating step.

Secondly, news of this Proclamation, whatever the details and the fine print, would spread like wildfire across the South, and it would bring about — there's no question — it will bring about increased activity, increased flight, increased movement toward Union lines by freed people, where they can do it. And there's all over the record we have testimony of Confederate soldiers themselves, of Southerners, white Southerners themselves saying they first heard about the Emancipation Proclamation from their slaves.

Third, it committed the United States Government in the eyes of the world — and that's terribly important when we remember that Great Britain was on the verge of recognition of the Confederacy — ...of how that foreign relationship and the problem of Civil War diplomacy is being managed by the two governments, Union and Confederate.

And fourth, on the second page of the Emancipation Proclamation — or is it the third — in another very legalistic paragraph Lincoln formally authorizes once and for all, although it's already begun to happen, the recruitment of black men into the Union Armies and Navy, and it authorizes a formal process now to recruit black men to the Union uniform. And before the war will end about ten percent of all Union forces will be African-American — approximately 180,000 — eighty percent of whom were former slaves, from the slave states.

Open Yale Courses | The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 | Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

 

[Pheonixops]

The biggest mistake this country ever made was to bring in the slaves.
The second biggest mistake this country ever made was not taking them back where they came from after they were freed.
We've been paying for it ever since.

LOL, boo hoo! That's what happens when one tries to get something for nothing. What happened to the slaves and their descendants in this country was horrible for hundreds of years. It was a horrible sin that any "civilized" and modern Judeo-Christian (etc.) would feel empathy for.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

We need to do it again.

.....Except, The Old South.....

....can't GET IT UP, anymore.

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[Mr. Shaman]

We need to do it again.

Democrats quickly managed to get those freed slaves descendants back into slavery.

There are alot more people than them in chains.

Ah, yes.......

.....those Republican-parties.....

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[BlindBoo]

There are people still living today that suffered from democrat party backed segregation and discrimination even killings

Segregation and discrimination was not a Democrat or Republican issue. It was a North South issue still. Look at the votes that passed the Civil Rights bill. It was a combination of Northern Democrats and Northern Republicans that passed it. Most all of the southern Democrats and Republcian voted against it (although a few southern Democrats did vote in favor).

Bull...There weren’t many Republicans from the south then, any who did vote for such things probably did it out of fear for their safety

It's not bull, it's history.

The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

Passed by a combination of Northern Democrats and Northern Republicans.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia