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The Ugly history of the Democrat Party: Part Eleven
Coach is Right ^ | Kevin "Coach" Collins

Posted on 10/12/2014 9:03:41 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

This installment continues by exposing how Democrats did everything they could to undermine the Union Army and humiliate Lincoln and the Republicans so they could keep Blacks as their slaves.

On March 3, 1865 a Republican Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves. [7]

On April 8, 1865 the 13th Amendment, banning slavery, passed the Senate with 100% Republican support, but 63% Democrat opposition. [8]

In February 1866, Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania introduced legislation to give “40 acres and a mule” to male former slaves. Democrat President Andrew Johnson vetoed the measure. [9]

Overriding Democrat Andrew Johnson’s veto, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which affirmed the citizenship of African Americans.

When the Republican Congress passed the 14th Amendment giving African Americans rights to due process and “equal protection” under law, it did so with not a single Democratic Representative’s vote. [10]

On November 22, 1865 Republicans denounced the Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination.

In July 1866 the Republican controlled Congress had to override Democrat Andrew Johnson’s veto of the Freedman’s Bureau Act which was created to protect African Americans from the “Black Codes” which were laws devised by the Democrat controlled Southern States to suppress the civil rights of freed men. [12]

At the end of July 1866 the Democrat City Council of New Orleans ordered its police force to barge into a racially mixed Republican meeting with orders to...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 14thamendment; doj; freedslaves; slavery

1 posted on 10/12/2014 9:03:41 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax

Items one will never see in school books or in the MSM.


2 posted on 10/12/2014 10:01:04 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Republican Thaddeus Stevens wanted to give 40 acres and a mule to male freedmen.

What a sexist. The Republican "war and women" dates back to 1866.

3 posted on 10/12/2014 11:47:26 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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