I have read the history. The original Juneteenth was the day Union troops went into Texas to inform the former slaves that they had been freed. For the Democrats to hold this as a sacred holiday is ludicrous.
June 21, 1865, The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, reporting the Juneteenth Order:
Headquarters, District of Texas
Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865
General Orders, No. 3.
The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor. — The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.
By order of Major General Granger
(Signed,) F. W. Emery, Maj. & A.A.G.