[wardaddy]

Ugh.....

That hurt.....Thad is not beloved down here. Fact is....I can think of very few historical figures less loved in my "region".

Mortin Sult is a perpetually banned FReeper from over the years who worships the Radical Reconstructionists as do you sadly.

He has been I think The Cruiser, Who is George Salt, and LLan_DDeussant as well in addition to the two other monikers. I can't believe you don't recall him.

OK...enuff chit chat...what about my ????.....who is a nationally recognized Republican Neo-Confederate corrupting the Party right now?

[Grand Old Partisan]

Sorry about my first preply. Like I said, I'm NOT going to get into finger-pointing at Republican leaders.

As for my hero, Thaddeus Stevens, he was the (slightly fictionalized) villian of "Birth of the Nation" , that wildly over-the-top pro-KKK movie -- which to me is a great compliment. All this Democrat basshing of Stevens ignores the fact that Republican Reconstruction, Radical or otherwise, did not even begin in the South until the March 1867 passage of the Reconstruction Act. That law was more than anything a reaction against how brutally the ex-rebel Democrats of the South were treating the blacks and white Unionists in the two years before Reconstruction began.

[Grand Old Partisan]

I should also add that Thaddeus Stevens was against capital punishment, so all this neo-Confederate nonsense about him wanting to hang the defeated rebels is...nonsense. Stevens even offered to defend Jefferson Davis against any death sentence. It was Andrew Johnson, be it remembered, who had been demanding the gallows for "Jefferson Davis and his pirate crew" (his words).