In before the Confederacy Amen Corner.
Great article !
In other words,the Rats suck.
Great read.
Dave Barton is an old friend. Wall Buuilders is perhaps the best repository of original preserved (non+revisionist) American History in the world, including pre US and pertaining European docs.
They also have a large volume of original Confederate documents, including detailed information of Black and Native American owned slaves, and other details.
Lots of good stuff.
Yes. History in it's entirety is important. Some fought for the right to secede. They believed in federalism.
No. I'm not a southerner, I just like history.
Chief Justice Roger Tawney, a Democrat, infamously stated that "the black man had no rights a white man was bound to respect". He was joined by six other justices, all Democrats and/or appointed by Democrat presidents.
The two dissenters were Whigs. One of them resigned his position on the court in protest of the decision.
Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats went on to found the Republican party.
The three authors of the Federalist Papers (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay) that explained the Constitution to the American people also voted for their states' ratifications of the Constitution that included statements saying states could withdraw from the Union and resume their own governance. Those ratifications were accepted by the other states.
Hamilton and Jay were Federalists - the "strong central government" philosophical ancestor of Lincoln's Republican Party. Madison was originally a Federalist and changed allegiance to the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson. That party is the ancestor of today's Democrat Party.
The Federalists fell out of favor with the public for a couple of reasons. Despite the First Amendment, they prosecuted newspaper editors and writers for criticizing the President, and they pushed for the secession of the Northeastern states.
Secession was not prohibited by the Constitution. Seven of the thirteen original states had either said they could resume their own governance or proposed a Tenth Amendment like statement that reserved powers not prohibited by the Constitution to the states respectively or to the people. Madison proposed what became the Tenth Amendment to Congress. It was ratified by the states and became part of our Bill of Rights.
You might be interested to know that the Tenth Amendment was cited by South Carolina in their December 20, 1860 Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union (my red bold below):
By this Constitution, certain duties were imposed upon the several States, and the exercise of certain of their powers was restrained, which necessarily implied their continued existence as sovereign States. But to remove all doubt, an amendment was added, which declared that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people. ... This limitation left the whole remaining mass of power subject to the clause reserving it to the States or to the people, and rendered unnecessary any specification of reserved rights.
In the Tenth Amendment, respectively means individually. Where in the Constitution was the power given to the central government or to states that opposed the secession of other states the power to stop a state from seceding?
I abhor today's Democrats. They are basically corrupt.
Every man that starve union soldiers and refused them in the extremity of death a crust was Democrat.
Perhaps you are not familiar with the treatment of Confederate soldiers in Northern prisons. The North with all its supplies had prisons whose death rates closely approached that of Andersonville. For starters, I suggest you read the book, Immortal Captives, The Story of Six Hundred Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy, by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn, copyright 1996.
Why the Republican party allowed someone like him to be their public face (and even to nominate James G. Blaine for President at one of the conventions) I don't know.
Fascinating. Even after all of these years, the demonrats have remained very close to their roots.