Posted on 11/09/2009 4:57:54 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
Inscription on gravestone:
Went to school with Lincoln's, Brother to Arron Grigsby who married Abe Lincoln's oldest sister. Visited in White House.
Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic party I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so called party therefore beware of this party of treason. Put on in fullfillment of promise to Deceased.
If someone has the html skill, please post the great photos showing this marker (see link).
This should be a huge headline somewhere. BUMP
Thank you, sir!
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“[The] party of treason”.
Yep. Hit the nail on the head.
I’m firing this off to TEN people on my email crowd.
RIGHT THIS FLIPPIN’ MINUTE
Thank you!
OK, OK, I'll do it...
Who was the veteran who said: “I shot too many Democrats in the war to ever consider voting for one?”
It should be pointed out why this soldier expressed what so many others have thought.
To start with, the man whose face is on our $20 bill, Andrew Jackson, and who shaped the subsequent Democrat party, should be remembered as a ruthless villain who more than anything else, was a servant to hatred and revenge. While he indeed fought at the battle of New Orleans, he did so “side by side” with Indians he later “ethnically cleansed”, deporting them West across the Mississippi with much suffering and loss of life.
A passionate defender of slavery, a lower class slave holder, at one time owning as many as 300 slaves, that he worked very hard growing cotton, earning him considerable wealth; not the much easier life of domestic slaves, which was more typical among the slave owning upper classes.
Among his other hatreds, such as for the British, who he blamed for the death of his family, he also held great hatred of the upper classes, and preached populism to the working poor, that they should rise up against the wealthy and successful “corrupt aristocrats of the East.”
Eventually his ability to stir base passions in crowds earned him the nickname “King (of the) Mob”.
He deeply distrusted the idea of a federal bank, and so firmly believed in specie (gold and silver), that just on leaving office, with the stroke of the pen, he refused to renew the charter of the major national bank, and signed a “specie circular”, that all small banks had to back the currencies they issued with specie.
This wiped out the federal bank and hundreds of smaller banks, and thrust the US into the worst depression in its history until the Great Depression. The “Panic of 1837”.
So the “great populist” wiped out the savings of hundreds of thousands of Americans, without taking any of the blame for having done so.
Yes, a fitting founder of a party dedicated to racism and slavery, the punishment of the working classes for the benefit of the non-working classes, the destruction of the economy and prosperity, and bitter hatred of those who disagree with them.
It should be pointed out why this soldier expressed what so many others have thought.
To start with, the man whose face is on our $20 bill, Andrew Jackson, and who shaped the subsequent Democrat party, should be remembered as a ruthless villain who more than anything else, was a servant to hatred and revenge. While he indeed fought at the battle of New Orleans, he did so “side by side” with Indians he later “ethnically cleansed”, deporting them West across the Mississippi with much suffering and loss of life.
A passionate defender of slavery, a lower class slave holder, at one time owning as many as 300 slaves, that he worked very hard growing cotton, earning him considerable wealth; not the much easier life of domestic slaves, which was more typical among the slave owning upper classes.
Among his other hatreds, such as for the British, who he blamed for the death of his family, he also held great hatred of the upper classes, and preached populism to the working poor, that they should rise up against the wealthy and successful “corrupt aristocrats of the East.”
Eventually his ability to stir base passions in crowds earned him the nickname “King (of the) Mob”.
He deeply distrusted the idea of a federal bank, and so firmly believed in specie (gold and silver), that just on leaving office, with the stroke of the pen, he refused to renew the charter of the major national bank, and signed a “specie circular”, that all small banks had to back the currencies they issued with specie.
This wiped out the federal bank and hundreds of smaller banks, and thrust the US into the worst depression in its history until the Great Depression. The “Panic of 1837”.
So the “great populist” wiped out the savings of hundreds of thousands of Americans, without taking any of the blame for having done so.
Yes, a fitting founder of a party dedicated to racism and slavery, the punishment of the working classes for the benefit of the non-working classes, the destruction of the economy and prosperity, and bitter hatred of those who disagree with them.
That is so photoshopped.
I can't say if it is or not. I can say I didn't photoshop it. All I did was link to the source website's photos.
That inscription looks genuine. Some of the letters are faded, which you’d expect with an old tombstone. What’s your point?
He is right. The Democrats are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, abortion, taxing and spending to the point of national bankruptcy,and yes, treason. They usually put the interests of party above life, country, God, family, and their own souls. The only principle they uphold is the fact that they will stab anyone at anytime in the back if it will further their temporary political aims. Nevertheless, it is my duty as an American to uphold their right to do just as they please as long as they operate within the law.
The original website is called “find a grave” — maybe you’d like to visit Attica, Kansas to let us know whether or not this is for real.
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Attica is located in the wastelands of KS. Even if I still lived there (Rock Chalk Jayhawk) I would never visit Attica!
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