Monday, August 16, 2010

Scalawags: Southern Republicans Who Supported the Union

I often like to refer to myself as a scalawag. Pejorative as it sounds, a scalawag is a southerner who formed an alliance with the freedmen and the carpetbaggers during the reconstruction period after the Civil War. A scalawag was seen as a traitor to the confederacy I suppose. They helped build the churches, newspapers and schools for the freedmen. A scalawag was a southern republican. Democrats, the KKK, threatened the scalawags and the carpetbaggers with the same punishment they had threatened the freedmen with. This is all repetitive if you read my last post.
My point is always this. Those who wish to exploit, or alienate the rights of someone, must circumvent the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights. The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the ten articles from the Bill of Rights. The Bill Of Rights is what constitutes a Republic. The abolitionists, carpetbaggers, scalawags and all other republicans are called republicans because they...we...support the Bill of Rights. The Radical Republicans passed the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments in Congress. The Democrats opposed the thirteenth amendment by more than seventy five percent. They opposed the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments by one hundred percent.
 Forget the notion that Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery. He had been dead for about eight months before the amendments began to pass. He did not have the authority as president to do so, otherwise he would have been a dictator, not a president. It takes a Congress to pass law, not a president. Presidents must execute the law, not decide what law is. Lincoln emancipated four hundred thousand slaves under the confiscation act as his authority as president did allow during a time of war. Oh, don't forget, Lincoln was a hillbilly from Kentucky, a southern state. Lincoln was a scalawag too.
 But in order to circumvent the republic, and exploit the helpless minority, one must rely on a form of government known as democracy, a show of hands, all in favor say aye! When something can be decided simply by a show of hands, then the law, right and wrong, can be ignored. That's why they are called "democrat". Yes, democrat is pejorative too. Democrats reject the rule of law because it stands in the way of their agenda. A bigot who wants to deny rights to those he feels superior to cannot tolerate the Constitution. Bigots cannot tolerate republicans.
A scalawag governor from North Carolina was impeached by the democrats because he had fought the Klan. His name was William Woods Holden. I'll tell his story next post.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Carpetbaggers targeted by the Klan.

A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch...Image via Wikipedia
After the Civil War, many Union Army veterans, officers, and northerners in general decided to build churches, newspapers and schools in the southern states to help the freedmen assimilate to society. These veterans and others were primarily Republicans. There were Democrats on the Union side from the North, but their reason for supporting the Union was their opposition to secession, not support for abolition.
The republicans that came to the south were resented by the ex confederates. They referred to the migrants as "carpetbaggers" because they generally carried what they had in luggage made from materials that resembled carpet. Southerners accused them of being opportunists who were only interested in personal gain at the expense of an already impoverished white population. The Ku Klux Klan threatened the carpetbaggers with lynching as well as the freedmen.
Some of the schools, churches and newspapers that were built by the carpetbaggers and freedmen with the help of scalawags were burned down by Klansmen and other white supremacy terrorist groups such as the "Knights of the White Camelia" and the "Red Shirts".
 One incident was the Insurrection at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. About five hundred white supremacist democrats led by Alfred Wadell forced hundreds of black citizens to flee, destroyed the newspaper press, the Daily Record, and forced Republican members of the cities government to resign.
 Recently, a democrat politician said that if "Republicans were elected, black schools and churches would burn". That wasn't just a warning, it was a threat!
 Things are no different today than they were between republicans and democrats.
 



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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War


Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War from the History Channel hints around at my point of this blog. That point is that bigotry, whether it's racial, sexist, academic, elitist or any other form, is incompatible with republicanism and the Republican Party. Let the Democrats say what they will, there is no way a bigot can exploit anyone, minority or majority, when the rules of the "republic for which it stands" are kept sacred. Democrats have a knack for calling Republicans everything they are themselves. It's not to say that all Democrats are bigots, but all bigots are Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party whose sole mission was to make sure they were not outvoted by the black republicans in the southern states. They certainly were outnumbered by the registration of black voters before the election of 1866 in all the southern states, not even a full year after the Republicans passed the thirteenth amendment in Congress. The Northern democrats couldn't even support the amendment with twenty five percent. The southern democrats were not there. All but one had left the Union to join the Confederate States. Even our first Republican President Abraham Lincoln was murdered by a Democrat. John Wilkes Boothe was an actor from a family of actors who were all Democrats except for one brother who disowned him for killing Lincoln. Things are so much the same today. Actors tend to be elitists I suppose. Most who hated Pres.George W. Bush behaved the same way they did during the Reconstruction Period.

More on the Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Copperheads and Freedmen later.
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

What Can I Do? After the Tea Party

Protests and rallies are not enough. A book is offered which guides those who fear an erosion of freedom. After the Tea Party, the question remains, "What Can I Do?" Take steps now to make Congress listen to You! Answer the question, "What Can I Do?"
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Johnny Cash tells a story about the American Flag

Republic vs Democracy