Good summation. “States-Rights” all along has always been codeword for “slavery”.
Yep, the hard-bit ‘States-rights-ers’, I have spent years in re-enactment cavalry groups, riding and encamped in events in both Federal and rebel groups, and heard this ‘States-rights’ ad nauseum from some lot of folks who were quite evidently attached to familial story.. Re-enacting is interesting because it allows you moments to walk in perspectives of other people’s shoes. Within historical Am Civil War re-enactment some re-enactment groups have both Federal and rebel uniforms and equipment and willingly re-enact on either side depending on what is needed to be portrayed at particular events. Then, some other groups form specifically to portray one side or the other as heritage groups, and will not stoop to portray the other side. Typically those kind of groups are rebel groups, they are the a kind of nutty energy inside. Riding and encamped with them it always sounded and felt like going out on a KKK rally with the rebel cavalry group. Particularly at re-enactments held in any of the former slave holding States. The States-rights zealots go round and round, ‘..it wasn’t about slavery but States-rights’. But they don’t read the historical declarations of even their own portrayed States in the seceding from the Union, over slavery. At re-enactments as an antidote to this all I would print up a stack of handbills that were the distilled language of the US 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and then tape them up on doors opposite the seat inside toilet stalls for all to quietly read. The effect always muted the conflict. Truth triumphs. Runaway Slaves Poster, 1850 Law http://www.icelandichorse.info/runawayslavesposter.html Runaway Slaves Poster, 1850 Law http://www.icelandichorse.info/runawayslavesposter.html Runaway Slaves By Federal Law of the US Congress, 1850 It is Illegal to: Willingly obstruct, hinder, or prevent from arrest fugitives from service or labor. It is Illegal to: View on www.icelandichorse.info http://www.icelandichorse.info/runawayslavesposter.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <t...@chromapure.com> wrote : The Democratic Party was split in 1860 between the Northern and Southern Democrats. The main point of contention was the status of slavery in the western territories. The Southern Democrats wanted to ensure the right to own slaves in the territories, and potential new states. The Northern Democrats wanted to leave the issue of slavery up to the residents of the territory. Thus, saying that the Democratic Party "supported slavery" and "expansion of the slave states" is an accurate description of the Southern Democratic Party only, the party of secession. However, the Northern Democrats did support enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, though even Lincoln's record on this is mixed. The act was not repealed until 1864, and it was sporadically enforced throughout Lincoln's first term. Yes, the Republicans "were" the abolitionist party, with emphasis on the past tense. Starting in 1964, however, the GOP underwent a profound transformation. Barry Goldwater's opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act resulted in the Republicans winning Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, the first time the GOP had won the deep South in a Presidential election since Reconstruction. In 1968 the same states mostly voted for George Wallace, at the time an unrepentant segregationist. Since then, the deep South has been solidly Republican, with the exception of 1976 and 1992 when 2 Democratic Southern governors (Carter and Clinton) were able to attract significant southern support. The Republican Party may have began as the party of Lincoln. However, for the last 50 years it has been the party of Jefferson Davis. Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Friday, July 22, 2016 7:58 PM Dinesh D'Souza goes much deeper into this in his new film,"Hillary's America". The Republicans were the abolitionist party and the Democrats were the party of the status quo, who supported slavery and the return of runaway slaves to their owners and the expansion of slave states.. 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