Forum Post: Republican History
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 12:24 p.m. EST by 99Kentucky
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I watched a KET public broadcast last night regarding the War of 1812, then Republican President Madison left Washington and left his Wife Dolly Madison alone in the White House (what a brave man). As the British landed in Maryland and approached Washington, Dolly left just hours before the British overtook Washington and Burned it to the ground, including the White House as retaliation for the burning of one of their cities in Canada. the next day, when the coast was clear, the brave Republican President returned to the ruined White House; all the while a group of Republicans gathered in Hartford to determine just how to surrender the United States and what they were willing to give to the British (Capitulate is the Republican favorite word). Until Jackson defeated the British at the battle of New Orleans (Orleans) these war loving Republicans were either cowering somewhere where the battle wasn't raging or were negotiating their capitulation of the United States. all throughout history, whether that be Washington or any other Republican (Washington had slaves and then upon his death ordered them free, but it was just fine that he kept the slaves while he was alive) are Double Talkers! Do as I Say, Not as I Do! Read American History where the truth is told and peel back the layers of the Republican Onion; and find the truth about the core that is the history of the Double Talking Republicans.
Madison was a member of the party called the United States Democratic-Republican Party. He was not a Republican. Even historical Republicans, such as Lincoln, are not really representative of the Republican Party as we know it today. Instead, the current Republican Party can be more closely aligned with the Dixiecrats who fled the Democratic party over civil rights.
You don't need to twist history to be against the current Republicans. Plus, it makes you look bad,
"I watched a KET public broadcast last night regarding the War of 1812, then Republican President Madison ... "
"The Republican Party emerged in 1854. It began as coalition of anti-slavery "Conscience Whigs" and Free Soil Democrats opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, submitted to Congress by Stephen Douglas in January 1854." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party
HMMmmmm.
There appears to be a disconnect between PBS and/or 99Kentucky and/or reality
Please stop it with this Republican vs. Democrat bullshit. You're totally missing the point of OWS.
Not to mention that there was no "Republican" party in 1812 and that various parties under various names have swung so completely back and forth through the years that they're not even the same as those that we assoicate with various issues today. Lincoln was a "Republican" you know...
"Founded in Northern States in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.[4] The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan. By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states. The Republican Party first came to power in 1860 with the election of Lincoln to the Presidency and Republicans in control of Congress and the northern states. It oversaw the saving of the union, the destruction of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877.[5] The Republicans' initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. With the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 Presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states. Early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan "free labor, free land, free men."[6] "Free labor" referred to the Republican opposition to slave labor and belief in independent artisans and businessmen. "Free land" referred to Republican opposition to plantation system whereby the rich could buy up all the good farm land and work it with slaves, leaving the yeoman independent farmers the leftovers. The Party had the goal of containing the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the Slave Power and the expansion of freedom.[7] Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of saving the Union and destroying slavery during the American Civil War and over Reconstruction. In the election of 1864, it united with pro-war Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket."
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Typical made up Liberal Bull Shit!
This is a radical left wing movement driven by Marxist teachers, foreign philosophers, foreign government agents, union leaders, and community organizers. Obama knows he is going to lose so he has the street thugs out to incite violence to declare Marshall law.
No, That's Your Tea Bagging Party. Reap what you Sow!
And you are a fucking liar!
200 years ago the republican party was nothing like the one we have today. Its not worth arguing over it. Tea Party and OccupyW.S. have many things in common: demand for public accountability of officials (including the president) and adherence to the constitution for example.
They also defeated the Democrats filibuster (led by former Klansman Robert Byrd) and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And there was that whole ending slavery thing.
The civil rights act was obstructed by the dixiecrats (Southern Democrats who voted and thought like republicans.) The Civil Rights act was pushed through by Lyndon Johnson's efforts (this is well documented). He got one of the senators to change his vote by having the senator's BLACK mistress call and speak to him while he was on the senate floor.
The dixiecrats were still influential until after 1972. That year at the state democratic convention, all McGovern at-large delegates from my senate district were unseated and replaced by Wallace delegates.
Most of those dixiecrats became "Reagan Democrats" and changed parties in 1980. It hurt us in some ways, but we were glad to be rid of them.
Simply watch the Public Television, Scholars, History Experts documentary. Maybe one could change the perception, Spin the Historical Record; But, one cannot change Actual History.
Simply watch the Public Television, Scholars, History Experts documentary. Maybe one could change the perception, Spin the Historical Record; But, one cannot change Actual History.
so Lincoln didn't free the slaves? i'm confused. my high school history teacher must have really sucked
Yes your history teacher really sucked. Lincoln didn't free the slaves. President's have no official role in the passing of amendments to the Constitution.
Seriously how bad was your high school history teacher?
I blame the teacher's unions.
Fair enough most high school teachers don't have to have a degree in the subject matter they teach.
Dolly Madison wouldn't leave until they saved Washington's portrait.
That is an interesting fact but you might want to know the party itself didn't exist during this war and not for decades after. The first Republican President was Linclon.
I don't know who is telling you things but I would never ever listen to them again.
Simply watch the Public Television, Scholars, History Experts documentary. Maybe one could change the perception, Spin the Historical Record; But, one cannot change Actual History.
Actual history is that President Madison was not a Republican.
Oh, you're a troll I get it.