I did write the OP, but I didn’t the questions. They were forwarded to me by someone.
So, you mean to say that you copy/pasted the OP.
Yes, from a e-mail sent to me.
Just a hint, Homer, but you might want to clean up the grammar and spelling next time before you copy and paste someone else’s diatribe.
Homer -
Is there any chance you could contact whoever sent you the e-mail and ask him what the hell he was talking about? I find it vaguely unsettling that I was able to find meaning in the OP.
Regards,
Shodan
I sent the person an e-mail.
Let’s see if I have this right. You received a poorly worded email from some wacko, which contains questions which you do not know the answers to, and in some cases comprehend. You proceeded to post it here in its original form.
May I ask why?
To understand above post, remove grammar errors.
Let’s go to leading question number three, who freed the slaves.
More important than the Emancipation Proclamation was the Civil War amendments to the Constitution, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. The 14th has been the subject of controversy but includes stuff above and beyond the federal guarantee of due process of law and the equal protection of the law, and the 15th guarantees voting rights.
All three were passed by Congress in the final year of the Civil War, submitted to the States while Grant was still besieging Petersburg, Virginia, and while Sherman was just starting his march north through the Carolinas. The 13th Amendment was certified as ratified by the States in December 1865, the 14th in July, 1868, and the 15th not until March, 1870. During this period the Republican Party, really the Union Party of Republicans and pro-war Democrats, dominated both houses of Congress. The state legislatures in the former Confederate States were dominated by reconstruction governments which in not a few cases were rump legislatures dominated by the military occupation. None the less, the abolition of slavery was clearly a good and proper thing and was done for the most part by Republicans with the active support of Northern Democrats.
The tragedy is that the good start was abandon by the Republican Party just about as quickly as it was adopted. The plans for the Freedman’s Bureau were left un-funded by a Republican dominated federal legislature. The workable scheme to break southern plantations into small farm to be homesteaded by freed slaves was junked almost before it came into existence. Nothing was done to protect the voting rights of Blacks in the South or elsewhere. Reconstruction was abandon and the South abandon to the policies of Jim Crow just as soon as the Republican Party could cut a deal with former Rebels to keep Republicans in power in Washington in exchange for keeping Blacks in what amounted to peonage, as opposed to outright slavery, in the South.
It was not until the Twentieth Century that the cause of the Black man and civil rights, the promise of the Civil War amendments to the Constitution, was taken up by the northern ad mid-western Democrats that anything substantive was done with the empty promise that was then some 80 years old. It was not the Party of Lincoln that gave meaning to the Civil War amendments. It was the Party of Truman, Kennedy and Johnson.
It is worth noting that many of the Democratic politicians who fervently opposed the resurrection of the Civil War Amendments (dead, lo these 80 years) a fair number of those politicians promptly decided that they really were Republicans. Strom Thurman is a worth while example.
Uncle Strom became a Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves? Please.