Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren were acknowledged to be the founders of the Democrat Party as we know it today. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren were both slave-owning plantation owners and continued to own slaves while they served as president.
President Andrew Jackson authorized the “Trail of Tears” during which the Cherokee were forcibly moved from Georgia to Oklahoma. Was this genocide?
The Republican Party was founded in 1852, and President Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president. The Republican Party was also known as the Abolitionist Party. The 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union were all Democrat states with Democratic governors and Democratic legislatures. In effect, the Democrats fought a war in an effort to perpetuate and expand slavery.
After the War Between the States, the Republicans passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, the 14th Amendment granting citizenship to all non-whites and the 15th Amendment allowing all non-whites to vote. President Lincoln selected Democrat Andrew Johnson as his vice president for his second term.
As a result, when President Lincoln was assassinated, the Democrats took over the presidency. But, let’s revise history and blame the Republicans.
Glenn Cherry
Kansas City
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Leave it to Whispering...To smear a great president only because he was Republican....nice!...
Posted by: LL | April 09, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Abe Lincoln was an atheist and he was gay.
But, let’s revise history and blame the Democrats.
Posted by: whispering_to_kc | April 09, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Oh my goodness. Glenn (Beck) Cherry is caught in a time warp.
Hey Glenn, the colonies fought a war of indepence from the British. How dare we revise history and call ourselves American.
Nice to know that conservatives have been reduced to this pathetic attempt. March on Glenn. I do remember all the conservatives at the civil rights marches in the 60's. They were the ones with the hoses, batons and attack dogs.
Here is another lost individual confusing a party name with party ideology and mistaking conservatives for liberals. Where does the GOO keep finding these yokals?
Posted by: Uncommon sense | April 09, 2012 at 09:34 AM