Pg. 48 States manipulates the law & election results:
Georgia
-41 blacks elected to the State legislature were Republicans
***Democrats not want this so they ruled that while blacks might have the right to be elected, they did not have the right to serve in office so Democrats expelled 31 elected blacks from the Georgia legislature
Louisiana:
-black Americans had made huge gains by electing 127 black legislators
-the State has a black lieutenant governor, P.B.S. Pinchback who later served as State governor
-progress halted in 1866, where the city police and Governor attacked the Republican Convention in the city, killing 40 blacks, 20 whites, and wounding 150 others
1875:
-Democrats rushed the floor of the Louisiana Legislature to seize power by force away from elected black Republicans
-federal troops had to restore peace and return African Americans to their lawfully elected positions
****Democrats have a history of violent attacks against Republicans
Pg. 49 1866: The Klu Klux Klan
-Democrats formed a group that became national
-declared purpose was to break down the Republican government and pave a way for Democrats to regain control in the elections
***the name of this group: The Klu Klux Klan
-historical documents unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats
-the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party
-a thirteen-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutable proof the KKK was established by the Democratic Party
1871:
-the evidence was presented before Congress was leading South Carolina Democrat E. W. Seibels who testified that “they, the Klu Klux Klan, belong to the reform party–that is, to our party, the Democratic Party.”
-the Klan terrorized black Americans through murders and public floggings
-they only gave relief to those who promised not to vote for Republican tickets
-violation of the oath to vote Democrat was punishable by death
-Klan target Republicans in general and not limited to just black Republicans but white Republicans as well
Pg. 51: Joseph Hayne Rainey
-a black U.S. Congressman from South Carolina, reported an incident concerning an elderly man named Dr. John Winsmith, a white Republican State Senator
-Winsmith had joined the Republican party in 1870
-for this alliance the Klan went to his home and murdered him
-the Klan shot this white State Senator because he was Republican who was fighting for the rights of blacks in his State
-Dr. Winsmith was hit 7 times in a hail of bullets, he survived the shooting
-Winsmith lived to testify before Congress about the attack by the Klan
Pg. 52 1868:
-the Klan in South Carolina issued a push-card about the size of a baseball card
-It pictured 63 “Radicals” who were all republicans
-the Democrats called Republicans radicals because the were bi-racial and allowed blacks to vote and to participate in the political process
-this made the Republicans “radical” in the eyes of Democrats
-Of the 63 “radicals” (Republicans), in South Carolina legislature, 50 were black and 13 white
-on the back of the card, all the names of the Republicans were listed
-this helped the Klan to identify who they wanted to pay a visit to in night visits
13th Amendment:
-progress had been made as Congress passed civil rights laws
-Democrats in the South still found ways to ignore these laws
-Democrats were forced to acknowledge that slaves had become free, but they denied former slaves the rights of citizenship in those States
-Democrats withheld then the rights according to all other citizens in their State
14th Amendment:
-a civil rights amendment to the Constitution declaring former slaves were full citizens of the State in which they lived and were therefore entitled to ALL the rights and privileges of any other citizen in that State
-when the 14th amendment came to a vote:
94% Republicans voted yes
0 (zero) Democrats voted yes
-Republicans in Congress voted for the passage of that civil rights Amendment
-not one Democrat in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th Amendment
***three years after the Civil War, Democrats from the North and South refused to recognize ANY rights of citizenship for black American
Pg. 53 1868 Democratic National Convention
-in York City on July 4th
-Democratic delegates at the convention
Rebel Generals-25
Rebel Colonels-30
Rebel Majors-1-
Rebel Captains & other minor Rebel Officers-20
Rebel Governors-5
Rebel Congressmen-15
Rebel Members-105
-nearly one-fifth of the members of the Democratic National Convention were leaders who had either militarily fought for or politically led the slaveholding nation in the South
-the handbill featured portraits of two prominent Rebel Generals who participated in the Convention
Wade Hampton:
-Democratic U.S. Senator from South Carolina
-he vacated the Senate to join the new slaveholding nation formed by southern Democrats
-in 1876, Hampton ran for the Democratic governorship of South Carolina
Pg. 54-The Red Shirts:
-one of his active allies in that election was a group called the “Red Shirts”
***the “Red Shirts” were the Klan just dressed in red shirts
-they had specific guidelines that every Democrat should fee honor bound to control the vote of at least one Negro by intimidation, purchasse, keeping him away, etc. by any means necessary
-called Democrats to attend all Radical (Republican) meeting to see who needed a night visit
-Democrats were told to go in larger numbers to all meetings and be well-armed
-newspapers included illustrations demonstrating how Democrats controlled votes in elections
***colored men voted for Democrats only out of self-preservation
-Wade Hampton’s elections was riddled with massive voter intimidation, but election too close to call
-the court had to intervene
-Hampton was declared the winner and became governor under extremely questionable circumstances
-editorials pictured a triumphant Democrat standing over the bodies of slaughtered African American voters
**It was called the “Bloody Shirt” Reformed
-with Democrat governor of the State, civil rights reforms in South Carolina came to a halt
-General Hampton had a role in the Democratic National convention of 1868
-as a member of the Resolutions Committee, he inserted a clause in the Democratic platform declaring that the civil rights laws of congress were:
“unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void”
-Democrats lashed out against the Republican civil rights measures, demanding:
“The abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau and all political instrumentalities designed to secure Negro supremacy.”
“Instead of restoring the Union, it (the Republican Party) has–so far as in its power–dissolved it, and subjected ten States, in time of profound peace, to military despotism and Negro supremacy.”
-Democratic errant claims were ludicrous as the years from 1865-1868 was not marked by “profound peace”
-It was profoundly violent with a rapid and expansive growth of the Klan who perpetrated numerous deadly attacks against African Americans
***-the ten States that Democrats that had seceded to form the slave-holding Confederate States of American claimed they were:
“Subjected to military depotism and Negro supremeacy”
-these States were not harmed by Negros, but required to recognize the civil rights of African Americans
-Democrats were accustomed to the suppression of black Americans that simply to give them equality was absurdly considered to be “Negro Supremacy”
***the Democrats saw that equality of blacks and that of making blacks and whites equal before the law meant “Negro Supremacy”