I’m kind of sick and tired of seeing Dinesh D’Souza, Marc “The Grate One” Levin, Sean Hannity, and other neocon talking heads on TV go on and on and on about how the Republican party was supposedly founded by racial saints, virtual Mother Theresas, Christ-like figures sent to earth by God to battle the Big Bad Democrats, free the slaves, and create racial harmony and equality. They stupidly equate the Democrat party of the mid nineteenth century, the free-trade party of Martin Van Buren, with today’s Demo-Bolshevik party.
Puke. Here are some kernels of truth from the chapter entitled “Apostles of Racism” in Brion McClanahan’s new book, The Jeffersonian Tradition:
- “As a class the Blacks are indolent, improvident, servile, and licentious” (Republican abolitionist Horace Greely, who employed Karl Marx for ten years as an editorialist for the New York Tribune).
- “Down with amalgamation! Separate the Races!” (Proposed Republican party campaign theme by Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin).
- “Missouri for white men and white men for Missouri” (Campaign slogan of Republican Edward Bates, 1860. Bates was Lincoln’s attorney general).
- “It is certainly the wish of every patriot that all within the limits of our Union should be homogeneous in race . . . ” (Francis P. Blair of Maryland, the slave-owning founder of the Republican party, in 1860).
- “Colonization [aka deportation of blacks] would keep our Anglo-Saxon institutions as well as our Anglo-Saxon blood pure and uncontaminated.” (Republican Senator James Doolittle, 1858).
- “I want to have nothing to do with the free negro or the slave negro . . . . We whish to settle the Territories with free white men.” (Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull, a close Lincoln confidant, in 1858).
- Republicans “distinctly and emphatically disavow negro suffrage, negroes holding office, serving on juries and the like.” (Illinois Senator David Davis, who was Lincoln’s campaign manager in 1860 who Lincoln appointed to the Supreme Court in 1862).
- Lincoln quotes: “I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.” “And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” ” I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” “I will to the very last stand by the law of this State [Illinois], which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes.” “There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races . . .”
