Thread: Historically, Dems Supported Slavery, GOPs Opposed

Originally Posted by jazzloversinc

1. TARIFF--Prior to the war about 75% of the money to operate the Federal Government was derived from the Southern States via an unfair sectional tariff on imported goods and 50% of the total 75% was from just 4 Southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Only 10%-20% of this tax money was being returned to the South. The Southern states were being treated as an agricultural colony of the North and bled dry. John Randolph of Virginia's remarks in opposition to the tariff of 1820 demonstrates that fact. The North claimed that they fought the war to preserve the Union but the New England Industrialists who were in control of the North were actually supporting preservation of the Union to maintain and increase revenue from the tariff. The industrialists wanted the South to pay for the industrialization of America at no expense to themselves. Revenue bills introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives prior to the War Between the States were biased, unfair and inflammatory to the South.
Abraham Lincoln had promised the Northern industrialists that he would increase the tariff rate if he was elected president of the United States. Lincoln increased the rate to a level that exceeded even the "Tariff of Abominations" 40% rate that had so infuriated the South during the 1828-1832 era ( between 50 and 51% on iron goods). The election of a president that was Anti-Southern on all issues and politically associated with the New England industrialists, fanatics, and zealots brought about the Southern secession movement.

This is a good point, and something I forgot to mention.

Hear that folks? The industrialists northern Republicans were FOR tariffs. Very much in favor of tariffs. Now the Republican Party does everything it can to eliminate protection of our domestic industry. Point being.......The two partys, and the nation as a whole has changed WAAAAYY too much to blame the Democratic Party for slavery. Everything has been flipped, flopped, and turned upside down.

Originally Posted by jazzloversinc

Oh the republicans in the north didn't keep slaves? why did US Grants wife and Mary Todd Lincoln keep slaves until the 13th 14 and 15th amendments were ratified? Why were there slaves in the White House until (and during) the War of Northern Aggression? I'm so sick of lies concerning slavery, and the true reasons for the War of Northern Aggression. Do the research.

Not to mention wage slaves in the North......

Yes..both parties are terrible. Both parties want amnesty so they can tax the illegals...they can'[t tax them now...all they care about is billions more tax dollars they can steal from the government coffers. The best thing we could do is select a third party and let the gop crash and burn.