Only ONE American Political Party EVER Advocated SLAVERY
In an argument, sliding towards a flame war on a forum I frequent, the lie of Republican Racism was repeated a few too many times for me.
In looking to disprove the claim that “The difference is that the Democrats as a matter of Party policy have put aside racism and instituted massive civil rights reforms over the last sixty years. The Republicans have, as a matter of stated Party policy, opposed every single one of them and have spent three Presidential Administrations rolling them back.” I stumbled across this site: The American Presidency Project it is run by UCSB and includes EVERY political party platform from 1840 to 2004 (democrat and republican). Very interesting reading. That Congress has no power, under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States; and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything pertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts, by abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend to our Political Institutions. That? Oh, THAT is from the Democratic Party Platform of 1844, giving the Democrats the distinction of being the ONLY political party to advocate slavery. There is a simply staggering amount of racial intolerance in the Democratic platforms. I am amazed that they actually put that vileness to paper, and history.
What prompted this, was my posting of a link to this rather good Wall Street Journal piece by Bruce Bartlett: Whitewash
The racist history the Democratic Party wants you to forget
