Just the facts…and where better to look but the Civil War era to see just who took what stand.

Stephan A. Douglas [DEMOCRAT]  aka “Little Giant”

Douglas [DEMOCRAT], once an Illinois senator with presidential aspirations…how ironic that he’s now buried on the shores of Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois, complete with a MONUMENT.

Douglas was well-known as a resourceful [DEMOCRAT] party leader.  He reopened the slavery question with the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which had been prohibited by earlier compromises). The protest movement against this became the Republican Party.

Douglas  [DEMOCRAT] became a member of the Masonic fraternity in Springfield Lodge No. 4 in Springfield, Illinois in 1839. He was a member of several Masonic organizations in Springfield. Also known to be pro-slavery.

Douglas [DEMOCRAT]  stated in a speech at Galesburg that the authors of the Declaration of Independence did not intend to include blacks. “This Government was made by our fathers on the white basis . . . made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever,” he said. Lincoln pointedly denied Douglas’ assertion that the Declaration of Independence did not include minorities.

Douglas  [DEMOCRAT] introduced the Kansas-Nebraska act in January, 1854.  His claim:

“It simply legislates Non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, which opens the country to freedom by leaving the people perfectly free to do as they please”. 

He literally believed his bill would “impart peace to the country and stability to the Unions”.  (Letter from Douglas to his friend Howell Cobb)

You see, in his [DEMOCRAT] mind, blacks weren’t “people who counted”.  Douglas [DEMOCRAT]  embraced a democratic doctrine that only whites were citizens.

President James Buchanan, Jr.  [DEMOCRAT], used the Dred-Scott case, which had reached the Supreme Court while he was President-elect, to show his true colors when he, upon learning that the Supreme Court was split on its decision, interferred.  Buchanan wrote one of the wavering justices to urge him to a “broader decision” – as in tipping the scales in the Dread Scott Case in favor of slave owners.  Buchanan, knowing full well a decision was to be announced soon, used this issue during his inaugural address on March 4.  (March 6 of that year the Supreme Court spoke their final decision).

History certainly does repeat itself… In 1859  Buchanan spoke at Notre Dame – and his presence there invoked much antipathy. Ahead of Buchanan’s speech, at least 27 people were arrested on trespassing charges from protests outside the university, according to police reports. Among the protesters was Dred Scott, the plaintiff in the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.  In strong opposition to slavery, Mr. Scot joined more than 300 anti-slavery demonstrators at the school’s front gate. More than half held signs, some declaring “Shame on Notre Dame” and “Stop Slavery Now” to express their anger over Notre Dame’s invitation to Buchanan, saying the university had lost touch with its Abolitionist roots.

The abomination of slavery become a very heated issue. Democrats began to fight with democrats; yet, not whether or not slavery was wrong, just how it should be continued! In an angry interview in the White House, Buchanan threatened Douglas [DEMOCRAT], reminding him that Democratic senators who were disloyal to President Jackson had lost elections. (Jackson [DEMOCRAT] was pro-slavery).  This took place in 1857 as the democrats pro-slavery faction rode roughshod over the popular will.

Roger Brooke Taney [DEMOCRAT] (chief justice of United States at the time), who found his home with the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson, handed down the decision that “slaves were forever property and without any rights that white men were bound to respect.  No black could be a citizen, nor could a slave sue for his freedom.”  This ruling also declared that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the federal territories.  The decision opened up all the territories to slavery, sealed that policy in concrete, and made it national.

More on the “Little [DEMOCRAT] Giant, Douglas:

Douglas [DEMOCRAT], 1854, Jonesboro debate: 

“…for the benefit of White men and their posterity forever…I do not believe that the Almighty made the negro capable of self-government.”

Douglas [DEMOCRAT] denounced as sacrilegious and undemocratic the petitions signed by thousands of clergymen in 1854 who said the Nebraska Act offended God’s will.

Douglas [DEMOCRAT]  was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois.  The site was afterwards bought by the state, and a monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave.  The Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial is located at 800 E. 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Douglas,  [DEMOCRAT], lauded by the NY Tribune to the point Lincoln is quoted as saying, “What does the New-York Tribuen mean by it’s constant eulogising and admiring, and magnifing Douglas? Does it, in  this, speak the sentiments of the republicans at Washington? Have they concluded that the republican cause, generally, can be best promoted by sacraficing us here in Illinois? If so we would like to know it soon; it will save us a great deal of labor to surrender at once.”

ENTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

1858: Lincoln’s words:

“…inculcate, wtih whatever of ability they can, that the negro is a man; that his bondage is cruelly wrong, and that the field of his oppression ought not to be enlarged.  The Democrats deny his manhood; deny or dwarf to insignificance, the wrong of his bondage; so far as possible, crush all sympathy for him, and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him; compliment themselves as Union-savers for doing so; and call the indefinite outspreading of his bondage ‘a sacred right of self-government.’”

And…

“They [Republicans] think salvery is wrong; and that, like every other wrong which some men will commit if left alone, it ought to be prohibited by law.  They consider it not only morally wrong, but a deadly poison in a government like ours, professedly based on the equality of men.  Upon this radical difference of opinion with Judge Douglas, the Republican party was organized.  There is all the difference between him and them now than there ever was.”

As Lincoln so aptly put, “Douglas in every way was denying the black man his right as a man.”

DOUGLAS: THE “LITTLE GIANT OF THE DEMOCRATS.

1. WHO ARE THE REAL RACISTS? 
2. WHEN WILL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACH THE REAL HISTORY OF OUR NATION? 
3. WHEN WILL DEMOCRATS ADMIT TO THEIR OWN TRUE FOUNDATION?

Say, do you think B.O. enjoys visiting Douglas’ MONUMENT there in Chicago???

Democrats, you’re a bunch of racist, hypocritical, money-grubbing, lobbyist-loving tyrants and it’s past time your power grab comes to a screeching halt.

The sleeping giant has, indeed, awakened.

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