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Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 9:15 am By: Big Bob

Yeah John, I confused the federal legislative part of the 13th Amendment with the Emancipation Proclamation. You have a keen eye for historical detail.

Your recountment of General Waite would make a fine post here on ENC NOW in our reformed "A Historical Perspective" section.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 8:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

If this passes as written, this one piece of legislation will be the end of California in any conceivable viability as a functioning state.

This is the perfect example that Stupidity Can Get YOU Killed, and in this case, it will be the death of an entire state ... Mark my word.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

John, still, I thought the Emancipation Proclamation passed the Northern congress, which also, as as by-product, brought "Negro" soldiers in the Northern Army.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:24 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Actually, the Emancipation Proclamation was a foreign policy manuever aimed at England and France and it largely fizzled. The British did not believe it for a whole host of reasons. The French media played it as an attempt to stoke a slave uprising and gencide of the white population in the South, pointing to the slave rebellion and genocide of the white population in Haiti when it was a French colony. It was a PR blunder for Lincoln in France.

It also purported to free slaves in a foreign country with which it was at war, the CSA, but did not free slaves within LIncoln's own country in the four slave states still in the Union. Then later in 1863, the north admitted a fifth slave state, West Virginia, to the union. Yeah that "freeing the slaves" bit is really nuanced.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm By: John Steed

When it comes to those woke fools who engage in cancel culture against the South and our heritage, they forfeit my vote and my family's votes. We have not voted for Greg Murphy since his series of cancel culture votes against the South, and will not in the future. We won't vote Democrat, as they are worse, but we will skip Murphy. Maybe if there were a reasonably conserevative 3rd party candidate, we might vote that way, but NEVER Murphy, and never a Democrat.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 3:38 pm By: Rino Hunter

Bobbie, you really do not know much about history do you? Lincoln's rationale for attacking the South was "to preserve the union", not to end slavery. The Republican platofrm of 1860 did not call for the abolition of slavery in the South. The month before Lincoln sent an armed intervention fleet to Charletson, forcing the South to take Fort Sumter before it arrived, Congress passed two major bills. At that time, the souterhn members of Congress had resigned and left, and the north had total control. One bill was the Morrill Tariff that almost tripled import duties, a huge deal for the South. The other was the Corwin Amendment.

What was the Corwin Amendment? It was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that was passed by the required supermajority and submitted to the states for ratification. Lincoln endoresed it in his first Inaugural Address. The Corwin Amendment would have given Constitutioinal protection to slavery and made it impossible to abolish at the national level without amending the Constitution again.

Saying the north started the war to end slavery, just weeks after passing a Constitutional Amendment to pootect slavery is ludicrous.

Then their is the Fremont Affair. Missouri's state government was pro-Southern, so in 1861, Lincoln appointed General Fremont as miliary governor of the state. Fremont was an abolishionist and used that authority to issue a proclaimation abolishing slavery in the state. Lincoln responded by firing Fremont, revoking the proclamation, and using federal troops to return slaves that Fremont had already freed to their masters.

That over a year after the war started Lincoln went on an anti-slavery kick was mostly a foreign policy ploy. He finally comprehended how close his government had come to the UK entering the war on the side of the South in the Trent Affair, and his "preserve the union" gambit was laughted at in the UK. "How can a country that owes its own existance to seceding from the British empire possibly complain about someone secceding from them?", the Brits chortled. Lincoln was trying to create a moral stand to keep the UK out of the war, but many in the UK never believed it. The quotes below from Marx and Dickens are good examples of that, as well as an incident in the House of Commons when a pro-northern MP made reference to the war being about slavery but was shouted down in parliament with cries of "No, its the tariffs".

While I would agree that the end of slavery was by far the most important psoitive result of the war, it was NOT the cause of the war.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By: John Steed

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 12:41 pm By: Peppermint

What in the world!!!??? Has Bragg lost his ever loving mind? He is really grasping at straws now. A penguin and a snowman....really? A heinous crime? A liberal will stop at nothing trying to reach his ultimate goal and that is to get Trump any way he can. Why not concentrate on the lawlessness of your city Bragg?

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 12:41 pm By: Peppermint

Remember, "phonics" begind=ns with a "p".

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 9:24 am By: Big Bob

It is bad enough when illegal aliens demand cultural changes in western countries, but when globalists among our own citizens try to destroy our history, that is a low blow.

While French president Macron is a worm on many things, he did get preservation of history right. When the French branch of BLM started demanding removal of history, Macron went on nationwide TV and announced that no one would be erased from French history and no monuments would be removed. When BLM decided to attack a monument in Paris they didn't like, Macron sent a heavy police detail to defend it and arrest the attackers, who were then charged with major crimes, convicted, and jailed. That put an end to the attacks on mounuments.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 12:26 pm By: borderhawk

This is exactly why parents can no longer trust teachers in our school system. Yes, there are some who are great teachers who do good work in educating students and keep politics out of the classroom. But there are others who are themselves indoctrinated in these leftwing college education classes or through the far left NCAE teachers union. Unless you know all teachers involved personally, there is no way to tell which group they fall into. That is why parents and citizens simply have to have oversight about what is going on in our schools and why we need a school board that will be vigilent in overseeing any recommendation brought to them and do their own research.

There is even a grant program at NC State University to turn out politicized "progressive" teachers to indoctrinate students in those political beliefs here in eastern North Carolina. To know that radical teachers are already here, one only has to look at the national list of teachers who declared they will still teach the Marxist CRT even if school policy says not to do so, and the number of teachers in eastern North Carolina actively proclaiming that. One has to wonder how many more do exactly that but just don't openly declare it.

If we cannot depoliticize our public schools, it may soon be time to look for alternatives, and the NC legislature is on the cusp of giving parents the ability to have vouchers to use to educate their children elsewhere.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 11:02 am By: John Steed