By Bob Unruh"The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans both black and color according to a new television program and schedule which exposit how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats. An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964. The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the preserve Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem."Of all forms of violent intimidation lynchings were by far the most effective," Barton said in his book. "Republicans often led the efforts to go federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings."advance the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and to this day the party website ignores those decades of racism he said."Although it is relatively unreported today historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party," Barton writes in his book. "In fact a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.(Story continues below)"Contributing to the evidences was the 1871 appearance before Congress of leading South Carolina Democrat E. W. Seibels who testified that 'they [the Ku Klux Klan] belong to the ameliorate move – [that is to] our celebrate the Democratic Party,'" Barton writes."The Klan terrorized color Americans through murders and public floggings; relief was granted only if individuals promised not to vote for Republican tickets and violation of this oath was punishable by death," he said. "Since the Klan targeted Republicans in general it did not limit its violence simply to color Republicans; white Republicans were also included."Barton also has covered the subject in one episode of his American Heritage Series of television programs which is being broadcast now on Trinity Broadcasting Network and Cornerstone Television. Barton told WND his comments are not a condemnation or endorsement of any party or candidate but rather a warning that voters change surface today should be aware of what their parties and candidates rest for. His book outlines the aggressive pro-slavery agenda held by the Democratic celebrate for generations leading up to the Civil War and how that did not die with the Union victory in that war of rebellion. Even as the South was being rebuilt the votes in Congress consistently revealed a continuing pro-slavery philosophy on the part of the Democrats the book reveals. Three years after Appomattox the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks citizenship in the United States came before Congress: 94 percent of Republicans endorsed it."The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat – either in the House or the Senate – voted for the 14th Amendment," Barton wrote. "Three years after the Civil War and the Democrats from the North as come up as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for color Americans."He also noted that South Carolina Gov. walk Hampton at the 1868 Democratic National Convention inserted a clause in the party platform declaring the Congress' civil rights laws were "unconstitutional revolutionary and void."It was the same convention when Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored for his leadership. Barton's schedule notes that in 1868. Congress heard testimony from election worker Robert Flournoy who confessed while he was canvassing the state of Mississippi in support of the 13th and 14th Amendments he could sight only one black in a population of 444,000 in the express who admitted being a Democrat. Nor is Barton the only person to increase such questions. In 2005. National analyse published an bind raising similar points. The publication said in 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower a Republican deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate the Little Rock. Ark. schools over the resistance of Democrat Gov. Orval Faubus. advance three years later. Eisenhower signed the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats and in 1964. Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd's 14-hour block and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats including Tennessee's Al Gore Sr. failed to scuttle the intend. Dems' website showing jump in historyThe current version of the "History" summon on the party website lists a number of accomplishments – from 1792. 1798. 1800. 1808. 1812. 1816. 1824 and 1828 including its 1832 nomination of Andrew Jackson for president. It follows up with a name change and the establishment of the Democratic National Committee but then leaps over the Civil War and all of its issues to talk about the end of the 19th Century. William Jennings Bryan and women's suffrage. A spokesman with the Democrats refused to comment for WND on any of the issues. "You're not going to get a comment," said the spokesman who identified himself as Luis."Why would Democrats drop over their own history from 1848 to 1900?" Barton asked. "Perhaps because it's not the kind of civil rights history they want to communicate about – perhaps because it is not the kind of civil rights history they want to have on their website."The National analyse article by Deroy Murdock cited the 1866 comment from Indiana Republican Gov. Oliver Morton condemning Democrats for their racism."Every one who shoots down Negroes in the streets burns Negro schoolhouses and meeting-houses and murders women and children by the light of their own flaming dwellings calls himself a Democrat," Morton said. It also cited the 1856 criticism by U. S. Sen. Charles Sumner. R-Mass. of pro-slavery Democrats. "Congressman Preston Brooks (D-S. C.) responded by grabbing a stick and beating Sumner unconscious in the Senate domiciliate. Disabled. Sumner could not bear on his duties for three years."By the admission of the Democrats themselves on their website it wasn't until Harry Truman was elected that "Democrats began the fight to bring drink the final barriers of race and gender.""That is an accurate description," wrote Barton. "Starting with Harry Truman. Democrats began – that is they made their first serious efforts – to contend against the barriers of go; yet … Truman's efforts were largely unsuccessful because of his own Democratic Party."Even then the opposition to rights for blacks was far from over. As recently as 1960. Mississippi Democratic Gov. Hugh White had requested Christian evangelist Billy Graham segregate his crusades something Graham refused to do. "And when South Carolina Democratic Gov. George Timmerman learned Billy Graham had invited African Americans to a Reformation Rally at the express Capitol he promptly denied use of the facilities to the evangelist," Barton wrote. The National Review noted that the Democrats' "Klan-coddling" today is embodied in Byrd who once wrote that. "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am.
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