Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Page #3

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[cries]

[D'Souza] What was Betty's offense?

Betty washed clothes for neighbors

without asking permission

of the Jacksons.

In 1804, Jackson placed ads

in Northern newspapers

for the return of one

of his runaway slaves.

Jackson offered $50 and an extra $1 0

for each 1 00 lashes,

up to 300 lashes,

which was pretty much

a death sentence.

And on his own plantation,

Jackson's slaves

were treated just as harshly.

- [whip cracks]

- How does that feel?

- How does that feel?

- Aah!

[screams]

You better think

before you try to run!

That's what will happen to you boys

if you try to run. You understand me?

- Is it done?

- Yes, sir.

[D'Souza] With the slaves,

Jackson didn't just steal their labor.

What is it about Democratic presidents

and innocent, young women?

Why did the Democrats elect

a racist like Jackson?

Because the party was racist

through and through.

The Republican Party formed

from opposition to the idea

of extending slavery

into the territories

and requiring free states

to return runaway slaves.

The most notorious defender of slavery

was Democratic senator John C. Calhoun,

Andrew Jackson's vice president.

Traditionally, slavery was defended

as a necessary evil,

but Calhoun went further,

arguing that slavery benefited

both the master and the slave.

Instead of an evil, a good...

a positive good.

[D'Souza] A moral justification

for slavery?

No, this was a con man's pitch.

Today's Democrats try to duck their

party's responsibility for slavery

by blaming it on the South.

But, in fact, the Northern Democrats

also protected slavery.

Their ingenious advocate was

Illinois senator Stephen Douglas.

Douglas thought each state,

each territory,

should decide for itself

if it wanted slavery,

and he envisioned slavery

lasting forever, not just in America,

but spreading to other countries

as well.

The Republican Party was born

with a single overriding purpose..

to stop the spread of slavery.

When Republican senator

Charles Sumner, in 1856,

vehemently denounced slavery,

he got a most extraordinary response

from Democratic congressman

Preston Brooks.

[all shouting]

[D'Souza] The attack nearly killed him.

The Democrats support slavery

and think it should be extended,

while we Republicans oppose slavery.

[D'Souza] Lincoln understood slavery

was a form of theft.

[coughs]

[auctioneer calling]

Sixty-five... [continues calling]

- Seventy-five? Sold!

- Right over here.

[D'Souza] Slavery is the theft

of a person's life and freedom

and the fruit

of their labor.

As Lincoln put it, ''You work, I eat. ''

- A toast to the Democratic Party.

- [all] Hear, hear!

[D'Souza] We often hear of the Civil War

as a contest

between the anti-slavery North

and the pro-slavery South.

This is Democratic Party propaganda.

It may seem strange that men should

dare to ask a just God's assistance

in wringing their bread from the sweat

of other men's faces.

Fondly do we hope,

fervently do we pray, that this mighty

scourge of war may speedily pass away.

[D'Souza] In the end, there was

only one way to stop them.

[all shouting]

Aah!

[all shouting]

Yet if God wills that it continue

until all the wealth piled

by the bondsman's 250 years

of unrequited toil be sunk,

and until every drop of blood

drawn with the lash

be paid by another drawn with the sword,

as was said 3,000 years ago,

so still must be said,

''The judgments of the Lord

are true and righteous altogether.''

[D'Souza] ''But wait a minute, ''you say,

''Didn't some Republicans own slaves?''

Actually, no.

No Republicans owned slaves.

Think about it. All the slaves

at the time of the Civil War

were owned by Democrats.

So the Civil War is better understood

as a contest between

the anti-slavery Republican Party

and the pro-slavery Democratic Party.

Why are we dying for these Negroes?

Well, the right

to put into his own mouth

the bread that his own hands have earned

is as equal as any other man,

black or white.

All I ask for the Negro is that

if you don't like him, let him alone.

If God gave him but little,

that little, let him enjoy.

Yes, sir.

What's your name, son?

James McKnight.

And you?

Askum, sir, Ronald Askum.

I thank you for your service, men.

[D'Souza] Lincoln wanted to give

freed slaves citizenship,

equal rights,

and the right to vote.

The Democrats couldn't believe it.

So they killed the father

of the Republican Party.

Confronted with the Democratic Party's

legacy of oppression

from Indian massacres

to broken treaties,

to slavery, the Democrats say,

''Yes, but we are the party of

the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. ''

But wait a minute. There was another

Civil Rights Movement,

this one in the 1860s,

and it was led by the Republican Party.

The Democrats don't want you to know

about this Civil Rights Movement

because they fought against it.

This civil rights act

will allow colored men

to sit at the same table

beside the white guests.

[all] No!

And he shall enter the same parlor

and take his seat beside the wife and

daughter of the white man...

[all] No!

...whether the white man

is willing or not!

[all] No!

[D'Souza] The civil rights revolution

of the 1960s

did nothing more than secure guarantees

for equal rights and voting rights

that had already been put into the

Constitution 1 00 years previously

by the Republican Party.

And here's a little-known fact.

More Republicans than Democrats

voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Today's Democrats take credit

for civil rights legislation,

But what was their contribution?

They finally agreed to stop

filibustering it so it could pass.

You've heard about

''40 acres and a mule. ''

The Republican Party

set aside 400,000 acres

of confiscated Confederate land

and began dividing it

to give freed slaves

40 acres and a leftover army mule.

Democrat president Andrew Johnson

gave the land back

to its former plantation owners.

Today the Democrats proclaim themselves

the party of economic opportunity,

but the truth is, they fought to stop

the Thirteenth Amendment,

which permanently abolished slavery.

The Republicans passed it

with 1 00 percent support,

77 percent of Democrats

voted against it.

Democrats today call themselves

the party of social justice,

but they fought to block

the Fourteenth Amendment

that gave citizenship to blacks

and established equality of rights

under the law.

It passed with 94 percent

Republican support in Congress.

Every Democrat voted against it.

And Democrats today never tire

of lecturing Republicans

about racial equality,

but it was the Democratic Party that

fought against the Fifteenth Amendment,

refusing to give slaves

the right to vote.

Every Republican in Congress voted for

the Fifteenth Amendment.

Every Democrat voted against it.

Ah, yes, and in case we forget,

Republicans also gave women

the right to vote.

The suffragettes were

virtually all Republicans.

Democrats opposed women's suffrage,

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