April 15, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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It's Easter weekend.
It's Confederate History Month, and we're having a great time with you, dear friends, listeners and fans here this Saturday evening, April 15th, 2017.
James Edwards here, Keith Alexander, right across the studio from me.
And it is the time of the show this night where we're going to be talking about Confederate History Month.
But first, quick wrap on the previous hour segment on Trump and the flip-flopping and what may be going on.
Listen, he is got three years and nine months left in this term unless he's impeached or dies.
And there's still a lot of time to turn this thing around.
I hope he will somehow become the man we thought he was or hoped he was.
Maybe not thought, but hoped he was last year during that campaign.
But if you look at the first hundred days, and we're at that point now, the first hundred days, remember, right after he was elected, his campaign issued a stunning agenda for what he wanted to accomplish in the first hundred days.
Almost none of that has come to pass.
You could say, well, the judges blocked this and the Democrats and the liberal Republicans blocked that.
Well, that may be true, but a lot of it wasn't even attempted.
And a lot of it was attempted half-heartedly.
But I would say this.
No matter what happens with Trump, the cause that he espoused and the people who put him in the White House will still be there.
It was always the case.
They've awakened the sleeping giant.
And that sleeping always is not going back to sleep anytime soon.
It was always the case.
It wasn't about Trump.
It was what came after Trump because Trump was never going to be the total solution.
That's our prayer.
That's right.
It was just the start of something.
And the movement behind Trump still exists.
And it will go somewhere from here if Trump isn't the vessel to take us to the next destination.
Keith, very, very quickly, because we've got such a slam-packed show.
You wanted to make a final word on Trump?
Well, let's look at the big picture geopolitically that it seems to be coming down on foreign policy.
You have two out of three superpowers that are white nations, Russia and the United States, and one outlier, China, which is not white.
Well, what has been wrought by Jewish power and influence, in this case, in the form of neoconservative infiltration into Trump's inner circle?
Well, what's happened is that the two white superpowers are at each other's throats, and they're vying to make an alliance with the non-white superpower.
The Jews knew that they did not want the two white superpowers gathering together, being united, because if they did, they would be an unstoppable juggernaut.
And basically, one thing Russians are is Jew-wise, and they would not have succumbed to the same type of subversion that Trump and the United States typically succumbs to with this.
So basically, this is what Jewish power and influence has accomplished.
They have managed to triangulate this situation where the Goyam are up here possibly.
Let's say they went to war.
We'd knock each other out, and the Chinese would wait in the wings, and then they would take over the attenuated victor and wipe them out, and then they'd be in charge of the world.
This is what Jewish power and influence does.
Best of all, they have this unquenchable anger and opposition to the white goym.
And this is what seems to be playing out now, unfortunately.
And we'll follow up on this next week, next month, and for the months and years to come, God willing.
I would say this, though, and this is the Confederate History Month hour, and we are going to get to it.
I think we got a good one lined up for you, but just a quick bit of breaking news, and if I don't work it in here, it won't get worked in at all.
Richard Spencer was scheduled to speak at Albright, Alabama at the University of Auburn on Tuesday, or Auburn University, if you will.
On Tuesday, as late as the middle of last week, Auburn University said that it was going to go on.
They believe in free speech.
They hate Richard, and he's disgusting, but free speech is just that, and he can come like anybody else.
It's a public institution.
Well, on Friday, oh, don't you know, it was the old, well, there may be violence, so we've got to cancel this thing.
And what happens, of course, is there was no violence coming from Richard's side or from the alt-right.
What happens is, if there were threats of violence at all, which who knows if there was or was not.
From the left, yeah, I'm just saying.
That would be from the left.
It would be from the left.
So can you imagine if it had been a black person going in and then whites were threatening violence?
And then the university says, well, there's threats of violence against these people, so we're just going to cancel.
No, it wouldn't happen.
Martin Luther King can't speak.
Well, I joked about that.
I said Governor Wallace should have canceled all of the civil rights marches in Alabama due to safety concerns, as Albert put it, except for, actually, Governor Wallace should have done that.
But Barack Obama, think of all the degenerates and Marxists that these universities entertain and host.
But, you know, this is nothing new under the sun.
I've been through this 10 years ago, 10 years ago.
David Duke and I, we had, you remember this, here in Memphis, we had this sold-out venue.
500 people had registered, big conference.
We actually had a county adjacent to Shelby County here in Memphis, one of the adjacent counties.
The county government declared a state of emergency to help the venue get out of its contract with us.
But you know what?
We persevered.
We went on.
We dug our heels in it.
We had that event.
We didn't have it at that venue, but the show did go on.
Now, also remember that law enforcement advised me, quote unquote, back in 2015 to stop promoting that Confederate flag rally that we had at Nathan Bedford Forest Park.
Well, we went on with it.
You have to move forward.
You have to press on.
You have to be able to.
They ever told shows.
People at Black Lives Matter that they can't proceed with one of their protests.
But the fact of the matter is, state of emergency was declared.
We went on with that event, and it was fine.
The Department of Homeland Security here said, quit promoting a Confederate flag rally.
We had it.
500 people showed up at that event.
It was one of the greatest triumphs of my life.
So I understand Richard has to go on and do this thing.
And he is.
And Richard's saying now he's going to make it a bigger spectacle than he ever would have before.
And he's sending people down there to buy riot gear.
So the bottom line is this.
Auburn is basically, if they're telling the truth, they are capitulating to the heckler's veto.
So the Supreme Court has weighed in on this so-called heckler's veto, which is when people who oppose you threaten violence and get the thing canceled.
And infringe upon the Speaker's First Amendment rights.
And the Supreme Court has said exactly this, that threatening violence cannot be allowed to become a veto on free speech.
Well, it has been just that in Auburn.
Richard's going anyway.
He may be walking around the sidewalks of Auburn with his team, but he's going to be there.
Going to be a big spectacle on Tuesday there in Alabama.
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And we'll talk about it more next week.
But we promise when we come back, the rest of this hour is a celebration of Confederate history, and we'll bring it to you in just a minute.
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Well, it's time for Confederate history.
And this is, again, we're the only AM radio show in the world that celebrates Confederate History Month on the air every week during the month of April, which is, of course, Confederate History Month.
Great hour and a half tribute to the South last week with Dr. Michael Hill as our featured guest, Eddie Miller, really, the bombardier, really added to that conversation.
We're going to have him on, of course, next week.
And he's going to share with us what it means to be born a Southerner and all of this from a very personal perspective.
And we're still going to have some great guests and some great insights on Confederate history.
But one thing that we've done in the past, Keith Alexander really does possess an encyclopedic knowledge about history and really just about everything.
The man's just a walking book.
And even though an attorney by trade, he could have been a professor, actually a decent one, a good one, which is to say a lot.
I'm not saying good by comparison or decent by comparison.
I mean, decent as what a professor should be instead of what they are.
He could have taken that route if he had chosen a different path.
Well, we're going to ask Keith to break this down because nobody else will do it but us here in the mainstream media.
I'm going to ask Keith just very basic questions.
What was the war really all about and why were our ancestors in the South justified and righteous in fighting it?
You know a little bit about this.
Of course, the narrative is the South fought that war for one reason and one reason only, to maintain white supremacy and to keep slaves.
And thankfully, Sherman and Lincoln were able to rape and murder and burn man, woman, and child in order to beat the bad guys.
Well, it just wasn't that way.
Keith, the cause for the war, why were we right?
Take it away.
Leave no stone unturned.
Okay, here we go.
Well, the left is in charge of America.
And the left wouldn't want to even study the Civil War if they could not use it to their own advantage.
It has to somehow advance their promotion of a revolution in America, a transformation of America.
So consequently, they have put the Civil War into the template of race relations.
And they are saying that basically the South fought the war over slavery.
That's the reason the South seceded from the Union because the righteous Abraham Lincoln did not want slavery to continue, but the evil and mendacious Southerners did.
Now, that's wrong in so many ways.
We'll just start to unpack it.
First of all, Lincoln was not anti-slavery.
He was not the great emancipator.
He said that he would preserve the Union, and that was his goal, if he had to free every slave, if he only freed part of the slaves, or if he didn't free a single slave.
He also said that the South, you know, when the Virginia delegation met in the phony war period between secession of the first seven states, the Gulf states, and the shots fired on Fort Sumter, a delegation from the legislature of the state of Virginia met with Lincoln.
Now Lincoln did not during this meeting say, what about the issue of slavery?
You know what his comments were?
What about my tariff?
The whole nation depended on excises for financing back then.
There was no income tax.
In fact, income taxes were prohibited specifically in the original Constitution of the United States of America.
Our first experience with an income tax was as a temporary tax to help finance the Union effort in the Civil War.
And then they had to pass the 16th Amendment in 1913 in order to justify having a federal income tax.
But most of that, you know, from the founding of the nation in 1791 until 1913, it was unconstitutional to have a income tax.
So how did the federal government finance its operations?
They financed their operations through a series of excise taxes, such as tariffs on manufactured goods, also a tax on alcoholic beverages.
That's what the Whiskey Rebellion was about in 1793, for example.
But what they did with this money was they, whenever the Whigs, who were the predecessors to the Republicans, came into political power when they got the presidency,
their perennial project was what they called internal improvements, transportation systems in the frontier and in the expansion of the United States to support it.
Well, 90% of the money for internal improvements was being generated by the South.
The South had agricultural products to sell.
The North, particularly New England, was trying to develop a manufacturing economy.
So they didn't need to import foreign manufactured goods.
The South, on the other hand, was obliged to buy foreign manufactured goods in order to induce their trade partners in Germany, in France, in Britain to buy their agricultural products.
So very little money from tariffs on foreign manufactured goods were being paid in the North, where a heck of a lot were being paid in the South.
Well, this money was being made to, in large part, support the development of transportation systems, internal improvements like the Pennsylvania Turnpike, like the Erie Canal, like increasingly throughout the antebellum period, railroads.
Well, over 90% of those internal improvements, those transportation systems were located outside the South.
On the eve of the Civil War, there was only one major interior east-west railroad in what was to become the Confederacy.
That was the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, which was completed in 1857, and it was all financed by private funds.
No assist from the government.
Meanwhile, up north, the Grand Trunk Railroad, the Reading Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, all of these railroads were financed in large part with federal money obtained for internal improvements under Whig administrations.
So the South felt that their cow was being milked through the fence.
It's hard to imagine now, but on the eve of the Civil War, guess what the most prosperous state in the Union was?
It was Mississippi.
But also, Mississippi had the least developed infrastructure of any state at the time.
The South, the southern states, particularly the ones on the coast, were part of what was called the Golden Circle.
We had Michael Cushman on, I think, about a year ago, where he interviewed with us about a book he wrote called Our Southern Nation, and he talked about the Golden Circle.
Well, the Golden Circle were the Caribbean colonies of European nations that tended to be the most prosperous colonies that all of these European nations had, and they had plantation systems and they had slavery.
But slavery was on its way out.
Mechanization, Eli Whitney's cotton gin, for example, was just the beginning.
That was a camel's nose in the tent.
Basically, slavery was not only on the way out in America, it was on the way out throughout the Western Hemisphere.
By 1785, I mean, 1885, excuse me, the last Western hemispheric nation, Brazil, ended slavery without a war.
No other nation had a war to end slavery.
Slavery was just an excuse for Lincoln.
Furthermore, if slavery was really the to bring the war and to make the South stay in place so that they could continue to melt the southern cow through the fence.
We're going to go into more of this, and we're also going to discuss two legislative events that give the lie to the argument that slavery was what the Civil War is all about after these words from our sponsors.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, one of the things that's so important is we cannot allow ourselves to be separated from our heroes and our history.
Yes, as a son of a man who fought for the Confederate Army, I am so proud.
But these are not just Southern heroes.
They are certainly that, but they're much more than that.
People who fought for the Confederacy should be heroes to every freedom-loving individual across this country and around the world.
People give us a lot of credit.
People call us heroes for fighting this battle in the court of public opinion, for coming on the radio and taking these positions and standing up to constant attack.
I guess we risk a lot more than most in this day and age, but we risk nothing compared to what true heroes risked.
And we are here to celebrate true heroes tonight.
The last people, really the last American people who ever stood up to fight the federal leviathan, complaining about things and griping on the internet.
I mean, there's a place for that.
But you're talking about people who actually went to war.
I will salute that.
Those were men.
And so, yes, we are recognizing the heroes, but also remembering the true history.
And you're not going to hear this in school.
You're not going to hear real history on TV.
You will hear it here on the Liberty News Radio Network and on the political cesspool.
And Keith is giving it tonight.
And I always like to turn Keith loose for one hour each Confederate History Month to break it down.
This isn't a showcase of an individual giant of the Confederacy like a Lee or a Forrest or a Jackson or any of these other people.
This is just the brass tax on the history itself, which this is Confederate History Month.
So certainly the causes of the war.
The Confederate States of America was a wartime nation.
The entire nation was born, lived out its life, and died during war.
And so the war obviously is a big part of Confederate history.
So Keith, remind everybody what we were talking about in the last segment and then continue with your dissertation.
Well, it's basically confronting head-on the primary myth that the left perpetuates about the Civil War, which is that the South seceded from the Union because they did not want to give up slavery, that somehow they took this fiendish delight in tormenting black folks and keeping them enslaved, and that was the primary, in fact,
albeit the sole purpose of the Civil War was the South insisted on preserving this evil institution of slavery.
And of course, if you ever challenge a left-winger on this, they will smugly say, of course it was about slavery.
Then your reply needs to be, well, what about the Corwin Amendment?
And they'll have this puzzled look on their face, and they'll say, what was that?
The Corwin Amendment was the proposed first 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
If the South had remained in the Union, if the Southern states had remained in the Union and had voted for the Corwin Amendment, it would have passed.
And the 13th Amendment, rather than being about prohibiting slavery and the emancipation of the slave population of the United States, it would have said this, that slavery would remain forever legal and sacrosanct in every state and territory in which it was then legal.
That would have been everything south of the Missouri Compromise from Missouri to the West Coast and all the existing Confederate states plus states, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland, excuse me, four, and Delaware.
Delaware was a slave state too.
They would all have remained slave states.
Slavery would have remained.
Now, Pennsylvania and Ohio voted and had their legislatures endorse this particular proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
And Abraham Lincoln, far from being an opponent of this, actually sent handwritten notes to the governors of every state in the Union urging the passage of the Corwin Amendment.
So we make this enormous mistake of projecting upon historical figures and historical peoples current morality.
Slavery was not the cause of the Civil War.
I can tell you that antebellum Americans, both in the North and the South, were not willing to sacrifice their sons, their fathers, their husbands, and their brothers in a crusade to emancipate black slaves, which is what the left today would have you imagine was going on.
Basically, abolitionists were considered the lunatic left fringe of American politics back in antebellum America.
Furthermore, a lot of abolitionists were not motivated by love for black people.
In fact, you have the Gadson purchase and you had, what was it, the, what was that manifesto?
I'm trying to remember the name of the free soil candidate from Pennsylvania who was in Congress, who Said that there would be no slavery in the Mexican session.
I'm drawing a blank right now.
The something manifesto.
Well, and Abraham Lincoln was in favor of it.
Well, basically, the reason he did this was not because he loved black people, but because he hated black people.
This guy, I'm trying to remember the name of that thing.
I'm drawing a blank right now.
But he thought that Southerners had done this terrible thing to the Union by introducing black people to America, and he did not want slavery to infect the rest of the United States.
He wanted it to stay localized in the South.
So, and also, the primary abolitionist movement up through the 1840s was to relocate American black slaves to Africa.
Now, that became a Ku Klux Klan idea in the 20th century, but that was the liberal position in America back in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.
So, you know, we're dealing that there's no way that any of this gets any type of play in a modern history course.
It's as if Abraham Lincoln and his team of rivals thought just like Martin Luther King and William Kunstler and every left-winger that emerged in the civil rights movement or on the left since 1960.
And as I said in Porgy and Best, it ain't necessarily so.
In fact, it obviously was not.
The Corwin Amendment shows that Lincoln just wanted to preserve the Union.
He wasn't the great emancipator.
He was the great maven of big government.
He wanted the United States to be a large, populous country with a lot of natural resources that could project itself onto the world stage.
He was kind of an early neocon in that regard.
And he didn't want half of the nation to leave, which is what the South proposed to do in the, by seceding from the Union.
Now, what were the real reasons?
We said, first of all, tariffs.
Secondly, and in particular, the Morrell Tariff, which was passed in the early days of Lincoln's administration, which basically raised the tariff rate on foreign manufactured goods coming in from 25% to 47%.
When this was passed, this is what drove the southern states over the edge.
They said, this guy, Lincoln, is just as bad as we thought he would be.
He's going to bankrupt all of us.
He's going to basically make commerce impossible for us.
We're going to have to basically cite, it's going to be like the joke IRS return that says, how much you make, turn it over.
That's what it was going to be like for the South if they had lived under the Morrell Tariff.
And the Morrell Tariff is what prompted the seven Confederate states that initially seceded to secede from the Union.
Those were the Gulf Coast states, starting with South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas.
Then Lincoln, in response to this, asked the state legislature of every state to muster 75,000 troops to enlist in the Federal Army, into the United States Army, to put down this rebellion.
And rather than raise troops to make war upon their neighbors, at that point, the last four states, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia, seceded from the Union.
Maryland and Missouri were poised to get out, but their legislatures were taken over by federal troops before they could actually ink the document.
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Keith Alexander taking on an impossible task, trying to break down succinctly in the platform of commercial talk radio the cause and effect of the war between the states of Lincoln's War, the war of northern aggression.
What about the job he's done in the last two segments of breaking it down, making the most of the time that he's got?
Hell of a job.
And it gives you a great jumping off point in doing your own research.
But I think he has painted a very clear and concise picture to this point.
Keith, I would ask you this.
We only have five minutes left on this, and then I got to give a little bit of a preview on what's coming up in our third hour as our focus shifts to Easter, Resurrection Day.
A quick final on why the war was fought.
I think you've done an excellent job of covering that thus far.
But more importantly, or equally importantly, why the South was justified in doing their duty and fighting that war rather than just accepting it, which is certainly what their descendants have done.
Well, they basically did not want to be under a tyrannical regime.
The original U.S. Revolution, the American Revolution from 1776 to 1781, was fought because of the battle cry, taxation without representation is tyranny.
The South realized that the federal governmental apparatus was under the permanent control of their political enemies who had no scruples whatsoever of using their numerical advantage to basically make the South finance the entire federal government for all of the states and territories of the United States.
The South said this isn't fair.
It's going to be a drag on our economy.
It's going to prevent us from prospering.
And we need a divorce.
But like most people that wanted a divorce, they would have preferred an uncontested divorce.
Now, it was Lincoln who decided that it was going to be war.
It was not the South.
The South basically declared independence and then sat back.
And Lincoln tried to provoke the South into attacking one of his coastal forts, either the one in Pensacola, Florida, or the one in Charleston, South Carolina, or otherwise start the fighting so that he would have an excuse to send in armed troops to quell the rebellion.
Well, Fort Sumter provided that rationale.
But this idea that you get even in movies like Gone with the Wind about southern fire eaters just itching to fight, well, there's always a bunch of young hotheads in any war that want to do that, but they were far in the minority, and they were certainly not the leadership of the Confederacy.
The Confederacy realized that they had a shortfall compared to the North in men and materiel.
And as a result, they were hoping that they could encourage some European power to come in and save the day for them, just as the French came in and saved the day for the American Revolution in the American Revolution between 1776 and 1781.
Now, in the prosecution of the war, it is a perfect example of nice guys finished last.
The South burned down one northern town during the entire war, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, I believe it was, by Jubilee Early, the Confederate general, to protest Sherman's march to the sea in Georgia, where he burned down not only innumerable towns, but growing crops.
He wantonly killed livestock.
He followed a scorched earth policy.
He stole property from the people, the hapless people who were in his path of his army.
In Mississippi alone, there were 43 towns that were burned down by Union troops.
One town in the entire North was burned down, and that was to protest the absolute wanton, unconditional warfare that was being visited upon the South by Lincoln's army, specifically by William Tecumseh Sherman and U.S. Grant.
U.S. Grants, they said his initials stood for unconditional surrender, Grant.
Well, they insisted upon unconditional surrender.
You had people like the Commandant of New Orleans, the Union commander of New Orleans, Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, who said that any Southern woman that showed disrespect to a Union soldier would be considered a common prostitute and was to be treated accordingly.
So basically what he did was he made it legal for Union troops to rape Southern women in New Orleans.
That's why he was called Benjamin the Beast Butler.
This type of warfare was unprecedented.
You hadn't seen anything like this between civilized nations in millennia in the West until the North revived it for their war against the South.
Now, the horrors of World War I and whatnot were basically of this and also the war, the wantonness of the slaughters of some of the Indians in the Indian wars and the plains and whatnot, all these generals like Custer and Sherman and whatnot, Sheridan earned and learned their procedures in the Civil War against Southern civilians.
And we'll talk more about this as Confederate History Month continues.
But ladies and gentlemen, how about a big round of applause for Keith Alexander?
Yes, that is why the South fought to fight a degenerate and savage enemy, a disgusting enemy.
You tell me America's righteous and pure shining city on the hill.
America is horrible.
And it has been horrible for a long, long time.
And our government has been evil and corrupt and wicked for a long, long time, all the way back to 1861 and even before that.
And their first victims were other Americans.
There you go.
God's people down here in the South.
And with that, a perfect segue from something horrible to something nothing more uplifting.
We're going to transition now into this third hour.
Confederate History Month will continue for the next two weeks on TPC.
We hope you enjoyed Keith's contributions tonight to that effort.
But now we're going to turn our focus to Easter.
From current events to Confederate History Month to Easter, we got to do it.
Easter, the Easter story.
To Resurrection Day.
That's right.
Resurrection Day.
That's exactly what it is.
And the story of the resurrection can be found in Matthew 28, 1 through 7.
Of course, we read from the King James Version because that's exactly the way God spoke it.
The 1611.
That's right.
The 1611 version.
As it began to dawn toward the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a great earthquake.
For the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it.
His countenance was like lightning, his garment white as snow.
And for fear of him, the keepers did shake and became as dead men.
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He is not here.
He is risen, as he said.
Come and see the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee.
There you shall see him.
Lo, I have told you.
And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and did run to bring his disciples' word.
Folks, that gives me chills just to read it.
There's something connected to our hearts.
Either the Confederacy was a Christian nation, we, their descendants, are Christian people here on this show.
You don't have to this show, but we are.
And I sing Dixie, the hair on my arms stand.
I read that passage, the hair on my arms stand.
This is who we are.
This is the fiber of our being, the marrow in our bones.
And what we're going to do this third hour.
We were kicking around different ideas on how to celebrate Easter on the show.
And ultimately, I decided that we are going to replay something that we did last year.
So the third hour is going to be a rebroadcast of a very special interview to me that I did with my personal pastor, the man who led me to the Lord.
I want you to listen to it.
Even if you've heard it before, I want you to listen to it again.
Because I am who I am today because of those Confederate ancestors, because of people in my life who molded and shaped me like my pastor.
And so he's going to be on with me in the next hour in a rebroadcast telling the Easter story.
I want you to listen to that conversation and know that without this man, I wouldn't probably be here today.
I wouldn't be here.
It's very personal to me and very special to me.
And if you've not heard it before, you'll hear it for the first time.
The message is just the Easter message.
It's just as timely now as it was last year.
It's not a message that dates or goes stale.
But if you have heard it before, please listen to it again.
Third hour is going to be a rebroadcast.
We'll be back with you live next week.
Keith, final word to you.
Okay, I finally recalled the name of that congressman who made the proviso.
It was not a manifesto.
It was a proviso.
It was the Wilmot Proviso.
And I believe the guy's name was David or Daniel Wilmot.
He was a member of the Free Soil Party.
He was one who wanted to add to the admission of the Mexican session to the United States a proviso that said that they could have no slavery.
And he did it because, as an abolitionist, he hated black people.
All right, Keith, thank you for remembering that.
Folks, have a blessed resurrection day tomorrow with your family.