You’re assuming that there is more white supremacy leanings in the Republican party in 2019 than there was in 1850? I would have assumed the opposite and by a huge margin. He loved Lincoln and he was a guy saying that the physical differences between whites and negro would be destined to separate them.
And voter suppression? I don’t think that he’d abandon the party that actually gave African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the ability to vote in the first place. 13th amendment was passed with 2 aye votes from the Dem party and the 14th and 15th amendments were passed with zero support at all. My point here is that there was a tremendous amount of goodwill that was built up in his lifetime with the party.
“I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.”
“Gentleman, I am a republican, a radical republican, a Black republican, a republican dyed in the wool, and for one I want the republican party to live as long as I do… It is the party of law and order, of liberty and progress, of honor and honesty, as against disloyalty, moral stagnation, dishonest voting, and repudiation.”
“It is not true that the Republican party has not endeavored to protect the negro in his right to vote. The whole moral power of the party has been, from first to last, on the side of justice to the negro; and it has only been baffled, in its efforts to protect the negro in his vote, by the Democratic party.”
“The Republican party is not perfect; it is cautious even to the point of timidity; but it is the best friend we have.”
“I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.”
“There is no race problem before the country, but only a political one, the question whether a Republican has any right to exist south of Mason and Dixon’s line.”
This guy seemed like a real die hard with deeply thought out positions… not a swing voter. He was also pretty pissed at the time that jobs that could have gone to American blacks were being taken by a constant flood of new immigrants. So, he had a similar view to what the Trump base voter currently has.
