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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Christians Leaders- SURE

I was trying to respond to post on presstv.com one of my favorite news sites. I am pretty much wary of news coming out of the US, and I rely or shall i say RELIED on presstv.com and RT.com for news. However i find that there are still many issues with most "news" sites, the most glaring to be a lack of research about things that have nothing to do with the writer. Here's a link to the article: http://presstv.com/usdetail/231580.html.

I try to never comment about things i know nothing about. I know plenty about the bible and "true Christianity", so I can freely write about that, and I am learning about the Muslim faith and Judaism. I know nothing about Buddhism, Taoists or the followers of the Mit (google it) but I am very interested in the 3 main religions of the Earth, and therefore, I do LOTS of research pertaining these religions,nearly daily. So I was much chagrined to read this article, that while it had some good points was totally lacking in THE BIG PICTURE. When the Christianity debate comes up, and talk of this "Jesus" character surfaces, it seems like the first thing to talk about is "Jesus was meek and kind and blah blah blah". Goodness me, if you only stop skipping scriptures and start reading ALL of them you will learn sweet Jesus wasn't so sweet. Or that his name wasn't even Jesus.

I submit to you my two failed attempts at writing on the PressTv site, because I am long winded my comments were over the limit of characters. I tried to break them down by changing to short words like "to" became "2" and "with" became "w/" but I still was too far over, so I decided to instead let the people who like to look up this sort of stuff or those like me when I first started my journey to TRUTH kind of stumbled upon articles of this sort.

I want to add before giving the two comments that i haven't written in FOREVER. Why, I got a busy life! But I have decided to start doing my part in spreading the TRUTH hoping that enough people will wake up in time. I am also writing a novel well and EPIC the likes of which have NEVER been written before NOR published. The book I hope to finish soon, it will be available hopefully for free download, I may even give snippets on this blog, and I will also sell it through an internet publishing site with links to Amazon. This book is going to be great for those who are into black and colored folk history (just cus you speak Spanish dont MAKE you Spanish, my slavery causes me to speak English, your slavery causes you to speak Spanish, time to stop the BS and BE who we are!) and it is based on some historical facts but is mostly a fictionalized accounting of THE HISTORY OF HEBREWS!!! It will be told from the perspective of ONE family going down from the fleeing from Jerusalem around 70AD (due to the destruction of the temple and the Roman conquerors), our time in Africa, to the middle passage, transatlantic slave trade, Civil Rights till now. Some info may not be 100% historically correct, due to the limited amount of credible resources due to certain time periods BUT most of it will be correct, I will even cite info that was directly or indirectly taken from other historical works and sources/publications. THIS is the book to end all books, and is going to be great reading.

SHALOM and read the comments below:

Comment 1
While this was a good article, it seems like the research STOPS just where it needs 2 START. 1st "Jesus" wasn't Jewish, there were no "Jewish" people in the bible. They were Hebrews/Israelites. He did not follow Judaism, which came about from the following of Talmudic doctrines. It is a book of Rabbinical doctrine & has very little 2 do w/the actual bible or Torah/Tanakh (sp). Also He wasn't all lovey dovey, He called his own disciples devils , gave no special treatment 2 his mother, and he actually went in2 the temple w/a little whip overturning tables and whipping animals & merchants alike. Finally He wasn't named "Jesus" at all. In Israel, the Messianic Jews worship/pray 2 Yeshua. There were no "J"'s/J sounds in the Hebrew language & in fact the 1611 KJV bible doesnt include J's (it refers to him as Iesus, if you pick up a strongs concordance or another bible ref, u will find there were many people in teh bible named Iesus). So the idea that these clearly educated politicians & leaders call themselves Christians is very telling. Its because THEY ARE NOT CHRISTIANS. They are straight up Luciferian Zionist pagans. They know how to pull the heart strings of the Americans & Euro ppl by claiming Christianity. I am a true Hebrew (the original Hebrews though the European powers of UK and US which is the same entity hate to admit it were Negroes, or black people and those of original black ancestry/heritage and this is easily identifiable by doing some REAL history research, one good book to read out of many BESIDES THE BIBLE with its constant references to skin color/visage as being black or dark or burnt and hair as being like wool-is African Presence in Early Europe google it, buy it read it), and I follow explicitly the teachings of Christ and the Torah. I am a woman who covers her head (these days all the time, but generally we only have to while praying, reading the bible, prophesying or entering the church). I eat no pork or shellfish, I follow the commandments and laws laid down in the Old Testament, as well as the teachings of Christ (thus my works like alms giving is held very high in my life). I dress modestly, and I DO NOT celebrate the pagan holidays like Christmas, Easter, etc. The politicians KNOW the stories behind Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc. They are Satanists. They would never expose the truth of what they REALLY believe and REALLY follow. I currently live in a muslim country, and it's interesting because my Muslim friends are confused and beleieve I am either "kind of" Jewish (hmmm ISH? What is ISH, you either ARE or you ARENT) or Muslim, because no Christians they know hold their God in such high esteem and show fear and respect and actual love. In fact one of my Muslim friends when we explained what we observe and our beliefs exclaimed "you are so close in your beliefs with ours its crazy!" Point blank, the leaders of the US and UK are NOT true Christians and they and their false beliefs lead the entire US and UK "Christians" (including Catholics) astray with their BS beliefs and observances. They are phony Luciferian Satanist frauds. They are being revealed everyday, hopefully enough people will wake up and realize these people are evil, turning something good into something false and laughable. I do want 2 make it clear that being "black" now or admitting ur "black" ancestry isn't enough 2 save u, u MUST follow the laws, statutes and commandments outlined in the bible IN ADDITION 2 Christ being ur saviour. Ur skin color is NOT enough 2 save u.

Comment 2
Those people are not Christians they are Luciferian Satanists. They masquerade as Christians to get the public's approval. It seems like theres a lot of talk about the so called Jesus, when his name wasn't even Jesus and THEY know this. Just do some more research, & PLEASE someone print an article on the inconsistencies w/true historical research (such as his real name, his true skin color because the idea that "it doesnt matter" doesnt mesh well with the fact that if you question the blue eyed long silky hair painting of Cesar Borgias, something wrong w/u, however THEY use that image for Christ so 2 them it DID matter), who the true Hebrews were & their current descendants, the true Message Of Christ, the basis of being "saved" being just saying a few words rather than actually being a good person, who follows the laws statutes and commandments in the bible LIKE CHRIST DID, etc etc etc. PLEASE, start exposing the evil of the Church, like rezashrzad spoke about the materialism of the church and the Prosperity preaching Pimps in the Pulpit, and the truth will start coming out. Christ came from humble means but he had a temper. Christ was righteous but he wasn't this sweet long haired hug everyone dude they play him out to be. Seek the truth and you will find it, because HE is the way the truth and the light!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Truth Revealed- Part 1: Sunday Worship

I was going to write this as a letter to my mom, if you didn't know I was raised in a strict Christian household. Due to this fact I spent most of my life identifying nearly exclusively as a Christian. This is part one:

Dear Mom:

If you are wondering why we haven't been going to church and why for whatever reason there's this belief that I suddenly don't believe in God (which isn't even 0% correct) I would like to explain why.

SUNDAY WORSHIP

The first reason is because I found out a few things about Sunday worship. I will link some videos for you so you see what I am speaking of. The videos usually have scriptural reference either right on screen or it's spoken so please watch and then go read.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjHpQXOEzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvNTynnzN-E

So that means any church that worships on Sundays is not following the word of God! That means that we have NEVER kept the Sabbath day holy. The same way you make sure not to kill or steal or commit adultery, is the same way you must keep the Sabbath holy. But in most countries Sunday is considered the Sabbath. Most businesses are closed or are on an abbreviated schedule. However it says:

Exodus 20:8-11

⁸ Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

⁹ For six days you shall labour and do all your work.

¹⁰ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.

¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Look at the calendar, Sunday is day #1, Saturday is day #7 or the last day of the week.

Sunday worship was created to worship the Sun god, thus Sun-day. In this country and many others, Sunday is the one day of th week that most businesses are closed down or operate on an abbreviated schedule. Also, as non-Catholics, we are subscribing to the "sabbath" day of Catholicism, which is not biblical (the worship and praying to of Saints and confessing to Popes and priests is satanic in it's origins). Note how many people who are heads of states and worldwide leaders and country representatives pay homage to the Pope, even if they are NOT Catholic. George Bush said it best in an interview, when asked what does he see when he looks in the face of the Pope (a mere man a mortal!!), to this he replied "God." That is very telling. The Bible states that we should have no other God's before Him. So to call a MAN God, is blasphemous on so many levels!

If someone is leading a church that worships on Sunday but KNOWS the Bible, how is that to be explained. Well I like to think of a little something called How to Interpret the Bible… Many churches and Theology colleges teach Bible interpretation as a subject. Each person can bend the words to work for the situation (see prosperity and tithes below) such as during slavery. You know the scripture:

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

This shows how the Word was used to make slavery seem okay There is a verse in the Bible that (paraphrased) there is to be no interpretation of the scriptures. Like you can't take the scriptures and put them in the way that will benefit what you are trying to accomplish. So when a preacher takes a scripture and matches it to his sermon- like prosperity preaching, it's really just him deciding how to twist the words to what he wants you to see and think. (I can't find the scripture now so if someone knows it feel free to add it in the comments section.)

So if the scripture says don’t interpret the Bible and make up your own meaning, then why do we do it? Because that’s what they are teaching us in the church. But it’s not biblical and if they are not teaching us the Bible what are they really teaching us?

Blacks are in fact the true jews of the bible video links...

http://youtu.be/GaWpdgCowxk

Please watch this video and look out for my upcoming posts on the truth of all people. Again, this is not a Pro-Black blog or post. I didn't even WANT to be black all my life, and didn't even like ADMITTING IT! I would lie and say I was black and I was proud! I just admitted it a few days ago that if I had anything to do with it, I would have been white. I grew up with all white people, I assimilated (or actually if you grow up with them you don't assimilate you just grow) and hated every bit of my blackness. But I didn't know better. The media portrays us as shiftless, lazy, savage, whores, scoundrels, worthless. Our history of slavery and civil rights and lack of knowledge in our heritage has always been a source of discomfort and shame in my life. But today I can say that I have openly cried for my people and for ALL people that we could be so deceived.

Please seek the truth for yourself. Click the link and watch all the parts in this series of videos!

Peace be unto you my brothers and sisters!

1877 Insurrection: Excerpt from THE AGE OF BETRAYAL: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900

http://yinsurgent.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/1877-insurrection-excerpt-from-the-age-of-betrayal-the-triumph-of-money-in-america-1865-1900/

The Post Gazette Editors were kind enough to publish this bit from Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty.

It’s worth checking out for the pictures, alone.

I wished I’d have copied this rather than the version on the ‘about this picture‘ page.

Maybe this’ll get the Yinsurrectionary Times its first ‘cease and desist’ order? Maybe including a link to but the book offers some protection?

WORKERS MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN FIGHTING OR EATING
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, “the largest strike anywhere in the world in the 19th century,” according to one historian, was the social earthquake of the Gilded Age, bursting post-Civil War illusions of American immunity to European-style class conflict. To keep afloat during the long depression of the 1870s, the railroads first engaged in wasting rate wars; then, to recoup their losses, colluded to cut wages to $1 a day, beginning July 1, 1877. The Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that $1 a day represented “absolute poverty.”

The strike reached Pittsburgh on the morning of Thursday, July 19, when an announcement from Pennsylvania Railroad Superintendent Robert Pitcairn was posted that said all eastbound trains would “henceforth” be doubleheaders. That is, the length of the trains would be doubled without increasing the size of the crew, costing jobs and endangering train crews.

Augustus Harris, a flagman, refused to go out on the first doubleheader. A brakeman joined him. Yardmen joined them. When a brakeman, following his supervisor’s orders, started to couple a car to an engine, the strikers threw coupling pins, injuring him and making him run for his life. Engineers were warned: Stay away from the trains.

“Hice, you have a perfect right to refuse to go out,” trainmaster David Garrett told Andrew Hice and a score of strikers, “but you have no right to interfere with others.”

“It is a question of blood or bread,” Mr. Hice came back, “and if I can go to the penitentiary I can get bread and water, and that is about all I can get now.”

After a crowd blocked the eastbound switch at the 28th Street crossing in what is now the Strip District, all traffic stopped. Superintendent Pitcairn departed for Philadelphia, leaving his chief clerk, David Watt, in charge. Mr. Watt applied to Mayor William McCarthy for help, but Mr. McCarthy had no will for that. Squeezing Pittsburgh for decades, the Pennsylvania Railroad had incurred the city’s enmity.

“From the first commencement of the strike,” the Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots found, “the strikers had the active sympathy of a large portion of the people of Pittsburgh.”

The mayor could spare no men; budget cuts had winnowed his day police force to 11 men. Mr. Watt could ask for volunteers among the laid-off policemen milling in City Hall awaiting their last paychecks. Ten came forward. Mr. Watt led them up Liberty Street toward the switch at the crossing.

Wading into the crowd he declared, “I’ll turn that switch,” and strode toward it. A striker stepped in front of him. Mr. Watt took the man by the coat, at which a fist “shot out” and struck Mr. Watt in the eye. The police pursued the puncher, the crowd neither resisting nor cooperating. Boys threw stones. Dispatcher Joseph McCabe turned the switch. A freight train pulled out of the yard, the last for three weeks.

THE PHILADELPHIANS INVADE PITTSBURGH
In charge at the Philadelphia headquarters of the Pennsylvania Railroad on July 19 was third vice president Alexander Cassatt, a well-born Philadelphian and older brother of the painter Mary Cassatt. Reports of the trainmen’s walkout reached Mr. Cassatt late in the afternoon. After telegraphing the Pittsburgh office to replace the strikers with “extra conductors and engineers,” he left for Cheswold, the neo-Gothic mansion on the Main Line in Haverford he had commissioned in 1872.

When most Americans used an outdoor privy during the day and a chamber pot at night and five out of six city dwellers still bathed with pail and sponge, Cheswold boasted seven bathrooms. Mr. Cassatt was having dinner with his wife and three children when the station master at Haverford arrived with news that a rough had blacked David Watt’s eye and strikers had stopped all traffic.

When the Trainmen’s Union representatives passed their list of demands to Superintendent Pitcairn in Philadelphia on Friday morning, he handed it to Mr. Cassatt, now in charge. Mr. Cassatt read it — the union mainly wanted the wage cut rescinded and the double-headers cancelled — and handed the list back. “Have no further talk with them,” he instructed Mr. Pitcairn. “They’ve asked for things we can’t grant them at all.” Knowing that Gov. John B. Hartranft, vacationing in Wyoming in a luxurious private car supplied by Mr. Cassatt’s railroad, had called out the National Guard, he felt no need to bargain.

By late afternoon, Gen. Alfred L. Pearson, the commander of the Pittsburgh-based 6th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard, had mustered only 130 men, a force too small, he told Mr. Cassatt, to disperse the crowd. A cannonade would do it — he had two artillery pieces — but at an unacceptable cost in lives. Mr. Cassatt said he was prepared to pay the price.

Gen. Pearson, a Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War, doubted that his regiment would fire on “their fellow townsmen.” Mr. Cassatt suggested that Gov. Hartranft’s Adj. Gen. James W. Latta “had a good regiment under arms” in Philadelphia; a special train could bring them to Pittsburgh overnight. They would shoot, if they had to. Gen. Pearson wired Gen. Latta that “to avert bloodshed, we should have not less than two thousand troops.”

In a decision a Pittsburgh paper branded “insane,” Gen. Latta called out the 1st Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard under Maj. Gen. Robert M. Brinton. Bad blood between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia extended back decades, to the founding of the Pennsylvania Railroad by “Philadelphia capitalists” and their campaign to keep competitors out of Pittsburgh. How Pittsburghers would react to Philadelphia militia marching through their streets to break a broadly supported strike against the hated Pennsylvania Railroad was foreseeable but not foreseen.

That evening the Philadelphia depot thronged with soldiers and their families. Of 1,200 troops in the division, Brinton’s summons had reached a little over 600. In cars bearing the marks of stonings by strikers in Harrisburg, Johnstown and Altoona, the Philadelphia militia pulled past 28th Street in Pittsburgh early Saturday afternoon, their long polished Springfield rifles sticking out the broken windows.

PITTSBURGH FIGHTS BACK AS BLOOD RUNS IN THE STREETS
The Philadelphians were “spoiling for a fight,” the Army Times later reported, boasting en route they would “clean up Pittsburgh.” They marched up the tracks toward the 28th Street crossing, two Gatling guns pulled bumpily along behind. From a parallel street “wild and famished looking women” hissed at them. Bobbing along the tops of the cars on the adjacent track, Alexander Cassatt’s tall white hat was visible.

As they gained the crossing, the Philadelphians saw they were marching into a tight spot. A steep hill ran up from the tracks on one side. Four coal cars wedged them in on the other, with “spectators” covering the coal. Spread out on the hill were lawyers and businessmen there out of curiosity, families with small children, trainmen, millmen, miners and the remnants of the Pittsburgh militia.

Ordered to occupy the crossing during the night, by midday some of the Pittsburgh militiamen had melted into the crowd; others stacked their arms and sat on the hill with their friends or families. The crowd blocking the tracks numbered “seven to eight thousand.” The Philadelphians, having split their force to guard facilities closer to the depot, were three hundred.

They deployed in a hollow square, facing the Gatlings at the thickest knot of people a few paces down the tracks. A detachment of the “Dark Blues” lowered their rifles and charged the crowd with their bayonets. Men grabbed at the bayonets and tried to pull the rifles away from the soldiers. One “retained his piece by using his bayonet, and my impression is he run the man through,” a militiaman recalled.

From the hill boys threw stones. From the coal cars came a barrage of coal. Mr. Pitcairn, in the center of the square, said coal “clouded the horizon.” A soldier “had the whole side of his face taken off by a brick.” Others collapsed from sunstroke. “Shoot, you sons of bitches, won’t you shoot!,” a voice taunted.

The crowd surged around the Dark Blues. At least three pistol shots, one from a boy on the hill, rang out. No one gave the order, but up and down the square the militiamen opened fire, at first in all directions, then at the hillside. A reporter for the Pittsburgh Post described the scene on the hill: “Women and children rushed frantically about, some seeking safety, others calling for friends and relatives. Strong men halted with fear, and trembling with excitement, rushed madly to and fro, tramping upon the killed and wounded as well as those who had dropped to Mother Earth to escape injury and death.”

Five minutes of shooting, two or three shots a second, had left 17 dead and 60 or 70 wounded. The casualties included at least one woman, a Pittsburgh militiaman, an old man and a four-year-old girl pulled from the line of fire by a lawyer who tourniqueted her shattered knee with his handkerchief. That night the doctors amputated her leg in vain.

THE CITY IS DEVASTATED AND THE BILL COMES DUE
“FIRST BLOOD: Seventeen Citizens Shot in Cold Blood by the Roughs of Philadelphia; The Lexington of the Labor Conflict at Hand” read the headline in the Sunday Pittsburgh Gazette.

Rather than stay in the crossing and be overrun by a crowd that swelled as the news of what they had done spread, the Philadelphians took refuge in the 26th Street roundhouse. They were fired on throughout the night by rifles and shotguns their attackers had stolen from a local gun shop. Toward morning rioters ran a burning coke car topped with petroleum into the buildings adjacent to the roundhouse. Its roof caught fire. At the thought of the Philadelphians burning alive the mob let out a “savage, prolonged yell of exultation.”

Soon men began gagging on the smoke. Before the roof fell in, Gen. Brinton ordered them to evacuate. These factory workers and clerks far from their Philadelphia homes then formed up, one Gatling gun in front, another in the rear, and at a little past 8 marched out of the yards.

The sight of the Gatlings panicked the crowd, which rushed for the alleys running off Liberty Street. As the troops passed, “pistols blazed at them out of doorways and windows, from behind corners, projecting signs, crates and boxes, from cellars and other places,” and even from a police station. Caring people took the wounded into their homes, and lied for them when gunmen, looking for soldiers to kill, rapped on the door. When their pursuers switched to rifles, the Philadelphians fired back, wounding a nonstriking railroad mechanic returning from work and a plasterer and killing a saloonkeeper standing in his own door.

Approaching the Allegheny Arsenal, a major arms depot for the U. S. Army, the Philadelphians were turned away. Afraid that if he harbored Gen. Brinton’s men the crowd would storm the arsenal and make off with its 36,000 rifles and muskets, its cannon and powder magazine, the commander accepted only the wounded. With his troops low on ammunition and without food or water for 24 hours, Gen. Brinton decided not to fight his way to the depot but to march the Philadelphians out of Pittsburgh via the high bridge over the Allegheny River to Sharpsburg, camping on the grounds of the local workhouse.

The crowd now ruled the city. “Vengeance means retaliation,” Barrington Moore, Jr. observed. “It also means a reassertion of human dignity or worth, after injury or damage.”

Saturday night and Sunday, a few outraged Pittsburghers reasserted their dignity against the Pennsylvania Railroad, burning 1,200 freight cars, 104 engines, 46 passenger cars and all 39 company buildings in Pittsburgh, including the Union Depot and hotel. According to Carroll Wright, the first U.S. commissioner of labor, “a great many old freight cars which must soon be replaced by new, were pushed into the fires by agents of the railroad company … and of course the loss was included in claims on the county of Allegheny.”

The tax-paying rioters would have to pay for the damage. The committee investigating the riot found that “the actual destruction was participated in by only 30 to 50 men.” Photographs of the train yards reveal a wilderness of twisted metal and fallen brick extending two miles, not so much resembling Lexington as Berlin circa 1945.

“No parallel in the history of the world upon the strength of what we saw,” Adj. Gen. Latta wired Gov. Hartranft. “A crowd setting fire to something feels irresistible; so long as the fire spreads, everyone will join in and everything hostile will be destroyed,” Elias Canetti wrote in “Crowds and Power.”

And so it was in Pittsburgh. “The strike is over,” a New York Times correspondent wrote on Sunday night, “for there is nothing here to strike against so far as the Pennsylvania Railroad is concerned.”

Politics and Public Service

In the months following the Election of 1876, but prior to the inauguration in March 1877, Republican and Democratic leaders secretly hammered out a compromise to resolve the election impasse and address other outstanding issues.

Under the terms of this agreement, the Democrats agreed to accept the Republican presidential electors (thus assuring that Rutherford B. Hayes would become the next president), provided the Republicans would agree to the following:

To withdraw federal soldiers from their remaining positions in the South
To enact federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South
To appoint Democrats to patronage positions in the South
To appoint a Democrat to the president’s cabinet.

Once the parties had agreed to these terms, the Electoral Commission performed its duty. The Hayes’ electors were selected and Hayes was named president two days before the inauguration.

Why did the Democrats so easily give up the presidency that they had probably legitimately won? In the end it was a matter of practicality. Despite months of inflammatory talk, few responsible people could contemplate going to war. A compromise was mandatory and the one achieved in 1877, if it had been honored, would have given the Democrats what they wanted. There was no guarantee that with Samuel J. Tilden as president the Democrats would have fared as well.

To the four million former slaves in the South, the Compromise of 1877 was the “Great Betrayal." Republican efforts to assure civil rights for the blacks were totally abandoned. The white population of the country was anxious to get on with making money. No serious move to restore the rights of black citizens would surface again until the 1950s.

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h396.html

Timeline of 1877 Presidential Election:

Timeline of 1877 Presidential Election:
http://millercenter.org/president/keyevents/hayes

Key Events in the Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

1877

March 5, 1877

Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, previously a Union soldier, as well as a representative and governor of Ohio, is publicly sworn in as the nineteenth President of the United States. He takes the oath privately on March 3rd. In the race against Democrat Samuel Tilden, Hayes secures only 48 percent of the popular vote and 164 electoral votes to Tilden's 184. However, voter fraud and unclear results are reported in several states. A controversial decision of a special electoral commission ultimately proclaims Hayes President, with some Democrats referring to Hayes as "Rutherfraud." In return for the presidency, the Republicans make various concessions, including the removal of federal troops from the South. These actions are labeled the "Compromise of 1877"; African-Americans refer to it as "The Great Betrayal."

March 20, 1877

At a cabinet meeting, Hayes agrees to send a commission to Louisiana to report on the conditions in the southern state. In reality, he plans to use the action to sanction his decision to allow Democrat Francis T. Nicholls to take over the states by removing federal aid from federally appointed governor Stephen B. Packard. Meanwhile, Hayes's cabinet includes staunch liberal Republican William Evarts as secretary of state and a former Confederate as postmaster general; the nomination of the latter appeases Southern Democrats as part of the Compromise of 1877.

April 10, 1877

Troops depart the statehouse in South Carolina following a meeting at the White House with Daniel H. Chamberlain and Wade Hampton; without support, Chamberlain gives in, and Hampton becomes governor.

April 24, 1877

As in South Carolina, Hayes officially withdraws soldiers from Louisiana. Governor Packard has no choice but to submit, declaring, "One by one, the Republican state governments of the South have been forced to succumb to force, fraud or policy." Hayes's withdrawal of troops from the South marks the end of Reconstruction. At the same time, Hayes will also oversee the appropriation of federal funds for internal improvements in the South.

June 1, 1877

With Mexican-Texas border incursions continuing, Hayes sends troops to patrol the nearly lawless Mexican border and cross it if necessary to pursue bandits. Mexican president Diaz protests and sends troops to the border as well. Ultimately, economic concerns motivate both parties to work towards a settlement.

June 22, 1877

Following John Jay's investigation of the New York Customhouse, Hayes issues an Executive Order that forbids the involvement of federal employees in political activities. The President takes such action in the hope that it will curtail corruption; the Executive Order stipulates that those in office can no longer be dismissed for political reasons. Congress rejects additional proposals. These events testify to Hayes's interest in civil service reform.

July 16, 1877

Following pay cuts, the first major interstate strike -- the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 -- begins on the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) line at Camden Junction, Maryland; additional strikes will follow, lasting a month. Lacking organization, the strikes frequently degenerate into mob activity. Hayes sends federal troops to protect mail and quell the riots that take place in numerous cities, angering many workers. The strike will lead to anti-Chinese attacks in San Francisco during the fall.

September 6, 1877

Hayes challenges the political power of New York Senator Roscoe Conkling when the President announces he will replace Collector of the Port of New York Chester A. Arthur, as well as naval officer Alonzo Cornell, during the reorganization of the New York Customhouse. Although Arthur has overseen improvement in the Customhouse, he also uses it to further Conkling's political interests. Incensed by Hayes's decision, Conkling, Hayes's opponent for the Republican presidential ticket in 1876, blocks Hayes's nomination of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., for the position.

September, 1877

Hayes goes on a tour of the South, pledging reconciliation and solidarity through a policy of pacification.

1878

January 1, 1878

Founded in 1869 by Uriah S. Stephens, a tailor in Philadelphia, the Knights of Labor is established as a national organization. It is the first labor union to attempt to organize all workers and hopes to establish a worker-owned factory system. With rapid growth in the 1880s, the Knight membership peaks in 1886 and then goes into rapid decline.

January 17, 1878

A U.S.-Samoan treaty is signed in Washington which gives the United States the right to establish a naval and coaling station at the port of Pago Pago; it also pledges American assistance to Samoa if a third country interferes with Samoan chiefs. The Senate ratifies the treaty on January 30.

February 28, 1878

Hayes vetoes the Bland-Allison Act, advocated by farmers and debtors, but Congress passes the measure over his veto. The act calls for the resumption of silver coinage at a rate between $2 and $4 million per month.

March 1, 1878

Hayes vetoes a bill which bans incoming vessels from carrying more than fifteen Chinese passengers. Hayes then works to negotiate changes to the Burlingame Treaty with China in order to set limits on Chinese immigration.

March 23, 1878

America recognizes the Diaz regime in Mexico in an effort to avoid greater conflict.

May, 1878

House Democrats begin an investigation of the controversial presidential election of 1876, much to the chagrin of Hayes, who fears that the investigation may be an attempt to replace him with Tilden.

November, 1878

Following congressional midterm elections, the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress for the first time since the Civil War. Consequently, Hayes will have little sway in Congress.

1879

January 1, 1879

Hayes allows the resumption of gold payments for Civil War greenbacks, paper money not backed by specie, silver, or gold. This is a continuation of the Specie Act begun under President Grant. During the Hayes administration, as the government's gold supply grows and the issuance of silver coins increases, the economy begins to recover. By the spring of 1879, the government has retired all Civil War bonds.

February 3, 1879

After a political struggle between Hayes and Senator Conkling, the Senate approves Hayes's appointments for the New York Customhouse. Although these fail to end inefficiency in the civil service system, the country largely supports Hayes's commitment to reform.

April 29, 1879

Congress passes the Army Appropriations Bill. The law includes a "rider" which forbids the use of federal troops at polls, which many regard as an attempt to nullify black voting rights. Hayes vetoes the bill, but the House sustains the veto. Hayes again vetoes the rebuffed version, and many Republicans feel the veto secures the election of 1880.

May 29, 1879

Hayes vetoes a version of the appropriations bill for the third time; a later bill excludes "certain judicial expenses" forbidding the army to "police the polls"; Hayes will agree to this language.

June, 1879

The appropriations designated by Democrats exclude implementation of election law funds; Hayes vetoes the bill.

1880

March 8, 1880

In a speech to Congress, Hayes continues to support a Central American canal to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Following the trip to America by French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps -- the builder of the Suez Canal in Egypt -- Hayes states that "the policy of this country is a canal under American control." A canal running through Panama will be completed in 1914.

June 7, 1880

The Republican National Convention meets in Chicago. Hayes had already pledged, in 1876, not to run for a second term; by the time the convention begins, the party has split into two factions: James G. Blaine's "Half-breeds" and Roscoe Conkling's "Stalwarts." The Stalwarts nominate Ulysses S. Grant against the nominations of Blaine and John Sherman. After 36 ballots, Blaine unexpectedly lends his support to James A. Garfield, the Speaker of the House, giving Garfield the presidential nomination. In order to maintain party unity, Chester A. Arthur, a Stalwart, is nominated for vice president.

June 24, 1880

The Democratic National Convention meets in Ohio and nominates Winfield S. Hancock, a Union commander, for President and William H. English for vice president.

November 2, 1880

James A. Garfield is elected President by a narrow popular margin (with only 48.5 percent) but with a comfortable majority of electoral votes, 214-155.

November 17, 1880

The United States and China sign a treaty which repeals a section of the 1868 Burlingame treaty. The move gives the United States the power to "regulate, limit or suspend" but not completely prohibit Chinese immigration. The treaty also includes a clause banning the opium trade. In return, the United States grants China trading privileges.

1881

March 4, 1881

Republican James A. Garfield is sworn in as the twentieth President of the United States.

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The Compromise of 1877

March 8, 2011 No Comments

“…The compromise of 1877 is arguably the most devastating single event in the history of Blacks in America…”

- Min. Louis Farrakhan -

This Harper's Weekly cartoon from 1877 indicates the tension surrounding the presidential race between Hayes & Tilden. (Source: HarpWeek.com)

Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke the above words, Feb. 27, in Rosemont, Illinois at the conclusion of the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day convention. His address was nearly 4 hours long but the below excerpt contains his full comments made about the far-reaching impact of this not-often referenced or remembered part of American history.

I took the time to transcribe this portion of the Minister’s statements for myself because this Compromise is not something I have spent a lot, or any time studying. Here are his words about it:

…I want to show you how we have been tricked. There was a great compromise of 1877. It’s called “The Great Betrayal of the Negro.” In 1865, the 13th amendment legally abolished slavery but just 12 years later, in 1877, a decision was taken by the leaders of America that would have profound consequences for the Black man & woman long, long into the future. The Compromise of 1877 is arguably the most devastating single event in the history of Blacks in America but these leaders, and we today in Black History Month know almost nothing about that compromise. May I share it with you?

“The presidential election of 1876 ended in a deadlock between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, who represented Northern sentiment & interests and the Democrat Samuel Tilden, who represented the former slaveholders of the South. The 2 sides fought over the results for weeks & there were even threats of another Civil War and as the political leaders wrangled over who was gonna be president, the bankers – the BANKers – and the industrialists, the so-called robber barons, saw a way to exploit this political discord for their own financial purposes. The American Bankers Association met on Jan the 26th, 1877 and then again on Feb 7 to strategize in the midst of the controversy. The emancipation of the Black man had undermined the very source of their fortunes which was the forced, plantation slave labor of the African. They had always sought to build up the industrial infrastructure of the south: lay down railroads, build roads and shipping ports all in order to supply more cotton for the world markets, not less. But they saw in this political standoff a way to affect their plan to radically change the course of the nation in their direction.

“If Tilden won, they thought, he would be facing a hostile Republican congress, so they believed their plans would be better received under a Hayes administration. Southern politicians, whose votes would be needed for these major projects, could be convinced to go along with the promise of an enormous capital investment and a return to the old racial order. That’s when a group of politicians from both parties secretly convened at the Wormley Hotel in Washington, D.C. to attempt to resolve the conflict & save the Union from political disaster and possibly a 2nd Civil War. After days of negotiations, they finally agreed that if Rutherford B. Hayes were awarded the presidency, listen, he would remove the federal troops in the South who were protecting Black ex-slaves and the former southern slave holding class would be returned to power where they could establish new forms of slavery free from federal control.

“The agreement, in effect, put the bankers and industrialists in control of the southern economy and it forced Blacks back into the cotton fields to finance it all. After 12 years of emancipation, Blacks would be returned to virtual slavery, denied civil rights and assigned to permanent political, social & economic inferiority. Jim Crow laws took immediate effect and Ku Klux Klan terrorism exploded: lynchings, rapes, mass murders against America’s Black so-called citizens escalated. Black property was stolen , and let me tell you, after the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people, ex-slaves built over 60 towns that they ran, they voted in blocs & put their own people in positions of power but with this Compromise, all their gains were taken away and that decision in that Wormley Hotel would, in effect, nullify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. There was a Jewish congressman from Louisiana, William Levy, representing Jewish railroad and cotton investors like the Lehmans, Seligmans, Belmontes and Kempners, they left that Wormley Hotel meeting and from the floor of the United States congress, Mr. Levy gave an impassioned speech that convinced those lawmakers that this wicked agreement, that scholars called the Great Betrayal of the Negro people, was indeed the best policy for the United States of America. The most profound part of this, however, is that on the same day that White America decided on the complete destruction of the Black people, Allah decided that the Saviour to the Black man would be born and both events, the most significant in the history of Black America happened on February 26, 1877 [Date of Master Fard Muhammad's birth]. Now, this is all detailed in our book, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews…..”

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Excerpt:

“With the departure of the federal troops, Democrats quickly won control in all of the southern states. Instead of continuing with the Reconstruction efforts to improve civil rights for black freed slaves, the South put an end to many of those advances and brought about an era of poverty and segregation for blacks in the region that would persist for nearly a century. For this reason, blacks often referred to the Compromise of 1877 as the Great Betrayal.”

The Betrayal of the Negro

From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson

Rayford W. Logan (Author)

March 1997
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ISBN 9780306807589
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