Compromise

 

"God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. If, sir, we have reached that hour in the progress of our institutions, it is past the age to which the Union should have lived. If we have got to the point when it is treason to the United States to protect the rights and interests of our constituents, I ask why should they longer be represented here? Why longer remain a part of the Union? 

If there is a dominant party in this Union which can deny to us equality, and the rights we derive through the Constitution; if we are no longer the freemen our fathers left us; if we are to be crushed by the power of an unrestrained majority, this is not the Union for which the blood of the Revolution was shed; this is not the Union I was taught from my cradle to revere; this is not the Union in the service of which a large portion of my life has been passed; this is not the Union for which our fathers pledged their property, their lives, and sacred honor. 

No, sir, this would be a central Government, raised on the destruction of all the principles of the Constitution, and the first, the highest obligation of every man who has sworn to support that Constitution would be resistance to such usurpation. This is my position."

Jefferson Davis ~ In the Senate of the United States, June 27, 1850, on the  CompromiseBill ~ Congressional Globe, p. 995-6 

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Comment by JEFFREY HARDIN on Are we a Constitutional Republic, or a Democracy?

This is what happens when we allow revisionist to fabricate historical accounts without correcting them.

This also happens when you allow a small fraction of citizens to reshape history, and demand the destruction of American Historical icons, symbols regardless of the Heritage or Traditional value it has for others while they themselves elevate their own hatred through their dark history as cause for reason.

Its further propagated by allowing these minority groups to use a small fraction of people as an excuse to create a victimhood status that allows them to certain privileges over the majority of their fellow Natives.

This is further inflamed by Politically correct Whites whose lives are so empty that they need validation, a reason to find their self worth in causes that are almost always based on fabricated information or misinformation.

The results of these protests have time and again proven to be even more destructive and harmful than the one they claim to champion against.

What this will lead to is the further destruction of America, Her Traditions, and rich Heritage and the very Patriotic Americans who allowed this will soon find themselves wondering why their Heritage is also coming under attack as well.

When you bow to these types of intimidation, they escalate not deflate.

And when you enable, encourage and support those actions against fellow Americans, you will as a fact find yourself alone with no one to Champion your cause.

Old Glory Is Next, and the traditions she espouses will come under attack, its just a matter of time and that time is rapidly approaching, and I will not say one damn word to defend Her, as She did not come to our defense.

Our Freedoms should never be compromised, as they were here in South Carolina.