Grand Old Partisan

Grand Old Partisan salutes Louis Gottschalk, born in Germany, January 1st 1836. After immigrating with his parents, he studied law and settled at St. Louis. Outbreak of civil war, this patriot enlisted as captain with the 5th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Gottshalk was elected city attorney, next city councilman, then state senate president. Eight months in 1872, the Lieutenant Governor having died and the Governor away campaigning for the vice presidency, he served as Acting Governor. He later won election to the bench. President Benjamin Harrison named him Consul at Stuttgart. Back to Basics for the Republican Party  is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see  www.grandoldpartisan.com .  Here is a  YouTube Video  about this article. Here is a  TikTok Video  abo...

Grand Old Partisan celebrates the Republican Party's Emancipation Proclamation. It went into effect on January 1st 1863. President Abraham Lincoln observed: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper. If my name goes into history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it." While the Republicans rejoiced, Democrat politicians and newspapers denounced Lincoln for freeing slaves. Demonstrating their depravity, New York's Governor, Horatio Seymour, later the 1868 Democrat presidential nominee, denounced the Emancipation Proclamation as "a proposal for the butchery of women and children." The Louisville Daily Democrat called it "an outrage of all constitutional law, all human justice, all Christian feeling." Acting on authority granted by the GOP-controlled 37th Congress to seize rebel 'property,' President Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation two months before, ...