Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Samuel Eliot Morison’s “The Oxford History of the American People,” there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.
“An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.”
Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War — Andrew Jackson.
Slashed by a British officer in the Revolution, and a POW at 14, the orphaned Jackson went west, rose to head up the Tennessee militia, crushed an Indian uprising at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, in the War of 1812, then was ordered to New Orleans to defend the threatened city.
In one of the greatest victories in American history, memorialized in song, Jackson routed a British army and aborted a British scheme to seize New Orleans, close the Mississippi, and split the Union.
In 1818, ordered to clean out renegade Indians rampaging in Georgia, Jackson stormed into Florida, seized and hanged two British agitators, put the Spanish governor on a boat to Cuba, and claimed Florida for the USA.
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams closed the deal. Florida was ours, and Jacksonville is among its great cities.
Though he ran first in popular and electoral votes in 1824, Jackson was denied the presidency by the “corrupt bargain” of Adams and Henry Clay, who got secretary of state.
Jackson came back to win the presidency in 1828, recognized the Texas republic of his old subaltern Sam Houston, who had torn it from Mexico, and saw his vice president elected after his two terms.
He ended his life at his beloved Hermitage, pushing for the annexation of Texas and nomination of “dark horse” James K. Polk, who would seize the Southwest and California from Mexico and almost double the size of the Union.
Was Jackson responsible for the Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears”?
Yes. And Harry Truman did Hiroshima, and Winston Churchill did Dresden.
Great men are rarely good men, and Jackson was a Scots-Irish duelist, Indian fighter and slave owner. But then, Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were slave owners before him.
To remove his portrait from the front of the $20 bill, and replace it with Tubman’s, is affirmative action that approaches the absurd.
Whatever one’s admiration for Tubman and her cause, she is not the figure in history Jackson was.
Indeed, if the fight against slavery is the greatest cause in our history, why not honor John Brown, hanged for his raid on Harper’s Ferry to start a revolution to free the slaves, after he butchered slave owners in “Bleeding Kansas”? John Brown was the real deal.
But replacing Jackson with Tubman is not the only change coming.
The back of the $5 bill will soon feature Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, and opera singer Marian Anderson, who performed at the Lincoln Memorial after being kept out of segregated Constitution Hall in 1939.
That act of race discrimination came during the second term of FDR, Eleanor’s husband and the liberal icon who named Klansman Hugo Black to the Supreme Court and put 110,000 Japanese into concentration camps.
And, lest we forget, while Abraham Lincoln remains on the front of the $5 bill, the war he launched cost 620,000 dead, and his beliefs in white supremacy and racial separatism were closer to those of David Duke than Dr. King.
Alexander Hamilton, the architect of the American economy, will stay on the $10 bill, due in part to the intervention of hip-hop artists from the popular musical, “Hamilton,” in New York.
But Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth, who fought for women’s suffrage, will be put on the back of the $10. While Anthony and Stanton appear in Morison’s history, Sojourner Truth does not.
Added up, while dishonoring Andrew Jackson, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is putting on the U.S. currency six women — three white, three African-American — and King.
No Catholics, no conservatives, no Hispanics, no white males were apparently even considered.
This is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency to make Obama’s constituents happy at the expense of America’s greatest heroes and historic truth. Leftist role models for American kids now take precedence over the history of our Republic in those we honor.
While King already has a holiday and monument in D.C., were the achievements of any of these six women remotely comparable to what the six men honored on our currency — Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jackson, President Grant and Ben Franklin — achieved?
Whatever may be said for Eleanor Roosevelt, compared to her husband, she is an inconsequential figure in American history.
In the dystopian novel, “1984,” Winston Smith labors in the Ministry of Truth, dropping down the “memory hole” stories that must be rewritten to re-indoctrinate the party and proles in the new history, as determined by Big Brother. Jack Lew would have fit right in there.
Some are outraged but I look at it this way:
The us dollar is basically toilet paper nowadays, these figures are more appropriate to adorn flFRNs anyway…
As capriciously and hatefully as this crap has been dumped upon the republic, all of it can be gone – utterly, contemptuously, dismissively – by the middle of January 2017.
Trump 2016, and let the nullification of Obozo et alia begin the scouring of our shire.
Hmmm
Jackson was not removed from the bill for anything noble. He was removed because he is a constant reminder to the owners of the Federal Reserve (ruling elite) that the President hated private central banks and the bankers that owned them. Furthermore, he wasn’t intimidated by them, and the wasn’t afraid to fight them. And perhaps worst of all, Jackson was not shy about publicly voicing the dangers and threats to the Republic. And he never hesitated to point out the inevitable corruption that follows whenever private banks control government financing. You know, like the totally corrupt Federal Reserve we have today. A private banking cartel which is controlled in large part by foreign interests. A cartel which who’s chair and vice chair are dual citizen israelis. In fact, the vice chair literally had to take a plane from Israel to take the job. No conflicts of interest in any of this right.
On the other hand, the man on the $10 bill just happened to be an outspoken advocate of private banks controlling the treasury. I am sure however that keeping Hamilton and dumping Jackson is entirely coincidental to these facts………..After all the Federal Reserve has managed to take the strongest currency in the world and devalue it to about 1.5 cents on the dollar in just 100 years. The truth is if the “FED” wants to “honor” someone then Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild should be on the bill. After all he is one of the principle founding fathers of the FED and his family maintains signifcant control to this today.
The Fed and the USG don’t need to force everyone to go to a cashless society…
Just put shit pictures on them of people nobody fucking cares about – or worse, actually hate – and folks will stop using cash on their own.
Or, we could all start using gift cards…
It is an adequate representation of what we have become.
Pablum for the run-of-the-mill democrat (black) voter. Breed ’em young, get ’em on public assistance, and keep ’em stupid.
I just want to know why they chose the inventor of pancakes and pancake syrup for the double sawbuck.
Just further divisiveness in our nation.
Something the Democrats have been quite successful at.
Something they think they can control to their advantage over the long run, but in reality something that is going to sweep them -and probably the rest of the country and maybe the rest of Western civilization- down the anus of history soon as it reaches its natural fruition.
A house divided against itself cannot stand, nor can a nation or civilization.
Billy–I was thinking along the same lines. If they make the thinking people so disgusted with the PC fed notes. maybe we won’t complain as much when we go cashless ( but that is probably giving these fanatics a little too much credit for forethought).
I also thought that this may be Obama’s way of eventually succoring his ego. I’m sure by setting this precedent now, he probably hopes to have his image posted on the $1 bill in lieu of Washington or the $100 instead of Franklin…..
Why not put Tubman’s portrait in front of baby organ harvesting Planned Parenthood/EBT cards to drive the message home?
the correct term is “negative reaction” , not “affirmative action”.
Trump should not only oppose this BS(which he has), but also declare that said BS is dead-in-the-water in Jan 2017.
Just more in your face antics by the goobermint. They are trying to ratchet this shit up to get a revolution started and they will succeed. They never succeed at anything but war and destruction.
Start marking all the 20’s with an ‘X’ entered on the face with a medium point pen, permanent ink, coler = black.
We are becoming Zimbabwe. Our money might as well look like it.
It is absurd, I agree, this changing of faces on the currency.
Also, it is funny, and, ditto, Kokoda!! We can approximate
our middle school rebellions.
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Andrew Jackson should be recognized for his courageous war against the establishment of a central bank of the United States but unfortunately the banksters were successful in forming such a bank in the early part of the 20th century. When the Federal Reserve was formed in 1913 in violation of the US Constitution, twenty dollars could buy one ounce of gold. Today, after a century of counterfeiting and debasement of the US dollar, you would need $1250, even with massive price suppression by banksters with paper gold on the future’s markets, to purchase one ounce of gold. In other words, it now takes 62.5 times more dollars to purchase an ounce of gold as it did in 1913. Or put another way, the purchasing power of the US dollar has been reduced by about 98.6% over the last 100 years. The next question one needs to ask is what happened to all the wealth in savings, investments, insurance and pensions that was destroyed by currency debasement by the Federal Reserve? The answer is this wealth was stolen from ordinary workers, savers and investors by an international cabal of banksters based in New York and London who established and own the Federal Reserve. Many people think that the Federal Reserve is a government institution but despite the deceitful name, it is about as federal as Federal Express and is in fact a mechanism of plunder and theft of the American people. If justice was rendered, Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen, all the governors of the Federal Reserve, and the heads of crooked banks such as Goldman Sachs, would be indicted for fraud and theft, their assets seized, and when found guilty hung for high treason. Then the Federal Reserve would be demolished, fractional-reserve banks and banking ended, the money returned to the people, and the monetary system returned to the gold standard to preserve the wealth and purchasing power of honest workers. Then an agency would be struck with a very specific mandate which is to scour the Earth to bring all the bankers, financial investment crooks (think Hedge Funds), HFT traders, and other criminals (think politicians such as the Clinton and Bush crime families) to justice, recover stolen wealth stashed around the globe, and restore this wealth to its rightful owners. America would be great again, banking would be honest again, the dollar would be gold-backed again, and the jails would be full to the brim with the architects and practitioners of the most evil monetary, financial and banking system in the history of the world.
I read somewhere recently that Jackson’s greatest regret, he said, was that he didn’t kill Henry Clay.
I suppose he had the right idea about some things, like opposing the banksters and wanting to shoot Henry Clay, but he ordered the dispossession of my family and split them up between those who went on the long march and those who stayed behind under the protection of Col Thomas and some others in NC.
Damn. That was a long run-on sentence. I must be getting old. I can’t really work up much of a feeling about whose picture is on the $20 bill. I’d rather have a Morgan or Peace dollar than a couple of $20 bills anyway.
Nigger lives matter . LOL
Ed says: Damn. That was a long run-on sentence.
Ed, the founding fathers didn’t give a shit about run-on sentences. Try reading Washington’s convoluted writing one day. And here you were thinking Faulkner needed two books for one sentence. Periods are some sort of wimmens equality BS.
Much ado about nothing. Just another mile on the road to insanity. Up here getting a woman on our currency is all the rage as well. Odd considering the queen is on much of it (and always has been) and unless something has changed I am assuming she still has a vagina.
” And here you were thinking Faulkner needed two books for one sentence. ”
ha! Three books, sometimes. Well, I’ll never be no Faulkner as long as I feel bad about subjecting the peebles to run-on sentences.
True about periods. That’s a wimmen’s thang for sure. It’s all them commas before the period that makes me feel bad. ahaha
I’m all for putting negroes on money. I just can’t get enough exposure to niggers in the normal course of my day, so I will appreciate looking at niggers when I buy more 7.62 MM ammo.
It’s certainly not enough to see niggers in every TV show, every commercial, every movie, every highway sign, and everywhere I go to shop in every ad and every poster in every store.
On the flip side, It’ll be fun reading the racist comments people will write on all that money.
Jackson was an accomplished, determined and capable man – an Evil White Patriarchal Exclusionist Racist oppressor, and worthy of dishonor. It’s just like the Progressive distaste for Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the other historical figures they currently dislike.
We will remember Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the mayors of Memphis and Atlanta and various others who dishonor those whom their direst enemies in war honored – Grant respected Lee, and the surrender at Appomattox was conducted decently, in order to quiet the ghosts of a horrible war and try to rebuild a shattered union. Modern revisionist liberals will be remembered as one of the causes of the second American revolution – they just couldn’t leave the dead in peace, and as a result they will know no peace.
May our children remember their oppression and denigrate their names as fools, liars and idiots who put ideology above fact and history.
The new math: If John got paid 5 Niggers, 1 Tranny and 3 Lesbos, how much should he give to help support Rayray’s kids with his GF Feniqua?
kokoda says: Start marking all the 20’s with an ‘X’ entered on the face with a medium point pen, permanent ink, coler = black.
http://www.stampstampede.org/pages/legal
Personally, in order to be perfectly Politically Correct one should take a high rez color (or course) photograph of a lady’s private parts that would include a special HD image of the clitoris. I’d say
This part of the female anatomy immediately recognized by a minimum of (say 50%) percent of the male sex and is admired by all and plenty of the opposite sex. Why even I am an invariable admirer of it myself. I’m trying to take the simpled minded ones and controlt for them1
Further more, if this idiotic plans come to fruit, all change from a purchase I receive will be in the form of OLE FASHIONED $10.00 BILLS .
I expect the new bill will be be welcomed with all the glee afforded the Susan B. Anthony Dollar.
MA
Was he on the twenty as bankster taxidermy?
I mean eventually they won, might want to put his face out there trophy like.
Who gives a fuck who they put on it.This massive change up is timely, no? Might want to create some disassociations with the paper, for a variety of reasons. This move has Sacajawea written all over it, pointless, throw the SJW’s a bone before the lights go out.
The Harriet Tubman bills are being printed in order to make sure that the bills show up in the correct hands when reparations are paid….JK .
Billy – The corn guy was a crack up, solid corn out the tail pipe LOL.
They gave Obammy a Nobel prize for doing squat other than becoming a ‘first black’, they could put Hillary on a dollar bill makeover for becoming a ‘first twat.’
King James Bible
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
And let the ditch be very deep. Can I get an Amen !
EC- Do you Think HF will come back? I think Flash may come back someday………I feel like when my brother left for the Navy and I didn’t see him for two years. That was in the mid fifties.
Lysander- Did I see you with a case of sharpies? LOL 🙂
Bea, HF is still around. I saw a post where he said the moon is hollow. He stays above the fray and isn’t going to leave because we have poor table manners. Besides, he came back at us quite strong, called us yella or uncouth or something along that line.
flash will be back. I think somebody doppled him recently so he has to come back and defend himself.
Sometimes The Burning Platform burns.