On this day in 1835, US committed rape. In New Echota, Georgia, officials of the United States government and representatives of a (mestizo) minority of Cherokee slavers, the Treaty Party, agreed the rest of the Nation could go to Hell. The treaty established terms under which the entire Cherokee Nation should be robbed its territory in the southeast and forced to move west to the Indian Territory. Although the treaty was not approved by the Cherokee National Council nor signed by Principal Chief John Ross, it was amended and ratified by the U.S. Senate in March 1836, and became the illegal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears. The terms about support for the migration were not kept, resulting in a death march. Wiki whitewashes all this, repeatedly using terms such as cede and agreed and legal when Marshall, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court declared the entire process unconstitutional, the first dictator of US, whom I mistook the much nicer Andrew Johnson for, said, Chief Marshall has made his decision. Let Chief Marshall enforce it! I have tried for years to estimate how long it takes for treason to become state policy, and how many years can pass after a coup before it can simply be said, Lets move on! The answer to the first question is that most apparently become reason of state immediately, or, at best, when the NEXT coup establishes the previous as the former regime whose legitimacy is co-opted. The second question was harder to answer, because I had no example till now. No one ever came so close to admitting any action of US needed to be apologized for as when Obama ALMOST said, Mistakes were made! before segueing to a simple, Lets move on! They are cracking! Now, IF, as was proposed in alternate Presidents, the Whigs had nominated Davy Crockett against Andrew Jackson instead of Henry Clay in 1832, and managed to defeat Jackson, in part due to his promise (appealing to Yankees who wept over the Noble Red Man, and SOME Westerners) to give citizenship to the Cherokees, and Statehood to Sequoyah, in part due to his compensating pledge to the mountain folk of Appalachia to make Appalachia a free state (with a bid for Pennsylvania support by calling it Franklin), in part due to a promise to try to negotiate the acquisition of Texas, but mostly due to Jackson and Calhoun patching up their differences due to their mutual hatred of Crockett and Clay, and van Buren going to London as ambassador, instead of replacing Calhoun on the ticket Crockett and Clay accomplish their goals, with an added wrinkle that the free womb principle is accepted in both the new states of Franklin and Sequoyah, and even the new state of North Florida, as well as being adopted by the border states. When Texas (north of the Texan Colorado) is acquired (Crockett sent Clay to Mexico City to bribe Santa Anna, not Sam Houston to Texas to free the Ukraine, aka Border), the dejure conversion of slavery to 99 year indentures is accepted with the free womb, indented until 19, provisio. Crockett serves until 1845, when Clay finally gets the office. And I just got to get totally frustrated with a reader that has all sorts of crap I hate on it, courtesy of a programmer, so, Ill leave Clay at the fulfillment of his ambitions, and let the Mormons and Mexico fend for themselves. As for Clay, I am pretty sure that, having gone that far he get a second term, so the Gold Rush would happen on his watch, but I am not sure he would get a third. And now Hollywood comes to my rescue, and Antonio Banderas, Zorro, holds off the Yanquis long enough for Santa Anna, called out of retirement to defeat President Freemonts Republic of California. Upon the discovery of gold, the three of them switch tactics and rule as a triumvirate under the Bear Flag. So yes, what with another thing, what with another thing, he does get a third term in fifty three, defeating the slave party ticket of Joe Smith and his Southern convert, Zach Taylor. His death, and that of Joe Smith and Taylor as well, in the attempted Mormon Coup, fortunately left Winfield Scott, the new president to deal with the Mormon generals Jeff Davis and Brigham Young. He fixed em, he sicced Bobby Lee on em. It is to be noted that the valiant Cherokee, which was well known to be largely black, won the civilized coloreds a degree of genuine acceptance unknown in US history, while the Mormon war discredited the admixture if religion and politics, introducing an almost European strain of anti-clericalism into these truncated states. California also did quite well on its own.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:43:32 +0000
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