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Gag Rule

In order to really comprehend the true nature of the past one has to look at it through different eyes. Slavery was not a bunch of Negros from Africa in chains being whipped with bull whips. Nope. It was first pre-colonial “White people, then “Negro Indians.” Then later on a sprinkle of “Africans,” and it was called, “CONTRACT INDENTURE.” What does that mean? It means the “slave” was actually an “employee” under contract to labor for a certain term in exchange for pay, or “freedom” and if necessary, room, board, food and clothing. That contract was an “investment instrument.” What does that mean? It means that contract was mortgaged, “securitized,” hypothicated, and bonds were created based upon contract term and value. This is where the “bond market” [bondage] came from. This is one of the many dirty secrets of so called, “slavery” and this revenue stream being “capitalized and controlled” is what contributed greatly to the Southern overthrow, “the coup” called the “Civil War.”

The revenue stream from “slavery” was so important that the Senate and Congress did everything they could to keep it flowing. They passed many acts and rules in support of the revenue stream, and one such rule was the Gag Rule.

“In United States history, the gag rule was a series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844. They played a key role in rousing support for ending slavery. Congress regularly received petitions asking for various types of relief or action. Before the gag rules, House rules required that the first thirty days of each session of Congress be devoted to the reading of petitions from constituents. Each petition was read aloud, printed, and assigned to an appropriate committee, which could choose to address or ignore it. After those thirty days, petitions were read in the House every other Monday.”

“This procedure became unworkable in 1835, when, at the instigation of the new American Anti-Slavery Society, petitions arrived in Congress in quantities never before seen. Over the gag rule period, well over 1,000 petitions, with 130,000 signatures, poured into the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate praying for the abolition or the restriction of that allegedly beneficial "peculiar institution", as it was called in the South. There was a special focus on slavery in the District of Columbia, where policy was a federal, rather than state, matter. The petitions also asked Congress to use its Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce to end the interstate slave trade, The petitions were usually presented by former president John Quincy Adams, who as a member of the House of Representatives from strongly anti-slavery Massachusetts, identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgement of the right of citizens to petition the government. The pro-slavery forces controlled Congress. The faction responded with a series of gag rules that, much to the disgust of Northerners, automatically "tabled" all such petitions, prohibiting them from being printed, read, discussed, or voted on. "The effect of these petitions was to create much irritation and ill feeling between different parts of the Union.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_rule_(United_States)

“Am I gagged or am I not?”

“Representative John Quincy Adams responding to the gag rule in the House of Representatives, May 25, 1836.”

“The Constitution guarantees citizens the right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Nineteenth-century Americans exercised this right vigorously. Each session, Congress received petitions "respectfully," but "earnestly praying" for action. In 1834 the American Anti-Slavery Society began an antislavery petition drive. Over the next few years the number of petitions sent to Congress increased sharply. In 1837—38, for example, abolitionists sent more than 130,000 petitions to Congress asking for the abolition of slavery in Washington, DC. As antislavery opponents became more insistent, Southern members of Congress were increasingly adamant in their defense of slavery.”

“In May of 1836 the House passed a resolution that automatically "tabled," or postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery without hearing them. Stricter versions of this gag rule passed in succeeding Congresses. At first, only a small group of congressmen, led by Representative John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, opposed the rule. Adams used a variety of parliamentary tactics to try to read slavery petitions on the floor of the House, but each time he fell victim to the rule. Gradually, as antislavery sentiment in the North grew, more Northern congressmen supported Adams’s argument that, whatever one’s view on slavery, stifling the right to petition was wrong. In 1844 the House rescinded the gag rule on a motion made by John Quincy Adams.”

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/text/page10_text.html

“Before strains over the Nation’s regional differences became so severe as to cause a Civil War, the locus of regional conflict was the U.S. Congress. The tariff, the admission of new states, and the regulation of slavery were all issues that were centered on congressional action. The speeches and votes of members of Congress on these issues framed how most Americans viewed the tug of regional interests. This paper is about one episode in the antebellum regional drama—the so-called “gag rule,” which from 1836 to 1844 barred the House from receiving petitions concerning the abolition of slavery.”

“This is an episode of which most students of Congress and of antebellum American history are at least dimly aware; yet, it has elicited few scholarly treatments.1 We find that there were two decisive movements in determining support for the gag rule in the House, both of which were driven by electoral dynamics. The first movement was between the 24th Congress (1835-37), when the gag rule was first adopted, and the 25th Congress (1837-39), when the rule’s initial partisan intentions were undermined by growing anti-slavery sentiments in the North. The second movement was between the 27th and 28th Congresses (1841-45), when the contingent of anti-slavery northern Democrats grew sufficiently large (or northern sentiments grew sufficiently strong, or both) that the gag rule supporters threw in the towel. The gag rule was intended as a mechanism to help bind the Democratic party together in a veneer of unity in the face of growing anti-slavery agitation. Instead, the rule only agitated popular sentiments even more, making the device ultimately untenable.”

https://web.mit.edu/cstewart/www/gag_rule_v12.pdf

The rose colored glasses and that kool aid smile has to cease. There was no such thing as “slavery” as it has been presented. It is a lie to cover the generational Wall Street grift. Think about it? Making a profit off of the labor, a profit off of insurance and, a profit off of trading and no actual redistribution of equity. Just a working class of people and an “effendi ‘lord’ class” of minders, who view the people as animals. Kinda like now.

Lord have Mercy