A Forgotten Few St Clair Co Missouri
Chapter Three
Real Lincoln
"I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgement, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in the favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."
Chapter Four
They came as slaves, yes, vast cargo of humans stacked in the tall British ships in route to the Americas. The English, Dutch, Spanish, the whites that colonized America enslaved their own long before enslaving the Africans. In somewhat of a progression they enslaved their own first, then Native Americans, then the Africans.
King James ll started this practice to the Americas when he sold 300,000 Irish prisoners. In his Proclamation of 1625 he required Irish political prisoners be sent to the English settlers in the West Indies and America to be sold as slaves.
Chapter Twelve
George Washington (Speed) McDonald was born 18 August 1833, Auxvasse, Vandalia, Missouri to Shepard McDonald born @ 1816 in Virginia. he first joined Captain Asa James Cavalry. He then served in Coffee's Regiment (6th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry) and in Co. K, 16th Missouri Infantry. He joined these Missouri unites that defended Missouri for the Confederate States of America. He joined willingly and after the war was very active in the Confederate Reunions held in Missouri. After the war, Speed was close friends with the Youngers which he helped many times. This should not matter but to many it does, he was a Black man and was successful after the war.