WAS FRANKLIN PIERCE A KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE?

[L.C. BAKER]

As you already know, President Franklin Pierce was openly accused of belonging to the K.G.C. by William Henry Seward. It was even published in news papers. It was put off by the " U.S. House of Representatives as a hoax and the charges by Secretary of State Seward were dismissed.
We can now without a reasonable doubt, link The 14th president of the United States,Franklin Pierce and his Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ( future president of the C.S.A. )to a known K.G.C. spy and another "Copperhead" holding office in 1859. This link is supported by hard evidence that the four men involved were in fact Knights of the Golden Circle.
L.C. BAKER

 

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In early 1862, Radical Republicans in the Senate, aided by Secretary of State William H. Seward, suggested that former president Franklin Pierce, who was greatly critical of the Lincoln administration's war policies, was an active member of the Knights of the Golden Circle. In an angry letter to Seward, Pierce denied that he knew anything about the KGC, and demanded that his letter be made public. California Senator Milton Latham subsequently did so when he entered the entire Pierce-Seward correspondence into the Congressional Globe.
L.C. Baker

 

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William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks in 1853 before his death. Earlier he had been elected as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina and a Senator from Alabama. He was Franklin Pierce's running mate, and they won by a land slide in 1852.
King would be succeeded in the vice presidency after his death by none other than John C. Breckinridge, the future vice president of the C.S.A. and shining light of the Knights of the Golden Circle. That means that Franklin Pierce had Jefferson Davis the future president of the C.S.A., as his Secretary of War and John C. Breckinridge, the future vice president of the C.S.A positioned in his cabinet. Now what do you think? Was Franklin Pierce K.G.C. ?
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Why do you think Franklin Pierce would be interested in this particular piece of land? Why do you think the South claimed and defended it during the civil war? The Southern route for the railroad.... I don't buy that for one minute.
BAKER

 

[L.C. BAKER]

As you already know, President Franklin Pierce was openly accused of belonging to the K.G.C. by William Henry Seward. It was even published in news papers. It was put off by the " U.S. House of Representatives as a hoax and the charges by Secretary of State Seward were dismissed.
We can now without a reasonable doubt, link The 14th president of the United States,Franklin Pierce and his Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ( future president of the C.S.A. )to a known K.G.C. spy and another "Copperhead" holding office in 1859. This link is supported by hard evidence that the four men involved were in fact Knights of the Golden Circle.
L.C. BAKER

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The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla, in Mexico) is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the US Senate on April 25, 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce, with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8, 1854.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla, in Mexico) is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the US Senate on April 25, 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce, with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8, 1854.

As the railroad age progressed, business-oriented Southerners saw that a railroad linking the South with the Pacific Coast would expand trade opportunities. They thought the topography of the southern portion of the Mexican Cession was too mountainous to allow a direct route. Projected southern routes tended to run to the north at their eastern ends, which would favor connections with northern railroads and ultimately favor northern seaports. Southerners saw that to avoid the mountains, a route with a southeastern terminus might need to swing south into what was then Mexican territory. This is whats known as a white wash....or cover up.
L.C. Baker

 

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The problem for the CSA with railroads of in the South were twofold-mant different owners with limited routes that DID NOT connect with other RR companies routes,AND several different gauges employed by the competing RR companies.For example,one could not travel from Richmond to Atlanta on a single train,and most RR's went from inland depots to coastal ports.
http://americancivilwar.com/civil_war_map/confederate_railroad_map.html

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The problem for the CSA with railroads of in the South were twofold-mant different owners with limited routes that DID NOT connect with other RR companies routes,AND several different gauges employed by the competing RR companies.For example,one could not travel from Richmond to Atlanta on a single train,and most RR's went from inland depots to coastal ports.
http://americancivilwar.com/civil_war_map/confederate_railroad_map.html

The inner circle of the K.G.C. bought huge amounts of land as speculators, but they had insider information about where the rails would be running way before they got there. But the railroad was not as important as other things obtained with the Gadsden purchase.
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic or logical deduction or, informally, "top-down" logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion.
Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true. Think about it.
L.C. Baker

 

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Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic or logical deduction or, informally, "top-down" logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion.
Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true. Think about it.
L.C. Baker

Philosophy 101, eh...?

 

[L.C. BAKER]

LOL! Rebel, I guess your right! I just want people to understand the true reality of what happened instead of the bogus stories that were created by the guilty parties in question.
L.C.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

LOL! Rebel, I guess your right! I just want people to understand the true reality of what happened instead of the bogus stories that were created by the guilty parties in question.
L.C.

LOL! I had ADVANCED Philosophy when I got lower & upper degrees (M.Ed.); There is ANOTHER "level", to be considered... ACTUALITY! ACTUALITY & REALITY! ACTUALITY = "way" things REALLY & TRULY are; REALITY = how we perceive the "way" things are. SOMETIMES, it is PRE-SELECTIVE "seeing". EXAMPLE: You & I see a color, RED; RED, it is, YOU say. As an artist, I MAY say NO! It is a specific "shade" of RED; to each, it is given... according to "understanding". From Philosophy 501... LOL!

 

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FP was certainly a COPPERHEAD!

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The inner circle of the K.G.C. bought huge amounts of land as speculators, but they had insider information about where the rails would be running way before they got there. But the railroad was not as important as other things obtained with the Gadsden purchase.
L.C. Baker

Cover Up:

In the summer of 1853, an American adventurer and soldier by the name of William Walker traveled to Guaymas, seeking a grant from the government of Mexico to create a colony that would serve as a fortified frontier, protecting US soil from retaliations by Native Americans. Mexico refused, and Walker returned to San Francisco determined to obtain his colony, regardless of Mexico's position. He began recruiting from amongst American supporters of slavery and the Manifest Destiny Doctrine, mostly inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee. His intentions then changed from forming a buffer colony to establishing an independent Republic of Sonora, which might eventually take its place as a part of the American Union (as had been the case previously with the Republic of Texas). He funded his project by "selling scripts which were redeemable in lands of Sonora."

TRUTH:

In the summer of 1853, a Knight of the Golden Circle soldier by the name of William Walker first traveled to Guaymas Mexico trying to obtain it from Mexico for the K.G.C. Walker returned to San Francisco after Mexico's refusal to relinquish the land, still determined to obtain the K.G.C. colony, regardless of Mexico's position. Walker was being backed by the Knights of the Golden Circle and would not take no for an answer. Walker began recruiting from amongst K.G.C. supporters of slavery and the Manifest Destiny Doctrine, mostly inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee. His true intentions then became uncovered from forming a buffer colony for the U.S. to the true K.G.C. reason of establishing an independent Republic of Sonora, which might eventually take its place as a part of the C.S.A. (as had been the case previously with the Republic of Texas). The K.G.C. funded his project by using fraudulent land speculations, "selling scripts which were redeemable in the new K.G.C. controlled lands of Sonora."


On October 16, 1853, filibuster William Walker sailed out from San Francisco with 48 men on his first filibustering expedition: the conquest of the Mexican Baja California Territory and the state of Occidente. He financed the effort by selling scrip in exchange for promises of land in Sonora.
Three weeks later, Walker took control of La Paz, the capital of the sparsely populated Baja California, and 200 more men joined him. Walker declared La Paz the capital of a new Republic of Baja California, with himself as president and a constitution copied from that of Louisiana.
Fearful of attacks by Mexico, Walker moved his position twice over the next three months, first to Cabo San Lucas, and then further north to Ensenada, Baja California. Here he abolished the "Republic of Baja California", instead pronouncing Baja California part of the larger Republic of Sonora.




Franklin Pierce was the United states President at the time this was taking place.
L.C. Baker

 

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In 1854, a civil war erupted in Nicaragua between the Legitimist Party (also called the Conservative Party), based in the city of Granada, and the Democratic Party (also called the Liberal Party), based in León. The Democratic Party sought military support from Walker who, to circumvent U.S. neutrality laws, obtained a contract from Democratic president Francisco Castellón to bring as many as three hundred "colonists" to Nicaragua.
With Castellón's consent, Walker attacked the Legitimists in the town of Rivas, near the trans-isthmian route. He was driven off, but not without inflicting heavy casualties. On September 4, during the Battle of La Virgen, Walker defeated the Legitimist army. On October 13, he conquered the Legitimist capital of Granada and took effective control of the country. Initially, as commander of the army, Walker ruled Nicaragua through provisional President Patricio Rivas. U.S. President Franklin Pierce recognized Walker's regime as the legitimate government of Nicaragua on May 20, 1856. Walker's first ambassadorial appointment, Colonel Parker H. French, was refused recognition.

L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The Second Battle of Rivas occurred on 11 April 1856 between Costa Rican militia under General Mora and the Nicaraguan forces of William Walker. The lesser known First Battle of Rivas took place on 29 June 1855 between Walker's forces and the forces of the Chamorro government of Nicaragua.
At the time, a major trade route between New York City and San Francisco ran through southern Nicaragua. Ships from New York would enter the San Juan River from the Atlantic and sail across Lake Nicaragua. People and goods would then be transported by stagecoach over a narrow strip of land near the city of Rivas, before reaching the Pacific and being shipped to San Francisco. The commercial exploitation of this route had been attained from a previous Nicaraguan administration to Wall Street tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company. Garrison and Morgan had wrested control of the company from Vanderbilt and then supported Walker's expedition. Vanderbilt spread rumors that the company was issuing stock illegally in order to depress its value, allowing him to regain controlling interest.
In July 1856, Walker set himself up as president of Nicaragua, after conducting a farcical election. As ruler of Nicaragua, Walker then revoked the Transit Company's charter, claiming that it had violated the agreement, and granted use of the route back to Garrison and Morgan. Outraged, Vanderbilt successfully pressured the U.S. government to withdraw its recognition of Walker's regime. Walker had also scared his neighbors and American and European investors with talk of further military conquests in Central America. Vanderbilt finance and train a military coalition of these states, led by Costa Rica, and worked to prevent men and supplies from reaching Walker. He also provided defectors from Walker's army with payments and free passage back to the U.S.
Realizing that his position was becoming precarious, he sought support from the Southerners in the U.S. by recasting his campaign as a fight to spread the institution of black slavery, which many American Southern businessmen saw as the basis of their agrarian economy. With this in mind, Walker revoked Nicaragua's emancipation edict of 1824. This move did increase Walker's popularity in the South and attracted the attention of Pierre Soulé, an influential New Orleans politician, who campaigned to raise support for Walker's war. Nevertheless, Walker's army, thinned by an epidemic of cholera and massive defections, was no match for the Central American coalition and Vanderbilt's agents.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Andrew Horatio Reeder (July 12, 1807 - July 5, 1864) was the first governor of the Territory of Kansas

Reeder was a loyal member of the Democratic Party and supported the idea of popular sovereignty which dealt with territories' decisions on the issue of slavery. On June 29, 1854, President Franklin Pierce appointed Reeder to the office of the governor of the territory of Kansas and remained in office until August 16, 1855, when he was fired.

Reeder took the oath of office on July 7 and arrived in Kansas on October 7. He served until April 17, 1855, when he left the territory, making Daniel Woodson acting territorial governor. Woodson was appointed secretary of the Kansas Territory by President Franklin Pierce on June 29, 1854 and took the oath of office in Washington, DC on September 28th, drawing an annual salary of $2,000. Because he was fully sympathetic to those who wanted to make Kansas a slave state, he agreed with the wishes of the proslavery forces in the territory. Reeder returned to the Kansas Territory on June 23.As governor of the Territory of Kansas, Reeder was a proponent of the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act. On March 30, 1855, one of the biggest voting frauds took place, when neighboring Missourians came into the Kansas Territory to vote illegally on the issue of Kansas being admitted into the U.S. as a free state or a slave state. The incident caused border violence between Kansas and Missouri, referred to as Bleeding Kansas. Reeder refused to ratify the results, called for a new election to fill the vacancies, and designated the townsite of Pawnee as the meeting place for the first territorial legislature

While Governor Andrew Reeder was away from the territory, Woodson became acting governor, signing the first laws passed by the territorial legislature. ( a quick reading of this document and it is easy to see that it was written by the K.G.C.) Even though this first territorial legislature was accepted by the federal government, free staters called the laws "bogus laws".
President Pierce formally dismissed Reeder for his refusal to use his position to aid in making Kansas a slave state. In May 1856, facing indictment for high treason, he left the territory disguised as a wood-chopper.


The proof is in the pudding,
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Franklin Pierce's credibility was damaged when several of his diplomats issued the Ostend Manifesto. The historian David Potter concludes that the Ostend Manifesto and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were "the two great calamities of the Franklin Pierce administration.... Both brought down an avalanche of public criticism." More importantly, says Potter, they permanently discredited Manifest Destiny and "popular sovereignty" as political doctrines.

The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union. However, diplomatically, the country had been content to see the island remain in Spanish hands so long as it did not pass to a stronger power such as Britain or France. A product of the debates over slavery in the United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Monroe Doctrine, the Ostend Manifesto proposed a shift in foreign policy, justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security.

From "An Authentic Exposition of the K.G.C"

Particular attention was now directed to the in-grafting of the policy
of the acquisition of Cuba into the Democratic platform. It was
confidently hoped to make it a national Democratic doctrine. In
this they were, to a considerable extent, successful; and there is
but little doubt that, had it not been for the agitation of the
slavery question between the years 1850-54, the acquisition of
Cuba, either by purchase or conquest, would have become the
leading political issue of the country. Many Northern Democrats
were strongly opposed to the policy, but no Southern ones were.
In the Spring of 1854, it became apparent to the Southern extremists
that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise had caused
a great political revolution in the Northern States

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Franklin Pierce's credibility was damaged when several of his diplomats issued the Ostend Manifesto. The historian David Potter concludes that the Ostend Manifesto and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were "the two great calamities of the Franklin Pierce administration.... Both brought down an avalanche of public criticism." More importantly, says Potter, they permanently discredited Manifest Destiny and "popular sovereignty" as political doctrines.

The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union. However, diplomatically, the country had been content to see the island remain in Spanish hands so long as it did not pass to a stronger power such as Britain or France. A product of the debates over slavery in the United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Monroe Doctrine, the Ostend Manifesto proposed a shift in foreign policy, justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security.

From "An Authentic Exposition of the K.G.C"

Particular attention was now directed to the in-grafting of the policy
of the acquisition of Cuba into the Democratic platform. It was
confidently hoped to make it a national Democratic doctrine. In
this they were, to a considerable extent, successful; and there is
but little doubt that, had it not been for the agitation of the
slavery question between the years 1850-54, the acquisition of
Cuba, either by purchase or conquest, would have become the
leading political issue of the country. Many Northern Democrats
were strongly opposed to the policy, but no Southern ones were.
In the Spring of 1854, it became apparent to the Southern extremists
that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise had caused
a great political revolution in the Northern States

Good book...

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Most of this info is open to the public for research. I have included in my comments some quotes from my writings, but most of this is from the archives. I am trying to lay a foundation of facts for my book to stand on.
Thanks Baker