The Most Consequential Elections in History: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860

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American history as taught in America's schools is actually a biased New England perspective of the war.

My article gives the politically incorrect Southern perspective of the causes of the war--a perspective that you will never read in any American History book or hear in any American classroom.

The words of Irish-born Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne from his January 1864 letter:

"Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late...It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision...The conqueror's policy is to divide the conquered into factions and stir up animosity among them...

James W. King

Past Commander

Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 141

Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson

Albany Georgia

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Lincoln--Dictator, Tyrant, Despot--Part 3.

Children in America's schools are taught that "Abraham Lincoln was kind

And generous." This is an outright lie written by Northern historians.

If the Confederate States of America had won The War Between the States

(Civil War) 1861-1865, Abraham Lincoln, Sherman, and Sheridan would

have been tried for war crimes.

General Philip Sheridan destroyed the Shenandoah Valley of

Virginia, burning hundreds of houses to the ground and killing or stealing

all livestock and destroying crops long after the Confederate Army had left

the valley, just as winter was approaching.

General William T. Sherman burned Atlanta, Georgia and approximately

60 counties east to Savannah. Sherman’s New York regiments were filled

with big city criminals and foreigners fresh from the jails of Europe. Lincoln

recruited the worst of the worst to serve as pillagers and plunderers in Sherman’s

army. They committed horrible atrocities against the civilian population of Georgia

including women and children. They kidnapped approximately 600 women and

children from a Roswell, Georgia mill and shipped them north where they were

forced to work as slave labor in Northern factories.

Lincoln used the war to "remove the constraints that Southern senators and

congressmen, standing in the Jeffersonian tradition, placed in the way of

centralized federal power, high tariffs, and subsidies to Northern

industries." Indeed, Lincoln’s 28-year political career prior to becoming

president was devoted almost exclusively to this end. Even Lincoln idolater

Mark Neely, Jr., in The Fate of Liberty, noted that as early as the 1840s,

Lincoln exhibited a "gruff and belittling impatience" with constitutional

arguments against his cherished Whig economic agenda of protectionist

tariffs, corporate welfare for the railroad and road building industries,

and a federal government monopolization of the money supply. Once he was in

power, Lincoln appointed himself "constitutional dictator" and immediately

pushed through this mercantilist economic agenda – an agenda that had been

vetoed by president after president beginning with Jefferson.

Far from saving the Union, Lincoln utterly destroyed the

Union achieved by the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution. The

original Union was a voluntary association of states. By holding it together

at gunpoint Lincoln may have "saved" the Union in a geographic sense, but he

destroyed it in a philosophical sense.

LINCOLN IS THE GREATEST BY FAR

In spite of the still smoldering resentment by some southern

apologists the fact that Lincoln's reputation has only grown through the years is a testament to the power of his compassion and vision during the incredible turmoil that was the 1860's.To mention that Chief Justice Taney, a racist southerner most infamous for his Dred Scott decision that blacks were not men, disagreed with Lincoln is not a surprise. He was probably the worst man to ever hold that post.

But aside from that he is generally regarded as one of America's 10 greatest writers and he was able to put the nub of the issue in such plain and clear terms that he moved people further than they were initially willing to go.There are no speeches by any president that can compare to the Gettysburg address or the 2 inaugural addresses composed by Lincoln himself.

Lincoln---Dictator, Tyrant, Despot--Part 2.

History has been very kind to Abraham Lincoln in view of his unconstitutional actions.

When the New York City Journal of Commerce published a list of over 100

Northern newspapers that opposed the Lincoln administration, Lincoln ordered

the Postmaster General to deny those papers mail delivery, which is how

nearly all newspapers were delivered at the time. A few of the papers

resumed publication only after promising not to criticize the Lincoln

administration. However many northern newspapers were burned and their

owners imprisoned.

Lincoln ignored rulings hand-delivered to him by U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Roger Taney ordering Lincoln to respect and faithfully execute the laws of

the United States. Taney – and virtually all legal scholars at the time – was of the opinion that only Congress could constitutionally suspend habeas corpus, and had his opinion

hand delivered to Lincoln by courier. Lincoln ignored it and never even

bothered to challenge it in court.

Lincoln urged his generals to conduct total war against the Southern civilian population. Again, this is not even controversial. As pro-Lincoln historian Steven Oates wrote in the

December 1995 issue of Civil War Times, Lincoln fully endorsed Sheridan’s

burning of the Shenandoah Valley, Sherman’s brutal March to the Sea through

Georgia, and the destructive raid through Alabama. Historian James McPherson

has written of how Lincoln micromanaged the war effort perhaps as much as

any American president ever has. It is inconceivable, therefore, that he did

not also micromanage the war on civilians that was waged by his generals.

Lincoln’s war strategy was called the "Anaconda Plan" because it sought to

strangle the Southern economy by blockading the ports and controlling the

inland waterways, such as the Mississippi River. It was, in other words,

focused on destroying the civilian economy.

General Sherman declared on January 31, 1864 that "To the petulant and

persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy." In a July 31, 1862 letter to

his wife he said his goal was "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is

the least part of the trouble, but the people." And so he burned the towns

of Randolph, Tennessee, Jackson and Meridian, Mississippi, and Atlanta to

the ground after the Confederate army had left; bombarded cities occupied

only by civilians in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1863; and boasted

in his memoirs of destroying $100 million in private property and stealing

another $20 million worth. All of this destroyed food stuffs and left women,

children, and the elderly in the cold of winter without shelter or food.

Lincoln----Dictator, Tyrant, Despot --Part 1.

The "Honest Abe" Abraham Lincoln myth needs to be dispelled.

Lincoln used war to destroy the U.S. Constitution in order to establish a

powerful central government. Lincoln illegally suspended the writ of habeas

corpus; launched a military invasion without consent of Congress; blockaded

Southern ports without declaring war; imprisoned without warrant or trial

some 38,000 Northern citizens who opposed his policies; arrested dozens of

newspaper editors and owners and, in some cases, had federal soldiers

destroy their printing presses; censored all telegraph communication;

nationalized the railroads; created three new states (Kansas, Nevada, and

West Virginia) without the formal consent of the citizens of those states,

an act that Lincoln’s own attorney general thought was unconstitutional;

ordered Federal troops to interfere with Northern elections; deported a

member of Congress from Ohio after he criticized Lincoln’s unconstitutional

behavior; confiscated private property; confiscated firearms in violation of

the Second Amendment; and eviscerated the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

A New Orleans man was executed for merely taking down a U.S. flag; ministers were imprisoned for failing to say a prayer for Abraham Lincoln, and Fort Lafayette in New York harbor became known as "The American Bastille" since it held so many thousands of Northern political prisoners. All of this was catalogued decades ago in such books as James G. Randall’s Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln and Dean Sprague’s Freedom Under Lincoln.

"This amazing disregard for the Constitution," wrote historian Clinton

Rossiter," was "considered by nobody as legal." "One man was the government of the United States," says Rossiter. Lincoln was an absolute dictator. Lincoln used his dictatorial powers to suppress all Northern

opposition to his illegal and unconstitutional acts. This is not even

controversial, and is painstakingly catalogued in the above-mentioned books

as well as in The Real Lincoln (a new book by Thomas J. DiLorenzo).

The Election of 1860

Thank you so much for this wonderful article about the presidential election of 1860. Indeed, it was by far the most momentous in our history.

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Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic" Aug. 31 - Sept. 2

Lincoln became president having only 32 delegates on election day in 1860. He wasn't expected to win, but did!

The person with the most delegates going into the nominating convention is not necessarily going to come out the winner; especially in the case of John McCain in 2008.

If the Republican delegates care about their nation, they should reject John McCain at the convention and choose Ron Paul.

If it could happen in 1860 and again in 1964 with the nomination of Barry Goldwater, it can happen again in 2008.

Let's face it, no one wants John McCain as the Republican nominee and if he is chosen, he will get his butt kicked on November 4th by an equally empty vessel!

Check out Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic" August 31st thru September 2nd in St.Paul (at the same time as the Republican convention).