GC: Jefferson used to be a great hero of mine. But, the more I read about
him, the less I liked him. And, oddly, I came to admire one of TJ's
enemies--Hamilton! (Point of interest:
Hamilton hated slavery, which he observed close-up, growing up in the West
Indies; TJ, of course, was one of the richest slave-holding land barons in the
South. "(I believe Washington was actually number 1!). So, the fact is, we get
a very convoluted idea of our history. We have to dig deep to get the real
picture. " I'm glad you are doing so! I
need to do more! We all do!
The Civil War had almost nothing to do with freeing the slaves out of the
goodness of our hearts! Can anyone really imagine that white men--many being
newly arrived immigrants--are going to kill, and be killed by, other white men
for the sake of freeing black men, women and children?
Now, sure.. there were the Abolitionists and Harriet Beecher Stowe, John
Brown, etc. " They whipped up public sentiment.
But" the money men--the imperialists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon
line, are the ones who would finance and direct the War!
This weekend, I'll try to research the mass-hanging of reservation "Indians" that Lincoln
authorized --which I wrote you about before, and which
was the first thing that really turned me off to the guy!)
That weekend. "
JS: I've uncovered a lot
of good info now! There's a book called The
Real Lincoln (2003), written by Thomas DiLorenzo. DiLorenzo calls Lincoln "The Great Economic
Centralizer," and credits him for:
launching a military
invasion without the consent of Congress; suspending habeas corpus; imprisoning
thousands of Northern citizens without trial for merely opposing his policies;
censoring all telegraph communication and imprisoning dozens of opposition
newspaper publishers; nationalizing the railroads; using Federal troops to interfere
with elections; confiscating firearms; and deporting an opposition member of
Congress, after he opposed Lincoln's income tax proposal during a Democratic
Party rally in Ohio. . . . In addition to abandoning the Constitution, the
Lincoln administration established another ominous precedent by deciding to
abandon international law and the accepted moral code of civilized societies
and wage war on civilians.
In this latter regard, DiLorenzo reminds the reader of the scorched earth policies of Sheridan,
Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman, not only in the War Between the States but
in the post-war eradication of the Plains Indians in acts of mass murder
designed to pave the way for the government's transcontinental railroads; the
exploitative policies of Lincoln's successors in the Reconstructionist South of
1865-77; and the subsequent imperialistic policies abroad of McKinley, Theodore
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their successors in the furtherance of American
Empire. In each case, The Real Lincoln makes a compelling case
that in an epochal sense, it all began with the methods and motives of
America's 16th President.
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