A world full of historically ignorant people is a dangerous place to be…Just look where we are today and why…


“The plan succeeded. They attacked Sumter--it fell, and thus did more service than it otherwise could.” A. Lincoln


He orchestrated the rigging of Northern elections. 

Introduced the slavery of conscription and income taxation. 

Censored all telegraph communication. 


Waged war on civilians by having his armies’ bomb Southern cities and destroy or steal crops, livestock and private property throughout the South. 

Created an enormous political patronage system that survives today. 

Allowed the unjust mass execution of Sioux Indians in Minnesota. 

Destroyed the system of federalism and states’ rights that was created by the founding fathers, thereby destroying the voluntary union. 

Promoted generals for their willingness to use troops as cannon fodder. 

Created an internal revenue bureaucracy that has never diminished in size and power. 

Lincoln's actions caused a violent war that changed the United States from a limited republic of free states into a single monolithic unit that has since 1865 slowly destroyed individual liberty in this country. 

Some of this sounds all too familiar…

Photo: Confederate veterans at an old soldiers home...

 Since 1861, the United States has had a government of special interests, by special interests, and for special interests, dedicated to the proposition that their power and profits "shall not perish from the earth." 

Mr. Lincoln supported economic interventionism through protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare, and central banking that would plunder one section of the country (the South) for the benefit of his Northern political supporters. 

He started a war without the consent of Congress; illegally declared martial law; illegally blockaded Southern ports; illegally suspended habeas corpus and arrested tens of thousands of political opponents; illegally orchestrated the secession of West Virginia; shut down hundreds of opposition newspapers and imprisoned their editors and owners; deported the most outspoken member of the Democratic Party opposition, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio; confiscated private property, including firearms; ignored the Ninth and Tenth Amendments; tolerated the arrest of ministers who refused to publicly pray for him; arrested duly elected members of the Maryland legislature as well as Congressman Henry May of Baltimore; and supported a law that indemnified federal officials from all of these illegal acts.  

And lets not forget making all out war on the civilian population of the South… 

From where springs the seeds of corruption...?

With the Northern administration came the wholesale corruption of the political system. In 1864, Edward Bates, Lincoln's attorney general, lamented that "the demoralizing effect of this civil war is plainly visible in every department of life. The abuse of official powers and thirst for dishonest gain are now so common that they cease to shock." 

As Henry S. Olcott, special investigator for the U.S. War and Navy Departments, revealed in The War's Carnival of Fraud (1878), "at least twenty, if not twenty-five, percent of the entire expenditures of the government during the Rebellion, were tainted with fraud." Later estimates put the level of fraud involving Army contracts at 50 percent. 

Such institutional corruption defines the post-constitutional America that Lincoln created. The destruction of the Old Republic ensured the entrenchment of a permanent kleptocracy. That is Lincoln's legacy.

SO TRUE…!

As the attorney and legal scholar, James Ostrowski commented…for Lincoln's actions and his creative interpretation of the Constitution to have actually been legal, the Constitution would have had to state that: 

1) No state may ever secede from the Union for any reason. 

2) If any State attempts to secede, the Federal Government shall invade such State with sufficient military force to suppress the attempted secession. 

3) The federal government may coerce all states to provide militias to suppress the seceding state.

 4) After suppressing said secession, the Federal Government shall rule said State by martial law until such time as said State shall accept permanent federal supremacy.

 5) After suppressing said secession, the Federal Government shall force said State to ratify a new constitutional amendment which gives the Federal Government the right to police the states whenever it believes those states are violating the rights of their citizens.

 6) The President may, of his own authority, suspend the operation of the Bill of Rights and the writ of habeas corpus, in a seceding or loyal state, if in his sole judgment such is necessary to preserve the Union.  

Of course, if the Constitution actually said this, it would never have been approved by the legislatures of the sovereign States.  

For further evidence by a Constitutional scholar see Andrew Napolitano’s video on youtube “Abraham Lincoln Tyrant” 

"The struggle of today is on the one side for empire and on the other for independence." ~ Wigan Examiner (UK) May, 1861.  

"The Southerners are admired for everything but their slavery and that their independence may be speedily acknowledged by France and England is, we are convinced, the strong desire of the vast majority, not only in England but throughout Europe." ~ Liverpool Daily Post, 11 March 1862.  

Lincoln himself stated, as well as commentators at the time, taxation and secession were the issues, not slavery. And as many in the North and Europe realized, it was Lincoln who schemed to launch the most devastating war in American history.

“The fall of Plymouth led to the Federal evacuation of [Little] Washington. [General Robert F.] Hoke laid siege to Washington on April 27 [1864], but he made no efforts to storm the defenses since reports indicated that the enemy was abandoning the place. Unfortunately for the local citizens, while Hoke bided his time for three days, the evacuating Federal troops thoroughly sacked the town.

On the evening of April 26, [the enemy commander] received orders to evacuate his base….[and] during the afternoon of the twenty-seventh there were some instances of theft, and before morning pillaging commenced. “Government stores, sutler’s establishments, dwelling houses, private shops, and stables suffered alike. Gangs of men patrolled the city, breaking into houses and wantonly destroying such goods as they could not carry away. The occupants and owners were insulted and defied in their feeble indeavors to protect their property.”

This lawlessness lasted until 4:00 P.M. of the thirtieth, when the last of the [enemy] troops boarded steamer for New Bern. As these final detachments prepared to embark, fires broke out in town. The flames quickly spread from the riverfront warehouses to the northern limits of Washington, and before the conflagration could be brought under control fully one-half of the town lay in ashes.

When the Confederate troops finally entered Washington, they found it a “ruined City….a sad scene – mostly….chimneys and Heaps of ashes to mark the place where Fine Houses once stood, and the Beautiful trees, which shaded the side walks, Burnt, some all most to coal.”

(The Civil War in North Carolina, John G. Barrett, UNC Press, 1963, pp. 220-221)

Photo: Unidentified NC soldier...

TEXANS ALWAYS MOVE EM!!!

As wildfires burned in the background, General Robert E. Lee rode up to General James Longstreet. Describing his long time friend and commander, Longstreet said, "Lee's blood was up and when his blood was up there was no stopping him."

Moments earlier, Lee had attempted to go side by side in line of battle with his Texas brigade. Wildfires blazed across much of the contested ground as the critical moment of the Battle of the Wilderness had arrived. General Grant's Federal army began to break through Lee's lines. Lee was desperate to find help. As if on cue, the lead brigade of one of Longstreet's divisions, General John Gregg's Texans had unexpectedly arrived and immediately without missing a step closed ranks and formed a battle line to meet the Federal onset.

Lee called out to the veterans, "Who are you boys?" "Texas boys," the men yelled back. Exhilarated that his best troops were now on the field of fire, General Lee stood up in his stirrups and exclaimed, "Hurrah for Texas! Texans always move them!"

With a shout that could be heard for a mile the line moved forward. Caught up in the moment Lee also spurred his horse Traveler forward. The commander of the entire Army of Northern Virginia was now advancing into the line of fire as a combat soldier.

The veteran Texans realizing the folly of Lee's intentions, yelled at him to go back, but Lee pushed forward. A sergeant grabbed Traveler's reins saying, "We won't go on unless you go back!" Major Venable of Lee's staff rode up and yelled, "General Longstreet is at hand!" This brought Lee back to reality and his other responsibilities. As General Lee rode up next to his "Old War Horse", Longstreet tactfully mentioned the danger the two leaders were in and advised moving westward a short distance to safety. The two commanders rode off having turned a perilous morning into a victorious afternoon.