Lincoln and the Preservation of Slavery?

Hello and Greetings from Dixie!

I read a great article this morning by Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo on Lew Rockwell (July 24th, 2006) concerning Lincoln's Pro-Slavery record called The Lincoln Cults Latest Cover-Up.

DiLorenzo referenced a recently found letter written by Lincoln urging the passing of a constitutional amendment-- what has been come to be known as the Ghost or Corwin Amendment -- which would enshrine slavery in the United States FOREVER!

I find this issue both fascinating and troubling. Will this tarnish the image of the Great Emancipator?

I doubt it!

Unfortunately, the truth does not further the mythology of the righteous North who teach our children that the South was wicked and that the North was justified in their unconstitutional invasion because they freed the slaves.

It also does not help the image the modern Republicans wish to cultivate with those of African descent.

Just last week President Bush evoked the name of Lincoln in this "historic" speech before the NAACP. Bush said that, "I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African American community."

To what ties does the President refer? The Emancipation Proclamation?

This proclamation was really a war time gimmick which did nothing, except perhaps, make the North feel good about their cause.

In this proclamation, Lincoln "freed" all the slaves over which Lincoln had no control, i.e., those in the CSA which were not occupied by Federal troops, and none of the slaves over which he did have control, i.e., those in the USA and those in the CSA which were occupied by Federal Troops.

Don't believe me-- read it: The Emancipation Proclamation

(I am beginning to wonder if anyone has...)

It was our current 13th Amendment to the Constitution that really freed the slaves-- all of them--in these United States of America. This was a real act of Congress and the States (including the former Confederate States), that really changed the law and really abolished slavery.

This great task was not done, like the mythology goes, by Presidential fiat... Lincoln waved his hand and Whoosh! the slaves were free.

It makes for a nice story, but it is untrue.

This "amazing" find, this "lost letter," once again illustrates the myth, indeed the willful lie, about Lincoln and the "African American community."

Why is all this important?

Because it shows that Lincoln was perfectly willing to establish slavery forever, yet the South still did not wish to rejoin the Union after secession. Why? What other reason was there for them to desire to separate?

It also shows that Lincoln's motivation for the war was something other than the freedom of the slaves. If it was not to free the slaves, why did Lincoln refuse to let the Southern States go in peace?

But more amazing (and troubling) than these historical questions, it goes to show to what lengths some people are willing to go-- over 140 years after the fact-- preserve the myth of Lincoln.

Why? What happens if the idol is smashed? What happens if the myth is exposed? What is to be gained by willfully obscuring the facts regarding this man and the war fought to prevent Southern independence? Who wins? Who loses?

Until we are willing to honestly face the past, all of us-- black or white-- will remain in intellectual bondage, shacked to a lie, and will continue to believe the worst about one another.

Until next time, I remain yours

In the cause,

~ P. C.

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. "
~Charles A. Beard


***Update 10/25/2006:
North Carolina State archives to display Lincoln's slavery amendment

Alternative News Sources:
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/10/24/news/doc453ecf55acac2765821378.txt
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4545829
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/15831999.htm
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/502467.html

The War on Terror

Hello & Greetings from Dixie!

Now what I wish to address is not THE war on terror currently being conducted by the US armed forces. I understand that it is too late to avert that one and that we MUST finish it. In fact, I was all for it until we decided that it was our job to plant the "seeds of democracy." [The democratically elected government in Palestine should be enough to convince those skeptical of my view on this matter] Government building is not our job, retaliation against those who would like to fly planes into our building, cut off people's heads, etc., is an all together different consideration. But I digress...

I am tired of being terrorized by our government in the form of taxation and intrusive policies under the auspices of protecting us from a small group of people bent on blowing themselves and others up for Allah. Until we can keep our citizens from killing each other, the exercise is one of futility.

This protectionalist ruse has been used by many here since "Honest" Abe opened this Pandora's Box in 1860. It is an excuse to disregard the Constitution and consolidate power.

What we need is something or someone to protect us from the government!

I haven't the slightest concern for being blown-up on a plane.

I am, however, concerned about those folks manning the gates and riffling through my person and property with the full sanction and authority of the Federal Government.

We should never sell our birthright for a pot of porridge, which is EXACTLY what we have done!
Consider the words of Benjamin Franklin:

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I can choose not to fly, but I cannot choose to not pay my taxes-- at least without great material injury to my family.

Why should I, a citizen of South Carolina, be taxed for a bridge being built in Alaska (or anywhere else for that matter)?

Why should my hard earned money be shipped to foreign countries for God knows what?

Why should I struggle to make ends meet when my hard earned money is scattered to the four winds of heaven?

Thomas Jefferson said that, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."


At least I am not alone in my assessment of tyranny! I think Mr. Jefferson would be with me on this...

Recently in South Carolina, our legislature voted for property tax relief, funding it by raising the sales tax. This shuck and jive election year stunt comes on the heels of a surplus of income to the state. Its not just the Feds, the states are in on the gig too!

What will it take to make us open our eyes?

George Washington would be reaching for his sword! Don't believe me? Check out the complaints lodge against the tyrant, King George as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence before we seceded from the British Empire.


[Go ahead, read it before continuing...]


How many of these outrages committed by King George do we suffer under today?

How much better off were we then as opposed to now?

Are we better off at all?

If we are not living under terror, then I would like to know what kind of liberty this is...

We are being terrorized by domestic and foreign enemies: one determined to rob us of our God given rights and lawfully obtained sustenance (The State) and one determined to terrorize us through murder and mayhem because of their extreme religious views (Islamo-Fascists are but one example).

Both are--or have become-- the enemy of a once free and proud people... Now mostly a Nation of Sheeple.

We can’t do much about the war overseas, but we can do something about the war going on here:

We can accomplish much by voting out the terrorist in Washington and replacing them with Patriots.

This may mean voting outside the two party system, i.e., voting for a candidate who is friendly to the Constitution instead of the voting the lesser of two evils.

This does not work and never will.

The Republicans have caused just as much mischief, if not more, than The Democrats previously in power.

They are the same! This is especially true at the National level.

Our domestic terrorists in power depend on an ignorant populist in order to increase/consolidate their power and rob us of our rights and goods.

Read the constitution of your state and the federal government and lay it against what you see going on around you. It will shock and amaze you!

We need to do something before we lose what little bit of personal liberty that we have left.

What will you do? What will I do?

~ P. C.

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. ~Charles A. Beard

Happy Secession Day!

- Originally Published July 4th, 2006 -
Hello & Greetings from Dixie!

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the American Colonies seceding from the British Empire-- a great day in the history of liberty and self determination.

The prose employed by Thomas Jefferson in our Declaration of Independence is sublime!

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...

Sadly, we no longer believe that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. That "revolutionary" idea ended in 1865 when the South was forced to submit to an authority from which they had withdrawn their consent.

This set a precedent that has continued to destroy our personal liberties since its innovation and implementation by wicked usurpers and tyrants who have trampled the Constitution of our forbearers under foot to make us subjects to the State when it was the intent of our forbearers to have it the other way around.

Now we know that the government derives its (unjust) powers from the point of a bayonet, the barrel of a gun, or the receiving end of the bomb.

It also derives its (unjust) powers by the intimidation of the citizens by the tax collector and other government regulator who terrorize and intimidate the people into submission.

They are powerful, we are weak.

Now, we believe, or have been lead to believe, that MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

This was not the foundation on which our country was established.

I see no reason to celebrate the principles that lead the Colonies to secede from the British Empire because we, as a people, no longer hold those truths to be self-evident or unalienable.

Although glorious in 1776, "Independence Day" in 2006 is a troubling day-- a day filled with joy, sorrow, and anger-- especially for those of us who still believe in those unalienable rights-- those rights which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle us; those rights claimed by our forbearers and paid for with the blood of patriots...

I think we ought to think about what has been gained and what has been lost since out first war of secession.

Until next time, I remain yours

In the cause,

~ P. C.

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
~Charles A. Beard