Lincoln in the Civil War - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

TwitchKitty · #1 06-18-2006, 12:00 PM

We recently discussed Lincoln in the Civil War briefly in another thread here:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=154898&page=6

There have been other threads in the past here on related topics and some of those threads have gotten really ugly and as I recall were on the slippery slope leading to some members being banned. So with a warning to try to stay along factual lines and not get too emotional about the whole thing I present a clip that I took from the web several years ago with the intent of researching the claims. I have not done so and was hoping that some of you would have some background from which to comment on this:

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The victors write history.
As Napoleon Bonaparte once said, History .... "is a myth men agree to believe", i.e., "lies agreed upon."
The government schools have performed superbly in indoctrinating generations of American school children with a pack of lies, myths, omissions, and falsehoods about Lincoln and his war of conquest.
What's the truth?

Lincoln violated the Constitution and his oath of office by invading and waging war against states that had legally and democratically withdrawn their consent from his government, inaugurating one of the cruelest wars in recent history.
Subverted the duly constituted governments of states that had not left the Union, thereby subverting their constitution right to "republican form of government."
Declared martial law.
Raised troops without the approval of Congress and expending funds without appropriation.
Suspended the writ of habeas corpus and interfering with the press without due process, imprisoning 30,000 "northern" citizens and 31 legislators without charge or trial, and closing courts by military force where no hostilities were occurring.
Corrupted the currency by manipulations and paper swindles unheard of in previous US history.
Oversaw fraud and corruption by appointees and contractors with his knowledge and connivance.
He signed the National Currency Act that nationalized our banking system.
He initiated the first Income Tax and started the Internal Revenue bureaucracy.
Continued the war by raising ever-larger bodies of troops by conscription and hiring of foreign mercenaries and refusing to negotiate in good faith for an end to hostilities.
Confiscated millions of dollars of property by his agents in the South, especially cotton, without legal proceedings.
Waging war against women and children and civilian property as the matter of policy (rather than as unavoidably incident to combat). (General Sherman and others)
Deliberately starved and murdered Confederate prisoners of War.

Lincoln’s stated purpose in the war was to destroy the principle of the Declaration of Independence that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. He succeeded.