| Lincoln's statist mentor:
Henry Clay | | |
|
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause."
-- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume V, "Letter to Horace Greeley" (August 22, 1862), p. 388.
- A 'Benevolent Dictator'
- Gail Jarvis, May 14, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]
- Who Invaded Whom?
- Mark Davis, March 1, 2005 [Strike the Root]
- It Has Happened Here
- George F. Smith, November 2, 2004 [Strike the Root]
- Justice Taney on Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus
A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. - Laurence M. Vance, January 17, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln’s Presidential Warrant to Arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
And so the case stands, the Presidential warrant to arrest the Chief Justice is on solid ground. It represents just one more tough nut the apologists and gate keepers have to live with; it cannot be swept under the rug, so to speak, as a fabrication. - Charles Adams, January 5, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]
- Leo Lincoln?
Lincoln’s cynical political manipulation of religion was the perfect Straussian subterfuge. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, May 22, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln, Gold, and Greenbacks
The Party of Lincoln wanted to transform the American government from the limited, constitutional republic of the founding fathers to an empire that would rival Great Britain’s, and they knew they needed a central bank to achieve that task. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, September 24, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Abraham Dubya Bush
This is just a short list of what President Bush must do if he wants to go down in history as Abraham Dubya Bush and carry on the tradition of The Party of Lincoln. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, August 30, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?
An Analysis of President Lincoln’s
Legal Arguments Against Secession. - James Ostrowski, July 29, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Sic Semper Tyrannis
Review of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War - H.A. Scott Trask, July, 2002 [Chronicles]
- Voluntary Union
The nature of the "union" preserved by Abraham Lincoln is on the front page yet again. Although the stories do not bear such headlines, the facts are there for all to read. - David Dieteman, July 13, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Confronting the Lincoln Cult
An Interview with Thomas DiLorenzo. - Mises.org, June 10, 2002 [Mises]
- Lincoln's Tariff War
- Thomas DiLorenzo, May 10, 2002 [Mises]
- Rewriting Economic History
One thing that can never be admitted in polite academic company is the notion that economics had anything to do with the American War between the States. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, May 1, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln’s Spectacular Lie
- Karen De Coster, April 29, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Tax Revolts and Liberty
Lincoln created an absolute central government that has spread like cancer, with an insatiable appetite for our money. - George F. Smith, April 22, 2002 [Strike the Root]
- Fighting Facts With Slander
Certain neo-conservatives have responded to the publication of my book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, with quite hysterical name calling, personal smears, and slanderous language. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, April 3, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- The real Lincoln
The framers had a deathly fear of federal government abuse. They saw state sovereignty as a protection. - Walter Williams, March 27, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]
- How Might Makes Right
Abraham Lincoln, in arguing against secession, had to invoke what he claimed as implied powers of the presidency. - Joseph Sobran, March 23, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- The Rise of Tax Slavery
The first income tax was imposed during the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln – you know, the Great Emancipator. - Joseph Sobran, March 20, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- In Search of Lincoln
Taken whole, Lincoln the man remains a tantalizing enigma. Even his friends often didn’t know what he really thought and believed. It doesn’t help that most of his admirers still don’t want to know. - Joseph Sobran, March 1, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Rewriting History,
American Style
- Thomas DiLorenzo, March 1, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Let the ad hominem begin
In their Feb. 19 WorldNetDaily article, "All Smoke, No Gun," Richard Ferrier and David Quackenbush hysterically and irrationally recommend that readers ignore my book, "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War," (Forum/Random House, March 2002) without ever having seen the book themselves. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, February 20, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]
- The Mythical Lincoln
Every February 12 Americans think they are celebrating Lincoln’s birthday. But what they are really celebrating is the birth of the Leviathan state that Lincoln, more than anyone else, is responsible for bringing about. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, February 12, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Another Yankee Sin
As February is both "Black History Month" and the anniversary of President Lincoln’s birthday, we know we will be hearing a lot about slavery as well as the War Between the States. Unfortunately, most of what we hear will be from television and other main stream media as well as the entertainment field - the most unreliable sources. - Gail Jarvis, February 8, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln’s Culture of Death
"Lincoln’s war settled once and for all the question of who would interpret the Constitution. It would no longer be the people of the sovereign states, but what Jefferson called the 'black-robed deities' of the Supreme Court." - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, August 23, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- So Long, "Honest Abe"
"Claremont professor Harry Jaffa’s recent attack on Joe Sobran distresses me most in its unfortunate and misguided understanding of political theory, and the shambles it makes of the relationship of power, truth, and politics." - Christopher Manion, August 8, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Mr. Jaffa’s Postscript
"Mr. Jaffa claims that Joe Sobran has misused Lincoln’s statements during the 1850s about Negroes." -David Gordon, August 3, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Whose Idea Was It?
"In my recent columns and speeches on Abraham Lincoln, I’ve several times repeated the story that in 1861, shortly after taking office, Lincoln issued an order for the arrest of Chief Justice Roger Taney. If true, it’s one of the most high-handed acts of any American president." - Joseph Sobran, June 29, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- The Ideal Lincoln
"Mr. Kemp accuses me of character assassination. In reply, I can accuse him of nothing worse than intellectual banality. He wants to reduce one of the most interesting men in American history – no, make that world history – to a plaster saint. He wants the Mythic Lincoln. I want the real Lincoln. I consider Mr. Kemp’s trite adoration insulting." - Joseph Sobran, June 1, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Reflections on the Masugi-Dieteman Exchange
"I happened recently across the exchange, of sorts, between my friend Ken Masugi and David Dieteman. It continues a long-standing debate about Abraham Lincoln. Seminal arguments on this subject were lucidly articulated in a series of articles appearing some years back featuring Ken’s teacher at Claremont, the masterful Harry Jaffa, and Mel Bradford, my late friend and colleague on the faculty of the University of Dallas." - Christopher Manion, June 1, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln with Fangs
Most people don’t realize that Lincoln didn’t want to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He was forced to do it. His own preference was for gradual emancipation, accompanied by the government-subsidized migration of free blacks outside the United States. - Joseph Sobran, February 24, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- The American Lenin
"The troubling truth is that, more than anybody else's, Abraham Lincoln's career resembles and foreshadows that of V.I. Lenin, who, with somewhat better technology at his disposal, slaughtered millions of innocents -- rather than mere hundreds of thousands -- to enforce an impossibly stupid idea which, in the end, like forced association, was proven by history to be a resounding failure." - L. Neil Smith, February 12, 2001 [Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc]
- Abraham Lincoln’s Pyrrhic Victory
This week Americans celebrate the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The true legacy of Lincoln usually gets drowned in the perennial gush about a president whose name is synonymous with freedom and the end of slavery. Lincoln’s role in bringing to an end the Jeffersonian ideal of a limited, constitutional government, with powers vested in sovereign states, remains relatively unexamined. - Ilana Mercer, February 15, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- A Guide for the Perplexed: What’s the Matter With Abe Lincoln
Either it is true that northern newspapers ran editorials calling for the death of every man, woman, and child in the South, and the colonization of the then-empty Southern states by northerners, or it is not. - David Dieteman, February 13, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Lincoln's Economic Legacy
Americans have been led to believe that when they celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday each year on February 12 they are celebrating freedom, the preservation of the union, and a reaffirmation of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. This belief is a testament to the notion that in war the victors get to write the history. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, February 9, 2001 [Mises]
- The Truth-Splitter
Review of Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr. (Johnson Publishing, 2000; xv + 651 pgs.) - David Gordon, Winter 2000 [Mises]
- Celebrating America's First Bolshevik
- Vin Suprynowicz, March 15, 2000 [Libertarian Enterprise]
- The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War between the States
Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, was also the Great Centralizer whose policies undermined the decentralized, federal system established by the Founders. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, August 1998 [The Independent Review]
- Beheading the "Great Messiah"
Lincoln was a ruthless dictator of the most contemptible sort. A conniving and manipulative man, and a scoundrel at heart, he was nowhere near what old guard historians would have us believe. - Karen De Coster, February 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
- Charles Kesler’s Lincolnitis
"Charles R. Kesler’s 'The Republican Challenge' (National Review, September 11, 2000) is a fantastic illustration of how Republican intellectuals are hell-bent on severing what ties they retain with republican principles." - Myles Kantor, September 14, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
- Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?
But the statement that 'Lincoln freed the slaves' is a gross oversimplification. Its widespread acceptance shows not only ignorance of history, but a deep incomprehension of the U.S. Constitution. - Joseph Sobran, August 18, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
- Reno Continues the Lincoln Legacy
In short, both Abe Lincoln and Janet Reno have left the same evil legacy: trashing the rule of law and trampling on the rights of American citizens. - William L. Anderson, December 14, 1999 [LewRockwell.com]
Lincoln's life before his War of Northern Aggression
"I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of the national bank; I am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high protective tariff."
- Abraham Lincoln, 1832 [The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln]
|
|
