Happy Worst President’s Day
A 64-year-old woman with deep family roots in Alabama recently said to me that she was taught in Alabama public school that Abraham Lincoln was “the best president ever.” That would be a good example of the consequences of what the New England Yankee conquerors labeled “reconstruction.” The truth is that Lincoln was by far the worst president in American history. He was certainly the most “reviled” (by the people of the North during his lifetime), as Larry Tagg documented in his book, The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: America’s Most Reviled President.” Thanks to the Republican party propaganda machine, which essentially monopolized American politics for the half century after the war, Lincoln was transformed from the most hated and reviled of all American politicians during his lifetime to a saint. (See The Deification of Lincoln by Ira D. Cardiff).
Here is what the state tells you to celebrate today, Lincon’s birthday: Lincon destroyed the voluntary union of the Founding Fathers and replaced it with a union held together by war and the mass murder of Southern civilians (at least fifty thousand according to Princeton historian James McPherson), turning it into something resembling the old Soviet Union more than the original American union.
The uniquely American system of federalism was destroyed along with the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution and the states’ rights of nullification and secession, and Americans became the servants rather than the masters of their own government. Government’s “just powers” no longer came from the consent of the governed, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, but from the barrel of a gun. Are you beginning to get why the state celebrates Lincoln’s birthday?
Lincoln waged war on Southern civilians for four long years, ordering the bombing and burning of American cities to the ground and rewarding the commanding generals who committed these war crimes of plundering, raping, murder, and arson with promotions and glory. The population of the South was about 9 million at the beginning of the war. Scaling the death toll for today’s U.S. population, McPherson’s estimate of 50,000 civilian deaths would be the equivalent of 1.9 million civilians being killed by the U.S. government in just four years. Coming from Lincoln cultist James McPherson, the 50,000 figure is bound to be an underestimate.
Reading books like War Crimes against Southern Civilians by Walter Brian Cisco, which is based on the U.S. government’s publication The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, one learns how more than twenty-two thousand artillery shells exploded in a six-month period in civilian-occupied Charleston, and that unexploded shells are still being discovered today. Then there is Sherman’s four-day bombardment of civilian-occupied Atlanta after the Confederate Army had left the city with as
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