The Truth about Lincoln

A Factual Standpoint

Yes, I came from the streets of London, England, but spent a handful of years in the United States; I came to see people here glorify Lincoln as some wonderful, amazing, caring, and ethical leader, well, sorry mates, I tend to disagree with that as its not backed up by historical facts; Truthfully, I could care less, but it became an issue when people contradict me I heard people say Lincoln was the best president America ever had, blah blah blah I dont know what the hell Im talking about, No he wasnt; Let me get straight to the point, he wasnt an ace president, he was a tyrant, yes I said tyrant. Abraham Lincoln didnt give a shite about slaves, he only cared about expanding the powers of the federal government of The United States (Aka the union), and not to mention expanding taxes from the South, which had every bloody right to secede from The Union. Now, what I say might offend you, but: For Lincolns greed for power and taxes led to a war that killed 93,000 confederate troops and 110,000 Union troops in combat, actually most of the deaths were from disease, totalling over 620,000 people. During the last couple of decades in the United States, the spin has been against waving the Confederate flag, as if its some kind of racial symbol; This is a careful plan by the Federal Government who know their greatest threat to their power are educated people willing to stand up to their quest for power. Actually, the Confederate flag is really a symbol of states rights and sovereignty, not good to here if youre Americas Department of Homeland Security eh? When you look at the truth behind the Confederate States of America, for years, the most basic lesson of the Civil war taught your empty minds that the war was a battle for slavery: The Union fought for freedom, while the Confederate States fought for slavery, aka utter rubbish. Yet, Article 1, Section 9 of the Confederate Constitution reads: : 1. the importation of Negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same. How many knew the Southern States Constitution had a provision to stop the African slave trade? None today I bet, besides the educated people who believe facts. So I think Americans should take a different look at Lincoln, lets throw out the glorified image of freedom associated with Lincoln as the Great Emancipator who kept the Union together, Rather than that rubbish, lets look how Lincoln increased slavery in the United states by ruining the point of States Rights, the Union, and creating a federal government that began looking at the states as a nation rather than Sovereign States that worked together for commerce and defence. Lincoln is the father of this Federal Government. Its been far too many years that the Confederate States have been portrayed as the antagonist (Villain), or unethical states; how could they break up the union when they didnt want to control it? In reality, which most people refuse to believe, they are the protagonist; They had every bloody right to secede from the Union and the fact that Lincoln fought a war to pull them back into Union Control is not only a violation of the Constitution specifically, but also proves Lincolns disregard of the founding fathers and suggests that Lincoln was a tyrannical bastards in his decisions. Yeah, the Confederates fired the first shots, but Lincoln made the decision to send Union Troops to Fort Sumter to bully the Confederates to surrender the fort.

The shot was consistent with Lincolns word, Lincoln said he would do whatever it took to keep the Union together, including war, but it would have to be the South that fired first. The Union troops may have not fired first, but the instigated it.

So what interest did Lincoln have in keeping the Union together? What was so important about the south that he would send the Secretary of War to Fort Sumter to agitate Confederate soldiers? The answer is not based on the moral quest to end slavery as the history books have fooled Americans in to believing. In fact, its quite the opposite as documented in a letter to Horace Greeley and Lincolns original intent as he sent troops to Fort Sumterto save the Unionnot free the slaves. Lincoln didnt care one way or another if the slaves were freed. This was about economics and of course we see the outcome of that today as the federal government continues to put the Treasury before the people. The fact is redistribution of wealth was already occurring in the United States before the Civil War, and it was done through unjust taxation; The South was exporting its agriculture and making huge profits with their crops; The Northern States found a way to sneak into the pockets of Southerners through heavy taxation. Former Vice-President John C. Calhoun put it this way, "The North had adopted a system of revenue and disbursements in which an undue proportion of the burden of taxation has been imposed upon the South, and an undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the North the South, as the great exporting portion of the Union, has in reality paid vastly more than her due proportion of the revenue." This is the main reason the South left the union. It had nothing to do with slavery. The issue of slavery transferred the South from the protagonist to the antagonist in our history books. Under the Bill of Rights, the South had every right to escape this unfair taxation through secession, just like any state has the right to leave the union today. Notice how the federal government and the mainstream media brainwash people today into believing secession is bad. In fact, when the taxes from the South dried up in Northern states, things became dire for the remaining United States. A March 1861 New York Evening Post describes just how bad it got once the taxes dried up from Southern States. That either the revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the Confederate, or the port must be closed to importations from abroad, is generally admitted. If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government; the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe. There will be nothing to furnish means of subsistence to the army; nothing to keep our navy afloat; nothing to pay the salaries of public officers; the present order of things must come to a dead stop. The tariffs imposed on the South, affectionately known as the "Tariff of Abomination" pushed by Henry Clay ranged from 20 to 30%. When Lincoln took office he immediately raised these tariffs through the Morrill Tariff Act, and the South began their secession; There is an amazing irony between Lincoln and Barack Obama that goes much farther than the role of Great Emancipator and free black man, which Obama played upon prior to his inauguration.

Just the fact Obama identifies with Lincoln proves Obama knows little about American history in terms of black history but how much he does know about getting away with unconstitutional actions. Obama's chosen connection to Abraham Lincoln is a slap in the face to all black Americans. The irony of the connection is of course the division Obama creates and the discussions of secession taking place in America over more federal controls, bailouts of fiscally irresponsible states through taxation of other states, and of course higher taxes. Obama is the new Lincoln in many ways. There is a lesson to learn in this. If you want to take control back from the modern-day oppressive American Government, secession may be the best economic choice. When taxes dry up for the federal government, they will have a hard time operating just like they did in 1861, It should remain a viable choice for any state that has practiced fiscal responsibility and Constitutional law. Not much has changed in the federal tax practices They just have new names for the taxes. The real truth of the Civil War is the North should be viewed as the patriots and colonists viewed Mother England during the Revolutionary War. The myth that Abraham Lincoln cared about black people is one of the largest lies of the Civil War period of American history, Its well documented Lincoln cared less about the issue of slavery. On August 29, 1862, New Yorker Horace Greeley wrote an editorial in The New York Tribune called The Prayer of the 20 Millions. In his editorial, Greeley wrote the reasons why slavery must end in the United States; Greeley believed ending slavery would weaken the south to end the war and help the economies of the northern states He did gain the attention of President Lincoln, Lincoln responded:

Hon. Horace Greeley: Dear Sir. I have just read yours of the 19th addressed to myself through the New York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 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 coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I don't 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. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be error; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of Official duty: and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. Lincoln

A. Lincoln Words covered up by Lincolns Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln cared nothing about the slavesonly saving the Union, even it meant violating the Constitution which he did.

It gets worse for Lincoln in a tyrannical way, Lincoln also suspended Habeas corpus laws; He made slaves out of Americans by arresting them without warrants, They were held in jail without access to a judge to decide if they were guilty beyond any claims made by the Union under Lincolns leadership (We hear possibilities of this in America today.); Lincoln locked up thousands of people who he considered threats without due processno trial. Lincoln arrested political opponents, southern sympathisers, and anyone suspected of disloyalty to the Union. The real Lincoln appears more like Josef Stalin rather than the image taught in school that earned him a place on the five-dollar bill and a monument in Washington DC. Lincoln also shut down newspapers that disagreed with his policies; Over 300 papers were censored through closure under Lincolns leadership. Lincoln turned into an enemy of the First Amendment! Lincoln helped mold this country today into an oppressive state.

In the book, His Dark Side --Lincoln's Illegal Imprisonment of Baltimore's Mayor & Legislators by Chet Dembeck examines the arrests ordered by President Lincoln of key Baltimore political opponents; Even with a Supreme Court decision with an opinion written by Chief Justice Roger Taney informing Lincoln he was in violation of the Constitution, Lincoln ignored Taneys opinion and continued arresting political opponents. Lincolns Union troops continued to arrest political enemies. In the end, the Emancipation Proclamation became nothing more than rhetoric geared to save Lincolns image and the fact he violated the Constitution to save the Union. The proclamation is nothing more than a mask to cover the truth of Lincolns intentions and hide the fact that over 600,000 Americans died Nothing good came out of the Civil War because Federalism died. Most Americans today are blind to the true fact: Lincoln was a 1860s tyrant, who was glorified by the government of The United States as someone who saved the Union and whom was ethical he didnt have any true morals, he was the Mitt Romney of the 1860s, out for peoples money and not caring about how they feel. NOTE: If youre still arrogant and ignorant enough to disagree with me, check out this link: http://www.squidoo.com/abraham-lincoln