BELATED UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY DISHONEST ABE!
February 13, 2025 in Columnists, News by RBN Staff
By Michael Gaddy | MichaelGaddy.substack.com
HE WAS NOT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT!
To say that “the constitution was fine until Lincoln” is to admit the government created by that document was written to accommodate tyrants and not to prevent tyranny and protect the rights of the people.
Was there even one of the so-called Bill of Rights that Lincoln did not violate with impunity in the North, South and Border States?
Plus, we should never forget the tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of black men, women and children who died terrible deaths in his: “Contraband Camps.’“
And what was Lincoln’s punishment for such actions?
- Proclaimed by most court historians as the greatest U.S. presidents ever.
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A huge temple in the nation’s capital.
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His likeness on money.
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Being declared a great president by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
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His likeness on Mount Rushmore.
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Had more books written about him than any other president.
So, in today’s political arena what type actions by politicians are most rewarded: protecting the Rights and privileges of the people or destroying them forever and waging a merciless war on civilians?
“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?” ~PH
“My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.” ~PH
IN GOVERNMENT AS IN EVERYWHERE, ACTIONS REWARDED ARE ACTIONS REPEATED.
Abraham Lincoln has a “Temple” to his honor in DC on the banks of the Potomac, but it is a temple to him and unrestrained government for when Lincoln was a candidate for president, twenty out of twenty-three of the ministers of his home district were opposed to him on account of his unorthodox views, which views are apparent from the following statements by Lincoln:
“When you show me, a church based upon the Golden Rule as its only creed, then I will unite with it.”
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.”
“The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
“The Churches, as such, must take care of themselves. Still, in addition to this, there is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”
“Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.”
“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.” “I never tire of reading Paine.”
“There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. It was concluded that no Christian ought to vote for me, because I belonged to no church.”
In fact, up to the time of Lincoln’s candidacy for president, there is no record of his ever having made any statement which would in any manner indicate the slightest religious belief. His earlier speeches contain no reference to a god.
Roast in hell, you petty tyrant and leader of uncivilized war against the innocent men, women, children both black and white in the North, South and Border States.
The man was the biggest racist I have never met. Just reading a quote of his will tell you how equality fared in his time and in his heart….
“ “While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races — that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
NO WORDS. Same with the Native Americans, never forget that Lincoln holds the world record for hanging 38 Sanktee Sioux in Mankato Minnesota… And Karma has it that he lost his son because of it. More on my show this Sunday!
Odd that you blame Lincoln fro what happened during the war for events that he obviously could not oversee in Minnesota. There was a huge war going on. But here is the tally: After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions but also prevented the deaths of 264 other Dakota combatants.(I actually have Indian relatives on both sides of my family, one of whom is a historian that believes Lincoln saved many of the Dakota and only punished the worst of them)
So much of what you talk about is out of context and sequence with dates. But it is true that Lincoln expressed doubts that there would be a political and social equality between blacks and whites. I guess you think DEI is the way things should be now? But you have remember that Lincoln knew very few exceptional blacks like Fredrick Douglas or Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley who were very bright and educated, and living in mostly rural Illinois at the time. As far as voting goes, even women were not allowed to vote then either.
Here are some quotes about the settlers sufferings:
https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/settlers-aftermath
There are in St. Paul at the present time, 23 widows, whose husbands were killed by the Indians. They have in the aggregate 57 children, mostly small and many of them infants. There are also four children who lost both parents. . . . There are so many to be provided for, here and elsewhere, that it is impossible to prevent suffering.”
St. Paul Daily Union, December 22, 1862
The war left an indelible mark on the region’s settlers and their descendants.
I would love to debate you on Lincoln sometime. In good spirits that is. But I do favor the “prophet of the South” Texas Governor Sam Houston, who warned his fellow southerners that “They were gambling EVERYTHING for NOTHING” and that they were going to get hurt bad.
He was right. The entire revolt was stupid!
thank you mikey!