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When Americans Understood the Declaration of Independence
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DiLorenzo begins by quoting a passage of the Declaration of Independence: "...And "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . ."
And that is the last of his logic, intelligence, argument -- because he goes on to attack Abraham Lincoln and the North for preventing the Southern States from leaving the Union. It appears now, in revisionist history, that "Once Lincoln manipulated South Carolinians into firing on Fort Sumter as a pretext for invading his own country..."
Lincoln manipulated nothing. He did not want to antagonize the South into voting for secession; he, as President Elect, said nothing to inflame the situation. Fort Sumter had been forcibily isolated by rebellious citizens and was low on supplies - a situation lasting for months. Eventually those rebels intiated force to overcome the fort which initiated the Civil War.
Again, in case that was missed: the South initiated force. They stated the violence. In any freedom loving law court the individual or individuals who initiate violatence are punsihed. In any society based on Libertarian values those who initiate violence are held to account. The fact is: the South wished to expand slavery and the North and Lincoln stood in the way. Had it not been for the institution of Slavery, the Civil War would not have occurred.
You will read nothing here of the horror of slavery, the torture, the rapes, the selling of children from their families. These do not concern DiLorenzo when he discusses freedom. He praises the orginial intent of Jefferson's Declaration but not Lincoln's final implementation of it via the Gettysburg address -- finally making ALL people equal. This was followed by an Amendment to the Constitution cemeting that reality.
Rothbard and DiLorenzo are so blinded by the issue of States Rights that they've overlooked individual ones. How could they not see that secession leads to more secession until we have neighbor seceding from neighbor in a chaotic world of primate armies and court systems.
Rothbard and DiLorenzo (among others at the Von Mises Institute) are not attacking Lincoln as much as the whole concept of limited government -- that is still too much government for them. They wish NO GOVERNMENT. Ron Paul, advised by many in Von Mises Institute, has agreed with them.
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The Fourth of July was not always a national celebration of the militarization of American society and of the federal government’s never-ending quest for world domination (disguised as "defending our interests abroad"). Americans did not always attend church services on the Sunday before the Fourth of July to "honor" their "military heroes" and pray that they may kill many more human beings in other countries that have done them no harm. Americans once actually read and understood the Declaration of Independence...
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