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Lincoln’s Greatest Failure (Or, How a Real Statesman Would Have Ended Slavery

- Tom DiLorenzo -

Didn't think it would take long after the excellent movie about Lincoln was released before the neo-confederates came a running. And come a running they're coming. By the way, Lincoln the Movie is excellent history and details the struggle to abolish slavery forever in the United States with the passage of the 13th Amendment.

And then there is DiLorenzo of the Von Mises Organization: is he a neo-confederate, a racist? There is that possibility but the evidence points to extremism regarding states' rights. In any event his position is based on willful fallacy and extremely harmfull to the issue of individual rights. Is DiLorenzo an anamoly? No. His views are shared by Ron Paul and, sadly, Judge Napolitano.

The Civil War was always about slavery -- from the Missiouri Compromise of 1820 limiting the expansion of slavery to the Kansas-Nebraka Act of 1854 allowing its expansion into newly formed states. There is no denying the fact - which DiLorenzo does at every opportunity -- that the passage of the latter Act enflamed Lincoln and brought him back into politics. You see, as DiLorenzo would have you believe, slavery in the United States was NOT on a path to a quiet death. It was on the move pushed by Stephen Douglas and the Democrats. The contention by DiLorenzo and others that the North somehow pushed the South into secession is also fallicious: Southern Democrats were in control of the Presidency and Supreme Court for the majority of the early 19th Century. Nor did worldwide slavery die a quiet death as, again, DiLorenzo misrepresents: the British Navy pursued with extreme prejudice slavers on the high seas. As for slavery dying worldwide, it still exists in parts of the world.

As for the 600,000 Civil War dead, which DiLorenzo always mentions, no one at the time envisioned an extended conflict; and once the violence was initiated by the South it was a struggle to the death. DiLorenzo makes his argument from hindsight.

The views of DiLorenzo prohibit any critique of Southern slavery, of the population that supported it, of the generals and soldiers that murdered for it. Never a mention by DiLorenzo of the South's generational tortrue and rape of tens of thousands, of the forced separation of families -- mothers from children, wives from husbands -- not a godamn peep.

His blindness verges on mental disorder.

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Beginning of the headline :"Every other country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war . . . . How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans when the hatred lingered for 100 years." ~ Ron Paul to TimRussert on "Meet the Press" in 2007 The new Steven Spielberg movie about Lincoln is entirely based on a fiction, to use a mild term... Read More

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