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I became
intrigued recently by the question of at what precise point the U.S.
Constitution ceased to be the constraining force behind U.S. government
actions. And, more importantly,
who it was that doomed the Constitution to its current irrelevance. Nothing ‘just happens’,
there is always some disaster maker, a real live person, lurking in
history’s gloomy shadows.
Who was this real, live person?
Much Googling
and reading resulted in the following.
As the sources were so widespread, and I am inclined to laziness, I
have not bothered to give references for some of the following. However, much of the information is
available on Google and can be easily checked. And yes, for some of you, as me, it
will arouse some initial incredulity.
I suggest that you do your own research.
Henry C.
Carey (1793 – 1879) was a doctrinaire protectionist who was the founder
of what came to be known as the American School of Economics. Whilst he acknowledged that there was
a natural dynamic that impelled people to produce and prosper, he also
believed that not all people benefited from this sort of economy. He very successfully promoted the view
that to ensure the prosperity of all it was better that the economy was
strongly controlled and directed by a central government (sound
familiar?).
Carey’s
most influential disciple in America was Abraham Lincoln for whom Carey
served as chief economic advisor both before and after his election to the
presidency. Carey was the
intellectual backbone of the political agenda of Lincoln’s Republican
Party. No one had as much
influence on Lincoln as America’s first socialist economist.
Amongst
Carey’s myriad interventionist beliefs was that protection from
overseas trade was essential to a developing industrial nation. The Southern States strongly resisted
this, to the point of threatening to secede from the Union. Not only on practical grounds based
upon their burgeoning overseas trade, but on the grounds that it totally
contravened the Constitution and was inimical to individual freedom.
Carey and
Lincoln were the successors to Thomas Jefferson’s old antagonist,
Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton had
been a strong proponent of a large and centralized form of government for
America, complete with a central bank.
Hamilton wanted to re-create the British system but without the
British. In the end
Jefferson’s view of a very limited central government prevailed with
the resultant 1776 Constitution.
Hamilton lost the intellectual battle, partly because so many people
had fled to America to get away from the curse of strong central governments,
not to mention central banks.
Henry
Carey’s economics accorded and dovetailed with Abraham Lincoln’s
desire for the establishment of an all powerful central government which
would have undisputed control over the hitherto constitutionally independent
States. On 4th March,
1861 Lincoln was elected President.
Within weeks he made a display of trying to re-provision the Federal
outpost, Fort Sumter, in South Carolina.
This was despite being advised by his top military commander, General
Scott, and most of his cabinet that he should abandon it rather than provoke
war with the Confederate States.
The trap was set and sprung.
The war began.
Lincoln’s invasion of the South was not only entirely
unconstitutional, it was an immoral and madcap endeavor that came within a
hair’s breadth of embroiling all the major world powers including
Britain, Russia, Germany and France.
On 27th
April, 1861 Lincoln completely abolished Habeas Corpus in the Union and
assumed dictatorial powers. This
is openly acknowledged, but usually excused by the ‘fact’ that he
was a ‘good’ dictator.
Many Americans at the time, from both the North and the South would
not have agreed with that assessment.
Habeas Corpus was not reinstated in America until after Lincoln was
dead. Much of the Bill of Rights
was cancelled. Southern churches
were put to the torch and priests and ministers were imprisoned for refusing
to say prayers for Lincoln… who was an atheist.
Widespread
dissent in the North against such flouting of the Constitution saw over three
hundred newspapers or journals closed down by executive order with their
offices often destroyed and their publishers imprisoned. No media dissent was permitted by
Lincoln. Even publishers who
merely advocated peaceful compromise had, at the very least, their newspapers
closed down.
“One victim of Lincoln’s suppression of Northern
newspapers was Francis Key Howard of Baltimore, the grandson of Francis Scott
Key. Howard was imprisoned
in Fort McHenry, the very spot
where his grandfather composed “The Star Spangled Banner,” after
the newspaper he edited criticized Lincoln’s decision to invade the
South without the consent of Congress…”*
No dissent
of any kind was tolerated and estimates are that up to 40,000 people in the
north were imprisoned, many based merely on suspicion of them being
Confederate States sympathizers.
Clement Vallandighan, an elected member of the Ohio Legislative
Assembly, spoke out against Lincoln’s aggression. He was arrested and deported!
Colonel John
Basil Turchin of the Union Army was put before a court-martial for allowing
his troops to rape, plunder and pillage.
After he was found guilty and discharged, Lincoln reinstated Turchin
to the military and promoted him to the rank of Brigadier General. Lincoln personally directed war
strategy including selecting his generals. In 1865 Lincoln authorized General
Grant to target civilians and infrastructure in an effort to lessen the
South’s resolve. The object
was to destroy not only the enemy, but the whole countryside that supported
the enemy. This was a hitherto
unknown tactic outside of Czarist Russia and a gross departure from the
conduct of civilized war as accepted in Europe.
Brigadier
General John Basil Turchin was born Ivan Vasilovitch Turchinoff in
Russia. He was a graduate of
Russia’s Imperial Military School and had gained extensive and brutal
military experience under the Czar.
The court-martial made him notorious and brought him to the attention
of Lincoln. Turchin became another
major influence toward Lincoln’s philosophy that the end justifies the
means.
Thousands of
women and children in the South were accordingly killed by troops under
generals such as Sherman and Sheridan.
Whole towns including Charleston were destroyed, many with all homes
individually and systematically destroyed. Hundreds of millions of dollars in
property and infrastructure were vindictively destroyed. All stock and crops were either
stolen, shot or burnt, with subsequent starvation on a mass scale.
Officer
sanctioned looting was widespread and houses were routinely stripped of everything
of value. Less than one hundred
years after the glory of the signing of the Constitution with its stress on
individual freedoms and free speech, the American ideal dissolved in Abraham
Lincoln’s bitter and depravedly conducted total war.
The War of
1861 - 1865 was not so much a war against the Confederate States, as it was a
war against anyone who disagreed with Abraham Lincoln.
In 1865 the
war ended with the Founding Father’s ideals in tatters. The strong central government that
Jefferson went to such pains to avoid was inflicted on America, and the
world’s light on the hill began its long, flickering demise. The South was in utter ruins and
didn’t recover for over one hundred years. The North was stripped of its ethical
and intellectual foundations.
John Wilkes
Booth shot Lincoln within days of the war ending. Like the hundreds of thousands of
Southerners who fought and gave their lives in the defense of
Jefferson’s ideal, his efforts were in vain. Though Booth stopped the man, the
ideas that Lincoln and Carey so successfully promulgated lived on, they still
do.
History is
always kind to the winners and the psychotic, war-criminal Abraham Lincoln,
instead of being hanged, went down in the books as an American hero complete with
fake quotes making it sound as though he was some sort of Elder
Statesman. Some were never fooled
and knew at once an ally when they saw one. Karl Marx sent Lincoln a
congratulatory letter when he was re-elected President. An odd footnote is that there is much
credible evidence, including, but not only, from his surviving family, that
John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Lincoln, survived and lived until 1903.
Both Germany
and Russia became very interested in Carey’s ideas of suppressing the
rights of minor independent states followed by their subsequent amalgamation
into a homogenized super-state.
Both gave support to Lincoln during the War For Southern
Independence. Czar Alexander 11
of Russia sent his entire Pacific and Atlantic naval fleet into U.S. waters,
and placed the Admiral of the fleet under the control of Lincoln. This effectively stopped the British
navy from supporting the South and neutralized the Confederate navy. It is an entirely reasonable and
historically ironic conjecture that without the massive support of the North
by the Russians, and more tacitly the Germans, the Confederacy would have won
the war.
Even before
the war Carey was world renowned as the intellectual force behind
Lincoln’s ambitious policies.
By the war’s end he had risen in stature to being a leading
global strategist for the American military and intelligence. The American Ambassador Cassius Clay
was instrumental in introducing the Russians to the works and ideas of Henry
Carey. After Clay made a speech at
an official function the Russian industrialists toasted the “great American economist Henry
Carey.”
In the
1850’s Henry Carey visited Russia by invitation of the Czar. The details of the trip are shrouded
in mystery. Carey was also
invited to Germany by Otto Von Bismarck and what happened there is no mystery
at all. The suppression of the
rights of the states in Germany followed. Henry Carey traveled to Germany at
least three times during the 1850’s and was instrumental in educating
and shaping the new policies of the German elite. The revolution in Germany, whereby the
loosely knit German Confederation was welded into the German Empire, was
largely attributed to Carey’s personal efforts.
By 1871 the
new Germany with a strong central government was in place. Too late America began to sense that
the emergence of what was in effect an American creation, the autocratic and
militaristic new Germany, had maybe not been such a good idea after all.
Otto Von
Bismarck immediately embarked on a program of overseas expansion which
eventually lead to WW1. During
that war 120,000 Americans were killed and almost 200,000 wounded… that
on top of the 620,000 Americans already killed in the War for Southern Independence. Henry Carey’s malign influence
wreaked havoc in America, Germany and, speculatively, Russia with the
consequent deaths of millions.
His economic ideas warped the course of history from the middle of the
nineteenth century right up to the present day.
The so
called slavery issue and Lincoln’s famous Emancipation Proclamation was
a complete red herring. The
freeing of the slaves applied neither to the Northern States, nor to those
areas of the South that were occupied by the North. The Proclamation was made at a time
when there was a real fear that the South would win. It was made for two reasons.
The first
intent was to initiate an uprising by the slaves in the unoccupied parts of
the South such that the Confederate soldiers would be forced to return home
to protect their families. The
cynicism of this move was met with outrage both in the North and South. The second was as an appeal to the
English public who abhorred slavery and would thus not support the English
governments attempts to bolster the South through military activity on the border
with Canada and through its navy.
In a letter
to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln said:
“The original proclamation has no… legal justification,
except as a military measure.”
Secretary of
State William Seward stated:
“We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where
we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them
free.”
Lincoln was
the man who began the destruction of the U.S. Constitution. Henry Carey provided the economic
system that demanded it.
Alexander Hamilton provided the philosophical justification that
supported it. There were many
others of course who contributed to the destruction, but Lincoln and Carey
were the main culprits with Hamilton in an historical supporting role.
According to one of Hamilton’s biographers, Ron Chernow, to repudiate
Hamilton’s political legacy is “to repudiate the modern
world”. Quite.
If you have
ever wondered why in the twenty-first century no one pays attention to the
Constitution, then know that Lincoln declared it completely irrelevant by
arbitrarily assuming dictatorial powers and waging war on the Confederate
States in 1861. The deadly
precedent was set.
Maybe the
following quote puts it more succinctly:
“Lincoln
was the first President of the United States who trampled on the monetary
clauses of the Constitution (in addition to trampling on the states' rights
written into the Constitution) thereby setting a fateful precedent. Woodrow
Wilson was the second, in signing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 into law,
thereby making the financing of world wars easy. F.D.Roosevelt was the third,
in confiscating the gold of the American people thereby
making government paper king. It is questionable whether Wilson and F.D.Roosevelt
could get away with their Constitutional pranks if public opinion had
not been desensitized to the manipulation, nay, to the overthrow of the
Constitution by Lincoln.
“The
falsification of the U.S. history started with the canonization of Lincoln. Hardly
a letter of the text books on the post-Lincoln history has any validity. The
villains sabotaging the Constitution, the unholy trinity of Lincoln, Wilson,
and F.D.R., are lionized and the perpetuation of omnipotent government
celebrated.”
Our
present economic and political (imperial) troubles, which can only get worse
as time goes by, are directly attributable to the dismantling of the
Constitutional safeguards against government manipulation of money, first
advocated and practiced by Lincoln. When the helpless masses of the people,
having lost their homes, their earning power, their livelihood and hope
in a bright future, cry out in despair, we should remember
and curse Lincoln who made it all possible. **
Our current
economic disaster is the inevitable result of Lincoln’s successful push
for centralized power. Thomas
Jefferson understood and predicted the problems of too centralized a power
and framed the Constitution precisely to avoid such an outcome.
To preserve
the subjugation of a conquered people it is necessary to not only destroy the
subjugated people’s sense of identity and society, but, over the course
of generations, to imbue them with the belief that they are better off the
way that they are now. Both those
prerequisites for a permanently subjugated people have now been widely
accomplished in the South. The
fact remains though that the accepted history of Lincoln and Carey’s
war as recorded in the texts is merely the justifications of the winners and
bears no regard for the truth.
By ignoring
the Constitution Lincoln destroyed the Union. After 1861 ‘The Union’
meant something completely different to that which it meant before 1861. The Constitution came to represent
something very different to the document which Thomas Jefferson and the other
Founding Fathers so carefully crafted and signed.
History is
written by the winners; they are by no means necessarily the righteous. When America emerges from the social
and financial wreckage of this current economic situation it is important that
it is understood how it all came to end up in this sorry state.
The
Constitution guaranteed the freedom of all Americans. That in turn guaranteed the unhindered
right of all people to produce and prosper. Only by first rendering null the
Constitution could individual freedom have been negated and prosperity
abolished for all but the elite.
That was accomplished by Abraham Lincoln… the man who killed the
Constitution.
Sam Mathid
August 12, 2008
* ‘The Real
Lincoln’ by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
DiLorenzo’s
book is well researched and the evidence is startling to those of us brought
up believing the propaganda. It
is also well sourced.
** Professor Antal
Fekete 11th August, 2008
And now for
something completely different:
The brilliant Professor
Emeritus Antal Fekete, economist and mathematician, is conducting a seminar
in Canberra, Australia from the 11th to the 14th
November this year. It is the
ONLY seminar anywhere in the world where all aspects of the gold and silver
basis are discussed, together with a trading system guided by the basis. Meet and hear one of the giants
of our age. Bookings for the
seminar can be made through: feketeaustralia@yahoo.com. I was privileged to attended Professor
Fekete’s seminar in Hungary in August of 2006 and to say that it was
memorable is an understatement.
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