AL-01 A  TRUE  ESTIMATE  OF ABRAHAM  LINCOLN

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Chapter 1

            The life of Abraham Lincoln, as it is written and accepted today, is false history.  The South can never have justice until he is dethroned, and he can only be dethroned by proving from absolute authority these falsehoods to be false.  He must have his rightful place in history if the South ever expects to have her rightful place in history.  Whence may we look to prove these teachings of present day to be false?  The answer, “To Northern authority.”

            Was Abraham Lincoln a friend to the South or was he a friend to the slaves of the South?  If one studies the history of the War 1861- 1865, it will be found that he ws not a friend of the South or of Negroes up to the time of his assassination.  Then why could it be thought that he would be a friend later had he lived, rather than that he would have carried out the schemes of conquest by further unconstitutional methods and falsehoods?  Let us remember his double dealing with Virginia after the fall of Richmond.

            Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States by an avowedly anti-South party without an electoral vote from the South.  In his campaign speeches he had promised everything that any party or section demanded – showing that his promises could not be relied upon. (Sounds like that usurper in D.C. now. Change?  CLM)  Hear what he said in a speech delivered on 27 January 1837:

            “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation be others.  As the patriots of ‘76 to the support of the Declaration of Independence, and so to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor - let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of hus own and children’s liberty.  Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping baby that prattles on her lap; let ut be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.  And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.”

            This was a fine speech.  See what Lincoln said, and then see what Lincoln did.  How could he be trusted?  There are ten violations of the Constitution by Abraham Lincoln:  Coercion in 1861. Article IV;  Laws of Neutrality – Trent Affair.  Article VI, Clause – 2;  (3) Violation of International Law; Writ of habeas Corpus Suspended. Article 1, Section IX, Clause 2; War Declared without the consent of congress, 1861.  Section 1, Section VIII, Clauses 11, 12; Emancipation Proclamation. Article IV, Section III, Clause 2; West Virginia Made A State. Article IV, Section III, Clause 1; Freedom of Speech Denied.  Vallandigham imprisoned in Ohio. Amendment One; Blockading parts of States that were held by the Federal Government to be Still in the Union; Liberty of the press Denied. Amendment One; Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law. Article IV, Section II, Clause 3.

 

            How did Lincoln’s actions tally with his words?  Was this honest dealing ?  Let us quote the admissions of Lincoln’s own contemporaries in the North.  Godwin, of The Nation, says: “The first real breach in the Constitution was President Lincoln’s using his war power to abolish slavery.”

            Thaddeus Stevens Stated: “I will not stultify myself by supposing that Mr. Lincoln has any warrant in the Constitution for dismembering Virginia.”

            A. K. McClure, his friend, said: “Mr. Lincoln swore to obey the Constitution, but in eighteen  months violated it by his Emancipation Proclamation.” (1) James Ford Rhodes said: “There was no authority for the Proclamation by the Constitution and laws – nor was there any statute that warranted it”. (2) Wendell Phillips at the Cooper Institute, said: “I judge Mr. Lincoln by his acts, his violations of the law, his overthrow of liberty in the Northern States.  I judge Mr. Lincoln by his words, his deeds, and so judging him, I am unwilling to trust Abraham Lincoln with the future of this country.” “[looks like obama all over again. Chet]”;  Charles Sumner said: “when Lincoln reinforced Fort Sumter and called for 75,000 men without the consent of Congress, it was the greatest breach ever made in the Constitution, and would hereafter give the president the liberty to declare war whenever he wished without the consent of Congress.  Percy Gregg said: “Lincoln never hesitated to violate the Constitution when he so desired.  The Chief Justice testified to this.  Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in 1861; he allowed West Virginia to be formed from Virginia contrary to the Constitution; he issued his Emancipation Proclamation without consulting his Cabinet and in violation of the Constitution.

            Lincoln had no respect for the decisions of the Supreme Court, the highest law in the land.  As J. G. Holland pointed out; The South stood by the decisions of the Supreme Court – the North did not and Lincoln did not.(3) Abraham Lincoln himself stated in his Cooper Institute speech: “In spite of Judge Taney’s decision, Congress did not have a right to prohibit slavery in the territories.”  In his Inaugural Address, he said: “if the decisions of the Supreme Court are irrevocably fixed, then the people cease to be their own masters, and practically resign their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

            To pander to the South’s vote, he openly said that any state had the constitutional right to secede if her rights were interfered with.  Yet as soon as he was elected, he denied this and began to plan to coerce the seceding states back into the Union.  He had openly said that coercion was not constitutional, and yet he called for 75,000 men to begin the coercion act without the consent of his Cabinet or Congress.  He gave as his excuse that he could not afford to do without the revenue from the Southern states, and must prevent their withdrawal, right or wrong.  This was the cunning that Seward said amounted to genuis.

While insisting that the Southern states were still in the Union, on 19 July 1861, Lincoln declared a blockade, which brought untold suffering and privation on the people of the South.  No Nation can blockade her own ports. When England and France declared neutrality, fearing they would later acknowledge the seceding states as a Confederacy, issued his Emancipation Proclamation in the hope conciliating them, though he acknowledged that he thought “it would result in the massacre of the women and children in the South. [he thot the slaves wood revolt.A littile humour hear. CLM]

            When the South, not desiring war, made every effort for peace, he blocked every effort that was made.   When he learned of the Peace Convention presided over by ex-president Tyler, he sent Salmon P. Chase to represent him, instructed to vote against every compromise, especially against the return of fugitive slaves.  And yet this was the man who had said in Peoria, Illinois in 1854: “The slaveholder has a legal and moral right to his slaves.  Fairly and fully I will give them any legislation for reclaiming their fugitive slaves.  The master has the right to seize the runaway slave in every state in the Union.”

notes:

1. Lincoln and men of the war time;

2. History of the United States, Vol. IV;

3. Life of Lincoln (1865), pager 284;

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Chapter 2 of 14

            When the Virginia Convention pleaded for peace, he sent word by Colonel Baldwin to say, “it is too late for peace.”  He did not send word why it was too late, for at that time four expeditions were on the way to Sumter and Pickens to force war.  He refused to see the Peace Commissioners sent by the Confederate government to plead for – peace but through Seward and Judge Campbell he kept them deceived until war had been declared.  Abraham Lincoln did not want peace for he had promised coercion, which meant war.  He knew, too, that the South would never stand for his administration.

            What were those four expeditions he had already sent?  Mr. Johnstone’s Truth of the war Conspiracy of 1861(1) will tell you all about it.  Read it.  An armistice had been entered into between South Carolina and the United States government on 6 December 1860.  A similar armistice had been entered between Florida and the United States government on 29 January 1861.  These armistices agreed that the forts, Sumter and Pickens, should neither be garrisoned nor provisioned as long as these armistices continued in force.  Papers to this effect had been filed in the United States Army and Navy departments and Abraham Lincoln knew this – hence his secret orders.  To violate an armistice is a treacherous act of war.  This is acknowledged by all nations.  Before his inauguration Lincoln had sent a confidential message to General Winfield Scott to be ready, when his inauguration on 4 March 1861 should take place, to hold or retake the forts.(2) He had in mind then to break this armistice.  One of the agreements of an armistice was that no person, friend or foe, could visit the forts while the terms of the armistice were in force.  President Lincoln sent Lieutenant Worden with a secret message to Captain Adams at fort Pickens.  This was an act of a spy.

On March 12^th, President Lincoln directed Montgomery Blair, one of his Cabinet, to telegraph to G. V. Fox to come to Washington to arrange for reinforcing Fort Sumter. Fox was sent on March 15^th and arranged with Anderson for reinforcement.  This was an act of a spy.  Lamon had also been sent secretly to Charleston to confer with Anderson.  This was also the act of a spy.

            On March 29^th, Abraham Lincoln ordered three ships with 300 men and provisions to be ready to go to Fort Sumter – all orders were marked private. On April 1^st, he sent a secret message to the Commandant at Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York to fit out the Powhatan without delay.  In this message, he said, “You will under no circumstances communicate to the Navy Department this fact.(3)  A fourth expedition was secretly sent to Pensacola [In Florida of all places. CLM) under Lieutenant Porter on April 7^th on which date the three vessels were directed to go to Fort Sumter.  On the same day, President Lincoln directed Seward to say to the Peace Commissioners, “no design to reinforce Fort Sumter.”  In short, their were four expeditions ordered to garrison and provision Forts Sumter and Pickens while the armistice was yet in force.  Not until sufficient time had elapsed to suppose that the vessels had landed were the PEACE Commissioners informed of these facts.

            Fortunately, a storm delayed some of the ships.  When the Confederate government was informed of this treachery, permission was given to General Beaugard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter.  Anderson was ordered to surrender the fort.  He refused until he could receive orders from the United States authorities.  General Beauregard sent word that unless the fort was surrendered within a certain time, it would be fired upon.  It was not and the shot was fired, and the war began.  Who was responsible?  No one but Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, who on his own authority, without the consent of Cabinet or Congress, declared war by breaking the armistice agreed upon and forcing the Confederate troops to fire.  This is the truth of the matter as the War Records at Washington reveal it.(4)  Hallam, in his Constitutional History, rightly says: “The aggressor in war is not the first that uses force, but the first who renders force necessary.”  President Lincoln sent a note to each member of the Cabinet asking advice about holding Fort Sumter.  Two may be said to have voted for it.  Blair favored it; Chase was doubtful.  He said, “I will oppose any attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter, if it means war.”  However, the others decidedly  voted against it.  Notice that Lincoln did not call a Cabinet meeting and he did not call his Congress.  Why?  He knew that neither would favor war.  Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, said: “There was not a man in the Cabinet that did not know that an attempt to reinforce Sumter would be the first blow of war.”  And again he said: “Of all the Cabinet Blair only is in favor of reinforcing Sumter.”  William Seward, Secretary of State, said: “Even preparation to reinforce will precipitate war.  I would instruct Anderson to return from Sumter.”  General Braxton Bragg said: “They have placed an engineer officer at Fort Pickens to violate, as I consider, our agreement not to reinforce.”  Hosmer, in his History of the American Nation wrote: “The determination expressed by Lincoln in his Inaugural Address to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the United States precipitated the outbreak, and his determination to collect duties and imports was practically an announcement of an offensive war.”  The New York Express said: The people petitioned and pleaded, begged and implored Lincoln and Seward to be heard before matters were brought to a bloody extreme, but their petitions were spurned and treated with contemp.”(6) In The Opening of the Twentieth Century, these words are found: “The war was inaugurated by the North on an unconstitutional basis, and defended on an unconstitutional basis.”  The New York Herald stated: “We have no doubts Mr. Lincoln wants the Cabinet at Montgomery (Alabama) to take the initiative by capturing the two forts in its waters, for it would give him the opportunity of throwing upon the Southern Confederacy the responsibility of commencing hostilities.  But the country and posterity will hold him just as responsible as if he struck the first blow.”(7) Again the New York Herald stated: “Unless Mr. Lincoln’s Administration makes the first demonstration and attack, President Davis says there will be no bloodshed.  With Mr. Lincoln’s Administration, therefore, rests the responsibility of precipitating a collision, and the fearful evils of protracted war.”(8) Governor Moore of Alabama Said: “I have had a conference with Secretary Mallory of Florida, and Secretary Fitzpatrick of Alabama, in which they informed me that they and Secretary Slidell had a personal interview with the President and the Secretary of the Navy and were assured by them that no attack upon Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens or any excuse given for the shedding of blood during the present administration.”  Stephen Douglas Said: “Lincoln is trying to plunge the country into a cruel war as the surest means of destroying the Union upon the plea of enforcing the laws and protecting public property.”  Zack Chandler wrote to Governor Blair: “The manufacturing states think a war will be awful, but without a little blood-letting the Union will not be worth a curse.”(9) Benjamin Williams, of Lowell, Massachusetts, said: “The South was invaded and a war of subjugation was begun by the Federal government against the seceding states in amazing disregard of the foundation principle of its existence – AND THE South accepts the contest forced upon her with a courage characteristic of this proud-spirited people.”  Hortons  History states: “The first gun of  the war was the gun put into that war fleet that sailed against Charleston.  The first gun fired at Fort Sumter  was the first gun in self-defense.  This is the simple fact stripped of all nonsense with which it has been surrounded by abolitionists.(10.)  J. D. Holland writes: “Up to the fall of Sumter Lincoln had no basis for action.  If he raised an army that would have been an act of hostility that would have been coercion.  A thousand Northern papers would have pounced on him as a provoker of war.  After Sumter fell he could declare war.”

            It is true many causes had led to the secession of the states, but none of these would have declared war.  The South did want war and the North did not want war, so Abraham Lincoln was responsible foe the crisis that forced war in order to please his anti-South party . One cannot truthfully deny this - the facts of history prove it.  Mr. Lincoln had pledged his party, if elected he would, in case the Southern states seceded, coerce them back into the Union.”(12) General Donn Piatt said: “Lincoln’s low estimate of humanity blinded him to

the South.  He could not understand that men could fight for a principle.  He thought this movement on the part of the South was only a political game of bluff.  It was said, ‘The South Can’t fight, she has no resources.’ ”(13)   Hannibal Hamlin said; “If they fight they must come to us for arms, and they must come without money to pay for them.”  Lincoln tried in every way to quiet the fears of his constituents, but when the states did secede he remembered his promise to coerce.

            The leaders of the North, strong, just and brainy men, who while differing with the South along slavery, and other lines political and commercial, stood for the Constitution and stood by the decisions of the Supreme Court, and would never have taken up arms to coerce the Southern states.  But when the cry was raised, “The flag has been fired upon”, they felt that their refusal to enlist might misjudged, and many hired substitutes to take their place.  There was nothing said when said when the flag was fired upon on the Star of the West in Buchanan’s Administration.  It was simply an excuse of Lincoln’s to fire the men of the North to take up arms.  The following will show the spirit of the true men of the North at that time: “A committee was appointed to draw up resolutions to present to the Massachusetts Legislature when sectional feeling was at its height.  They calmly and deliberately weighed the arguments on the side of the [Southern only. CLM] slaveholders, and just as calmly and deliberately weighed those on the side of the Abolitionists.  Then they came to a conclusion and

said; ‘Nothing which is not founded upon the eternal principles of truth and justice can ever long prevail against an irresistible force of public disapprobation.  Your committee feel that the conduct of the Abolitionists is not only wrong in policy but erroneous in morals.’

            “Your committee are determined to fulfill their duty to the state and to our common country in the most firm and faithful manner.  In remembering that while they are men of Massachusetts, they are incapable of meanly forgetting that they also are Americans.”

            George Lunt said: “Abraham Lincoln was not the choice of the people of the North.  The Republican Party put him power, because he seemed to afford the prospect of more malleable material for their purposes.”(14)   This anti-South party wanted a man from the lower class to humiliate the upper class.  The lower class voted for him because they were of his class, and the lower class are glorifying him today [wow..shades of the naacp. CLM] because they sympathize with him.

            Lincoln hated the aristocrats, whether they were slaveholders or not.  This statement has been denied, but a man who headed the list of subscribers to John Brown ‘s raid in Kansas and Virginia, advocating murder and arson, who telegraphed congratulations to Sherman, Sheridan, Grant, and Hunter for cruel treatment of women and children, who stood for destroying all food supplies, leaving both White and Black to starve, who allowed the women of New Orleans, Louisiana to be treated with such indignity by the order of [spoons] Benjamin Butler, and who allowed Negro troops to guard and fire upon Southern prisoners, could not have had love abounding hate in his heart for the South.(16)   Nor could a man who advocated Parson Brownlow for the Governor of a Southern state, after hearing his New York speech, love the people he wished to put him in to rule over.  This is what he said: “If I had the power I would arm every wolf, panther, catamount and tiger in the mountains of America; every negro in the Southern Confederacy, and every devil in hell and turn them on the rebels in the South.  I would like to see Richmond and Charleston captured by negro troops commanded by Butler the Beast and driven inti the Gulf of Mexico to be drowned as the devils did the hogs in the Sea of Galilee” (LONG AND LOUD APPLAUSE. Emphasis supplied by CLM)   And after, when he was made Governor of Tennessee, he said: “If I could I would divide the army going South into three divisions. 1^st, with knives to do the killing; 2^nd, with torches dipped in spirits of turpentine to do the burning; and 3^rd, with compasses to divide the land.”

            Had Abraham Lincoln forgotten his Inaugural address of March, 1861?  “The republican Party placed on the platform for my acceptance and as a law to themselves and me, the clear and resolution which I now read: ‘Resolved: that the maintenance of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgement exclusively, is essential to that balance of power in which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend: and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed forces of the soil of any state, or territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.’‘ these messages of congratulations for lawless invasion of the South by armed forces make Abraham Lincoln a criminal by his own definition.

 

Notes:

1. Curryville, Georgia;

2. Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hon. E. B. Washburn, dated Springfield, Ill., 21 December 1860;

3. War of The Rebellion Records, Volume IV, p. 109;

4. Series 1, Volume IV, pages 90-259;

5. Volume XX, page 20;

6. 15 April 1861;

7. 6 April 1861.

8. 7 April 1861;

9. Quoted by S. D. Carpenter, the logic of history (1864), page 138;

10. Page 109.

11.Life of Lincoln (1865).

12. The Makers of America, page 270;

13. Reminiscences of Lincoln;

14. George Lunt, Chairman;

15. Origins of the late war (1866)

 

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Ch. 3 OF 14

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Abraham Lincoln was not humane in his treatment of the Andersonville prisoners. He refused medicine, making it contraband of war – medicine that was necessary to relieve their sufferings – and even refused to relieve them from their horrid congested condition when the Southern authorities were willing to send them home without exchange. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army, by a word he could have done this.

Abraham Lincoln indicted for cruelty to our soldiers in Southern prisons. He is held responsible for it all.

Abraham Lincoln could be indicted and arraigned for the crime against justice and humanity. There is not an impartial jury in the land that would hesitate to pronounce him guilty of murder in the first degree. He now stands before the great court of the Nation for that crime and other offenses against the laws and liberties of the country. The people will soon render against him the verdict of guilty, and the sentence of banishment and indelible disgrace will be passed an executed upon him. (4)Percy Greg said:

Lincoln’s order that Confederate commissions or letters of marquee granted to private or public ships should be disregarded and their crews treated as pirates, and all medicines declared contraband of war, violated every rule of civilized war and outraged the conscience of Christendom.

Lincoln never hesitated to violate the Constitution when he so desired. The Chief Justice testified to this. Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in 1861; he allowed West Virginia to be formed from Virginia contrary to the Constitution; he issued the Emancipation Proclamation without consulting his Cabinet and in violation of the Constitution.

He did not interfere when Seward refused to let the Southern men in Northern prisons have the $85,000 sent by the women of England in loving sympathy with the Southern prisoners.

Abraham Lincoln was not humane in his treatment of those Democrat suspects in regard to freedom of speech – Vallandigham of Ohio, for instance. He said the South was right – that was all.

Mr. Lincoln stands responsible for the casting into prisons of the United States on orders as arbitrary as the Letters de Cachet of Louis XIV of France, instead of their arrest as in Great Britain in her crisis on legal arrests. (2)

Frederick Bancroft said:

Some of the features of these arbitrary arrests bore a striking resemblance to the odious institutions of the ancient regime of France – the Bastille and Letters de Cachet. (3)

Judge Jeremiah Black, in his Essays, says:

Of the wanton cruelties that Lincoln’s Administration has afflicted upon unoffending citizens, I have neither space, nor time, to paint them. Since the fall of Robespierre nothing has occurred to case such disrepute on Republican institutions. (4)

In Galena, Illinois, Mr. Lincoln urged the Hon. Madison Y. Johnson to join the Abolition party. He declined. Mr. Lincoln told him he could have anything he desired if he would consent, for he regretted to part with him more than any man in that section of the state. Mr. Johnson replied that his political views like his religious views were not a matter of barter. A little later Mr. Johnson was arrested on a telegraphic dispatch signed by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of war, without any cause being assigned and he was sent a thousand miles away and incarcerated in the dark walls of an American Bastille, put in a low, dirty, ill-ventilated room, and closely guarded and all personal things taken from him. To enter that fort was equivalent to being dead to the outside world. It was never known what caused his arrest. No charge was ever brought against him, and all that ever be learned was that the act was directed by the President himself as a military necessity. (5) Many instances of this kind can be given of the injustices of such arrests of Democrat suspects at the time. (6)

NOTES:

1. NEW York Herald, 29 October, 1864.

2. James Ford Rhodes, History, Volume III, page 232.

3. Life of Seward (1900), Volume II, page 254.

4. Same, but on page 153.

5. State of Illinois, Supreme Court, 3rd Grand Division, April Term A. D. 1866.

6. John A. Marshall, American Bastille (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Thomas W. Hartley and Company, 1881). This 778 page volume is now available in a reprint edition through Crown Rights Book Company (see address on page 6 of the present work).

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Ch. 4 OF 14

Please Forward.

Abraham Lincoln was not humane in his treatment of the Andersonville prisoners. He refused medicine, making it contraband of war – medicine that was necessary to relieve their sufferings – and even refused to relieve them from their horrid congested condition when the Southern authorities were willing to send them home without exchange. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army, by a word he could have done this.

Abraham Lincoln indicted for cruelty to our soldiers in Southern prisons. He is held responsible for it all.

Abraham Lincoln could be indicted and arraigned for the crime against justice and humanity. There is not an impartial jury in the land that would hesitate to pronounce him guilty of murder in the first degree. He now stands before the great court of the Nation for that crime and other offenses against the laws and liberties of the country. The people will soon render against him the verdict of guilty, and the sentence of banishment and indelible disgrace will be passed an executed upon him. (4)Percy Greg said:

Lincoln’s order that Confederate commissions or letters of marquee granted to private or public ships should be disregarded and their crews treated as pirates, and all medicines declared contraband of war, violated every rule of civilized war and outraged the conscience of Christendom.

Lincoln never hesitated to violate the Constitution when he so desired. The Chief Justice testified to this. Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in 1861; he allowed West Virginia to be formed from Virginia contrary to the Constitution; he issued the Emancipation Proclamation without consulting his Cabinet and in violation of the Constitution.

He did not interfere when Seward refused to let the Southern men in Northern prisons have the $85,000 sent by the women of England in loving sympathy with the Southern prisoners.

Abraham Lincoln was not humane in his treatment of those Democrat suspects in regard to freedom of speech – Vallandigham of Ohio, for instance. He said the South was right – that was all.

Mr. Lincoln stands responsible for the casting into prisons of the United States on orders as arbitrary as the Letters de Cachet of Louis XIV of France, instead of their arrest as in Great Britain in her crisis on legal arrests. (2)

Frederick Bancroft said:

Some of the features of these arbitrary arrests bore a striking resemblance to the odious institutions of the ancient regime of France – the Bastille and Letters de Cachet. (3)

Judge Jeremiah Black, in his Essays, says:

Of the wanton cruelties that Lincoln’s Administration has afflicted upon unoffending citizens, I have neither space, nor time, to paint them. Since the fall of Robespierre nothing has occurred to case such disrepute on Republican institutions. (4)

In Galena, Illinois, Mr. Lincoln urged the Hon. Madison Y. Johnson to join the Abolition party. He declined. Mr. Lincoln told him he could have anything he desired if he would consent, for he regretted to part with him more than any man in that section of the state. Mr. Johnson replied that his political views like his religious views were not a matter of barter. A little later Mr. Johnson was arrested on a telegraphic dispatch signed by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of war, without any cause being assigned and he was sent a thousand miles away and incarcerated in the dark walls of an American Bastille, put in a low, dirty, ill-ventilated room, and closely guarded and all personal things taken from him. To enter that fort was equivalent to being dead to the outside world. It was never known what caused his arrest. No charge was ever brought against him, and all that ever be learned was that the act was directed by the President himself as a military necessity. (5) Many instances of this kind can be given of the injustices of such arrests of Democrat suspects at the time. (6)

NOTES:

1. NEW York Herald, 29 October, 1864.

2. James Ford Rhodes, History, Volume III, page 232.

3. Life of Seward (1900), Volume II, page 254.

4. Same, but on page 153.

5. State of Illinois, Supreme Court, 3rd Grand Division, April Term A. D. 1866.

6. John A. Marshall, American Bastille (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Thomas W. Hartley and Company, 1881). This 778 page volume is now available in a reprint edition through Crown Rights Book Company (see address on page 6 of the present work).

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Ch. # 5           

 

            The South has always resented the falsehoods that have entered the biographies of Lincoln since his assassination.  Those who knew him in life knew him best.

            People found in Lincoln before his death nothing remarkably good or great, but on the contrary found in him the reverse of goodness or greatness.

            Lincoln as one of Fame’s immortals does not appear in the Lincoln of 1861.(1)   Had Lincoln lived could he have justified the loss of more than a million lives and the destruction of more than eight billions of dollars of property on a Constitutional basis?  Of course he could not, and would not have been considered worthy of the honors heaped on him because of his martyrdom.

            I hear of Lincoln and read of him in eulogies and biographies and fail to recognize the man I knew in private life before he became President of the United States.(2) When dealing with the Border States, Lincoln said, “Slavery is not to be interfered with.”  When dealing with the Republican Party, he said, “This country cannot remain half slave and half free.” When dealing with the Abolitionists, he said, “This war is against slavery.”  However, he sent word to Benjamin Butler in New Orleans, “This war is not to free the slaves.”

            Simeon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, wrote General Butler: “President Lincoln desires the right to hold slaves to be fully recognized.  The war is prosecuted for the Union; hence no question concerning slavery will arise.”

            When dealing with foreign nations, Lincoln said, “The slaves must be emancipated.”  When speaking as he thought to please the South, he said, “I have no desire to free the slave.”  “I have no Constitutional right to free the slaves.”  “If I free the slaves they must be segregated.”

            Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, said: “How can we justify the acts of Mr. Lincoln’s administration?”  An unconstitutional policy called for an unconstitutional coercion.  An unconstitutional coercion called for an unconstitutional  war.  An unconstitutional war called for an unconstitutional despotism.  Authority uncontrolled and unlimited by men, by Constitution, by Supreme Court, or by law was Lincoln’s war policy.(3)

            Abraham Lincoln did not hesitate to violate the Constitution at any time.  Nor did he hesitate to say that he would not abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court has always been acknowledged to be the highest tribunal of the land by all loyal to the Constitution.  Did not John Fremont say that Abraham Lincoln, with selfish disregard for the Constitution, violated the freedom of the press?  Did not Chief Justice Taney say that the President had unconstitutionally suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

            When President Davis sent James M. Mason, of Virginia, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, to England to place the Confederacy in its true light before the European nations, were not the Commissioners seized and taken from the ship Trent and imprisoned at Fort Warren—thus violating the International Law of Neutrality?  Did Abraham Lincoln think it wrong to violate the Laws of Neutrality?  (Sounds like a real bully to me. Clmsr) Not at all, but he sent Captain Wilkes, the officer who seized the Commissioners, a gold medal as a reward.  Had Seward not later realized what he had done, and the danger of offending England, and sent England a hasty apology, there is no telling what the consequences would have been.

            Lothrop tells in his book that Seward could not conceal his gratification and approval of the act.  McClellan was sent for and asked his opinion, and McClellan said: “Either you must surrender those prisoners or you will have war with England, and war with England means we cannot hope to keep the South in the Union.”(4)

            This put a new look on the subject and Seward became less joyous.  Captain Wilkes had undoubtedly violated International Law and had offered a gross insult to England.  President Lincoln, the Cabinet, and Congress, instead of rebuking him, had rewarded him for it.  The press and the pulpit had applauded him for it.  The authorities at Washington Said: “We will arbitrate the matter.”  England was in no humor to arbitrate.  Her ultimatum: “You surrender those prisoners and, make an apology.”  Only seven days were given to decide the matter.  And if in seven days that matter was not decided, Lord Lyons was ordered to close the ligation, remove the archives, notify the British Atlantic fleet, and return home.

            Exuberance left the Cabinet — shame and humiliation followed.  Seward shut himself in his room, barred the door against interruption, and began his apology.(5)  The United States had been foremost in resisting right of search.  She had made it a cause of war in 1812.  She demanded at the cannon’s mouth “ the right of friendly ships to pass unquestioned on the way of nations— the right of a neutral flag to protect everything not a contraband of war.”  England remembered this and the British Lion was roused and America had to act quickly.  Southern men were back of the demand in 1812 and no roar of the British Lion had any effect then because they stood for what was right.

            What was Seward’s answer when he came out of retirement?  “The four persons now held in military custody at Fort Warren will be cheerfully liberated.  Your lordship will indicate a time for receiving them.”  What a humiliation that must have been to the Cabinet!  Now after Lincoln, without the consent of Cabinet or Congress—just on his own responsibility—had violated the Constitution by so many illegal acts, he felt it wise to call Congress to meet in order to have these illegal acts legalized.  He admitted every one of these acts and admitted that they were illegal.  However, the Congress refused to legalize crime.  The proposed (as submitted by Lincoln) Joint Resolution read thus: “Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: THAT all the extraordinary acts, proclamations, and orders herein before mentioned be and of the same are approved, and declared to be in all respects legal and valid to the same, and with the same effect as if they had been issued and done under the previous and express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.”

            The four secret expeditions to break the armistices must have been included in the expression “extraordinary acts,” as they are not otherwise hinted at.

            President Lincoln and his Cabinet tried and tried again to get the Joint Resolution passed, but Congress refused, and it has not been passed to this day.

            The South is still bearing onus of the Andersonville horrors—but as the Hon. George Christian has said: “Mr. Lincoln was directly responsible for all the sufferings and deaths of prisoners on both sides during the war.”  The orders given by the Confederate government was that the prisoners were to have the same rations in the same quantity and quality of the Confederacy.  The hospitals were to be placed in every respect upon the same footing as those of the Confederacy.

            When the stockade at Andersonville, built for 10,000 men, was overcrowded  with 30,000 because of the refusal on the part of Northern authority to exchange prisoners, disease broke out, and the South having no medicine, for the Federal Government had made medicine contraband of war for the first time in civilized warfare, what could be expected but suffering and death?

            Special messengers were sent to Mr. Lincoln to intercede in behalf of these poor dying men.  He refused to see the messengers or to hear their messages.  Some of the prisoners themselves were sent to intercede but their request was not heard.  Finally the Northern authorities urged that they send through the lines these men ten to fifteen thousand at a time, without exchange, and this was refused.  As a last resort some of the prisoners were marched to the Florida line and left there.  The surrender came fortunately just at this time.

            Charles A. Dana, Secretary of War — no friend of the South, for he was responsible for allowing the shackles to be put on President Davis—said: “The evidence must be taken as conclusive.  It proves that it was not the Confederate authorities who insisted on keeping our prisoners in distress, want and disease, but the Commander-in-Chief of our own Army.”

            Who was this Commander-in-Chief?  Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

           

Notes:1.  James Schouler, History of the United States, Volume VI, Pg. 21.

2.  Piatt, Reminiscences of Lincoln, Page 21.

3.  Address delivered at Chicago, Illinois, June 1902.

4.  Page 325.

5.  Ibid, page 330.

 

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Ch. 7   Abraham Lincoln is held up as a great prohibitionist.  He was not.  While never a drunkard himself, he did not hesitate to make others drunk.  On 6 March 1833, Lincoln had a Saloon License issued under the name of Berry & Lincoln.  This license was certified to by Charles E. Apel, County Clerk of Sangamon County, Illinois, 25 April 1908.  They were allowed to sell whiskey, rum, wine, Holland gin, apple, peach, and French brandy.  The bond is now in existence signed by Abraham Lincoln.

            Some will argue that it was quite common for taverns and inns to have saloons connected with them in Lincoln’s time.  So it was, but the saloon keeper was never held up as a prohibitionist.

            Then on 19 December 1840, an act was presented to the Illinois House of Representatives [Abraham Lincoln being a member the Legislature at that time] to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors and to have a fine of $1,000 placed upon the sale of any vinous or spiritous liquors after the passing of the act.  Abraham Lincoln moved to lay the bill on the table, and this was done.(3) 

            Lamon, when speaking on this subject, said: “When President he signed the liquor revenue bill and turned the saloons loose on the country.  The people all drank and Abe was for doing what the people did.(4) 

            Abraham Lincoln was a remarkable man in that he fooled so many people most of the time—but he was neither good nor great.  An irreligious and vulgar man cannot be called good.  A man who says one thing and does another cannot be called great.  He was not an honest man.  I do not mean to say that he would steal, for there cannot be found in his life anything to indicate the slightest dishonesty along this line, although he did wink at it in others.  He died with empty coffers.  Had he been dishonest he could have died rich.  It is true he was called “Honest Abe,” but he was not honest in his speech, and he was not honest in his politics.

            His Republic Party that felt the necessity of exalting him since his death could not have worshiped (sic) him before he died, or they would not have allowed his widow to plead for support as her lately discovered letters show,(5) nor have allowed her to accept charity from Cyrus field as testified by J. P. Morgan,(6) who said elsewhere: “I supported President Lincoln.  I believed his war policy would be the only to save the country, but I see my mistake.  I visited Washington a few weeks ago, and I saw the corruption of the present administration — and so long as Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet are in power, so long will war continue. And for what?  For the preservation of the Constitution and the Union?  No, but for the sake of politicians and government contractors.(7)

            Horace Greeley said, “I cannot trust ‘honest old Abe.’  He saw Seward was too smart and would give trouble out of the Cabinet, so he made him Secretary of State — better to have him in than out.  He saw Chase was aspiring to be President, so he named him Chief Justice to get rid of him.  Chase had been called “the irritating fly in the ointment” at the White House.  Lincoln was smart enough to know it was his daughter, Mrs Kate Chase Sprague, who was managing her father’s Presidential aspirations.  So he anticipated her schemes and without her knowledge had her father made Chief Justice.  When Sumner told her of here father‘s appointment as Chief Justice, she replied, “Are you, too, Mr. Sumner, in this business of shelving papa?”(8) Cameron was giving trouble so he made him Minister to Russia.

            Lamon said: “Mr. Lincoln did not possess a single quality for this office as President.  People said he was good and honest and well meaning, but never pretended that he was great.  He was only nominated by means of a corrupt bargain entered into by Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania and Caleb Smith, of Indiana, provided Lincoln would pledge them Cabinet positions.”  These pledges Lincoln fulfilled and thus made himself a party to corrupt bargains.(9)

            George Hunt said: “The nomination of Mr. Lincoln was purely accidental.  Few had even heard of him before his nomination.”(10)

            The New York Times said: “His election was more by shouts and applause which dominated than any direct labors of any of the delegates.

            John T. Morse said: “He was nominated purely as a sectional candidate of a sectional party.”(11)

            Had Lincoln not been assassinated would he have made better terms during the Reconstruction period?  It was thought so at first and Jefferson Davis, General Cobb, and others expressed their opinion that he would, but the history of the man, not known then, has brought the South to the conclusion that he would not have done even what Andre Johnson tried to do.

Notes:  1. 

            2.

            3.  Journal of House of Representatives of Illinois (1840), page 135.

            4.  Life of Lincoln.

            5.  Mary Lincoln’s letters, dated 26 December 1865 and 13 January 1866.

            6.  Barron’s, 25 December 1922, p. 11

            7.  New Haven Register, copied in New York World, 15 September 1864.

            8.  Life of Salmon P. Chase, p. 630.

            9.  Life of Lincoln, page 449.

            10 Origins of the Late War.

            11. Lincoln (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892), Vol. I, page 178.

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            Lamon and Herndon both testified that Mr. Lincoln would have resented such adulation.  He was a plain man and expected plain language in praising him and only the truth to be recorded.  BEFORE his death it was said: “He was the jolliest man.  He sang vulgar songs.  He was known for his coarse and vulgar jokes.  He was a perfect boor.  As a lawyer, he was a cunning clown.  He was a man of indomitable will.  He was a perfect tyrant.  He soon forgot his friends. His duplicity brought on the war.  He only retailed the wit of other men.  He was the most cunning man in the world.  He had no religion at all.  He was full of mirth.  He drank with the crowd.  He hated the slave.  He was never tactful, He knew not the word of gratitude, he never remembered a favor.  He was very ambitious.  His sole ambition was to gain office.  He was a man without personal attachments.  He was incapable of feeling pity for the suffering.  He had not the instincts of a gentleman.  He was very awkward in ladies’ presence.  His vulgar stories are to indecent to print. 

 

[NOW] What was said about Lincoln after his death?

            He was the saddest man in the world.  He was remarkable for his pure mindedness.  He was a gentleman by instinct.  At the bar he was a genius.  He was a man without a will.  He was the softest hearted man in the world.  He never forgot a kindness.  He was a man without duplicity.  He was the wittiest of men.  He had not a particle of cunning.  He was the godliest man since the Nazarene.  He rarely smiled.  He never touched liquor.  He freed the slave..he was exceedingly tactful.  He had not a particle of ambition.  He was very literary.  He was a man of God and found often on his knees.  He was a man after God’s own pattern.  He never acquired a vice, and never had an impure thought. 

            Books portraying the life of Lincoln, written by many of his glorifiers since his death cannot be relied upon for truthfulness.  Much in these volumes is given from the “inner consciousness” of the writers, and is not founded on truth.  If one gives a careful examination of the printed conversations with friends or foes, the private speeches, political documents and reports, and all that is recorded of Mr. Lincoln in State or Congressional Records while living, there will not be found anything to warrant those beautiful sentiments and humane and religious expressions which abound in these late works.  Lincoln did not talk like that.

            That exquisite little story of Lincoln’s writing the will for a dying Confederate soldier is, by the confession of the author, a story taken from her “inner consciousness.”  Yet it is incorporated in the readers for children and widely used in our Southern schools.  Likewise, that incident recorded of Lincoln’s walking back several miles to place some fallen birds back into their nests does not tally with the lack of humaneness to animals as related by Lamon and Herndon in anecdotes of Lincoln.  Lincoln’s tenderness to his little Tad is an undisputed point – found in early and late writings – but other instances of humaneness and tenderness are far from being substantiated.  The life of Lincoln, by Hay and Nicolay, cannot be relied on as Lamon’s and Herndon’s for by Hay’s own confession, they were in the habit of “telling the truth about everything and everybody like two everlasting angels with one exception – Lincoln.”  This was because “we are Lincoln men through and through.(1)

            It is perfectly natural for the Rev. John Wesley Hill, Chancellor of the Lincoln Memorial University, to glorify Abraham Lincoln in his Lincoln, Man of God.  The success of his university, like the success of the Republican party, depend upon it, but the very fact that this was necessary, and that the writer of this and other like books had to go out of their way to prove that Lincoln was a Christian is the strongest proof of the doubt of these statements.  Who ever thought of writing a book to prove Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, or Stonewall Jackson were Christians?  Dr Hill was born in 1863, and could not have known Lincoln personally as Lamon and Herndon did, and their statements on this subject are most explicit.  Not a minister in Springfield would vote for Lincoln, and not a relative has ever testified to his religious faith.  Even his stepmother, a very religious woman who loved him devotedly, denied the statement that “Abe shed potential tears over his Bible.”  The testimony of his wife should be the strongest of all testimonies for she knew him best.  She said, “Mr. Lincoln had no faith, no hope.”  How can any true estimate be reached about a man whose friends so grossly falsify to make him appear great?  After Lincoln’s death, Lamon said: “the ceremony of Mr. Lincoln’s apotheosis was planned and executed after his death by men who were unfriendly to him while he lived.  Men who had exhausted the resources of their skill and ingenuity in venomous detractions of the living Lincoln were the first after his death, to undertake the task of guarding his memory not as a human being, but as a god.

            There was fierce rivalry who should canonize Mr. Lincoln in the most solemn words; who should compare him to the most sacred character in all history.  He was prophet, priest, and king, he was Washington, he was Moses, he was likened to Christ the Redeemer, he was likened unto God.  After that came the ceremony of apotheosis.  And this was the work of men who spoke of the living Lincoln except with jeers and contempt.  After his death it became a political necessity to pose him as “the greatest, wisest, godliest man that ever lived.” 

            Those who scorned and reviled him while living were Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase; Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton; Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin; Secretary of State, Wm. Seward Fremont; Senators Sumner, Trumbull, Ben Wade, Henry Wilson, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Winter Davis, Horace Greeley, Zack Chandler of Michigan, and a host of others.(2)

            GENERAL Don Piatt, who traveled with Lincoln when he was making his campaign speeches and knew him intimately, said: “When a leader dies all good men go to lying about him.  From the moment that covers his remains to the last echo of the rural press, in speeches, in sermons, eulogies, reminiscences, we hear nothing but pious lies.  Abraham Lincoln has almost disappeared from human knowledge.  I hear of him, I read of him in eulogies and biographies but I fail to recognize the man I knew in life.

 

Notes: 1 New York Times 24 October 1915.

            2. Lamon, life of Lincoln.

 

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Ch. 11

            The vilification of Jefferson Davis seemed necessary to make the glorification of Abraham Lincoln more effective: The murder of President Lincoln furnished the final proof of the ghastly spirit of the rebellion.  Davis inspired the murder of Lincoln.  Davis is as guilty of Lincoln’s murder as Booth.  Davis was conspicuous for every extreme of felicity, inhumanity and malignity.  He was responsible for untold and unimaginable cruelties practiced on loyal citizens in the South.  It seems too incredible to be true that rebel leaders were guilty of Lincoln’s assassination, it must be remembered that Lincoln’s murder is no more atrocious than many crimes of which Davis is notoriously guilty.(1) Poor Davis began like a wandering Jew – a price was put on his head.  He dared rest nowhere for fear of meeting the fate of a traitor – afraid to risk an interview with Sherman and not daring to wait for Johnson’s surrender, he fled to Charlotte.(2)

            The hanging of traitors is sure to begin before the month is over.  The nations of Europe may rest assured that Jeff  Davis will be swinging from the battlements of Washington by the Fourth of July.  We spit upon a later and longer deferred justice.(3) were he here today nothing but execration would have been showered upon him.(4) While I would not be bloody-minded, yet if I had my way I would long ago have organized a military tribunal under military power and I would have put Jeff Davis and all the members of the cabinet on trial for the murders at Andersonville.  Jefferson Davis murdered a thousand men, robbed a thousand widows and orphans, and burned down a thousand homes.(5)   The judiciary has ample evidence of Davis’s guilt of Lincoln’s murder, and of the murder of our soldiers in prison.(6)   Boutwell, of Massachusetts, introduced the following resolution: “BE IT RESOLVED, that Jefferson Davis shall be tried on the charge of killing prisoners and murdering Abraham Lincoln.”  ORDERS TO KILL Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet on the spot were found on the person of Dahgren in Richmond, Virginia.  However, was Davis ever found guilty of any one of the many charges brought against him?  Could he be convicted of any one of the accusations ever brought against him?  Jefferson Davis’ trial was never allowed – it was called several times but was postponed and postponed.  His complicity with the assassination of Lincoln was hooted at even by his worst enemies.  The secret records of the Confederate government proved beyond doubt he was in no way responsible for the cruel treatment of the Andersonville prisoners but their own government was responsible.

NOTES:

1. Harpers Weekly, 17 June 1865.

2. CHENEY, History of the Civil War, page 359.

3. New York Tribune, 1861.

4. Major George W. Nichols, The story of a great March.

5. Thaddeus Stevens, House of Congress, 19 March 1867.

6. John Forney, Clerk of the Senate, Washington Chronicles.

 

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Ch. 12

            George Shea, in a letter to the New York Tribune, said:  “Mr .Horace Greeley received a letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis June 22, 1865, imploring him to bring about a speedy trial of her husband upon the charge of assassination of President Lincoln, and the suppressed cruelties at Andersonville Prison.(1) A public trial was prayed in order that the accusations might be publicly met, and her husband vindicated.  Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, said in the New York Sun: “Mr Greeley came to my residence and placed the letter in my hands, saying he personally did not believe the charge of complicity in the assassination of Lincoln to be true, and that Mr. Davis could be released.  We called Mr. Greeley’s attention to the charge against Mr. Davis of cruel treatment of Union soldiers at Andersonville. [They Conveniently forgot Camp Douglas, at Chicago. CLM] There was a general opinion among the gentlemen of the Republican party that Mr. Davis did not by thought or act participate in a conspiracy against Mr. Lincoln, and none were more than Mr. Thaddeus Stevens.  The only remaining charge, then, was the cruel treatment of the Andersonville prisoners, so at the suggestion of Mr. Greeley, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Stevens, I went to Canada to examine the official archives of the Confederate States.  From these documents, not meant for public eyes, but used in secret session, it was evident that Mr. Davis was not guilty of that charge.  I reported this at once to Mr. Greeley.  On November 9^th, 1866, this notice, evidently written by hin, appeared in The Tribune: “Eighteen MONTHS HAVE NEARLY ELAPSED SINCE Jefferson Davis was made a state prisoner.  He has been publicly charged with conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln and a $100,000 offered for his capture upon this charge.  The capture was made, and the money paid, yet no attempt has been made by the government to procure an indictment on this charge.  He has been charged with the virtual murder of Union soldiers while prisoners of war at Andersonville – but no official attempt has been made to indict him on this charge.  A great government may deal sternly with offenders, but not meanly; it cannot afford to seem unwilling to repair an obvious wrong.  It was not Jefferson Davis or any subordinate or associate of his who should now be condemned for the horrors of Andersonville.  We are responsible ourselves for the continued deterioration of our captives in misery, starvation and sickness in the South.  Of the charge of cruelty to our prisoners so often brought against Mr. Davis, and reiterated by Mr. Blaine in his speech in the United States Senate, we think Mr. Davis must be held altogether acquitted.(2)

            Through the courtesy of General John C. Breckenridge, Judge Shea was allowed to examine the records of the Confederacy, especially those in regard to the care of and exchange of prisoners.  This was taken from Judge Shea’s report: “These secret sessions show that Mr. Davis strongly desired to do something which would secure better treatment of his men in Northen prisons; and would place the war on the footing of war waged by people in modern times, and divest it of a saving character.  Mr. Davis never did yield to the continued demand for retaliation.  Another Source stated: The stories which have been so sediously spread of the barbarity and cruelty of the Confederates to all wounded Union men ought to be set at rest by the printed statements of the eleven Union surgeons, just released, who have come back from Richmond, where they were sent after their capture on the fields of Bull Run, with the most distinct testimony that the Confederates treated their prisoners with humanity.  Who are the miscreants who assert that the rebels burned the wounded in hospitals and bayoneted them as they lay helpless on the battlefields?(3)

            Jefferson Davis needs no other vindication than the fact that the United States authorities dared not bring him to trial as a traitor or rebel but left his case in the hands of the Supreme Court ob a technical point and there it remains today.  Judge Joseph Holt paid large suns for witnesses to testify against President Davis.  When the committee met to investigate the charges, the witnesses swore Conover had told them to swear to the falsehoods.  Jefferson Davis was accused of being arrested in woman’s dress.  Those who arrested him testified to the falsity of this charge.  I have the affidavits of these Union men.  The federal authorities, upon receiving General Wilson’s telegram, ordered the woman’s clothes to be produced.  They never were able to do it: “I am no admirer of Jeff Davis – I am a Yankee, full of Yankee prejudices, but I think it is  wicked to lie.  I was with the party that captured Jeff Davis; I saw the whole transaction from the beginning.  I now say that Jeff Davis did not have on at the time he was taken any such garment as is worn by women.  He did have over his shoulders a water proof article of clothing, something like a haveloch.  He was not in the least concealed.  He wore a hat and did not carry a pail, bucket or kettle of any kind.  I defy any person to find a single officer or soldier who was present at the capture to say that he was disguised in woman’s clothes, or that hid wife acted in any way unlady-like or undignified on that occasion.”(4)   Jefferson Davis was accused of using his office as Secretary of War under President Pierce to arm the South for war.  However, the official documents show that arms were taken from arsenals in the South during his term of office to strengthen the western forts.  The utter unpreparedness for war in the Southern states proves that the South had no share of the arms [by golly, we have them now! CLM] that had previously been distributed.

            He was accused of taking large sums of gold belonging to the Confederacy from Richmond when that city fell.  However, the Confederate treasurer testified to the disposition of all gold that belonged to the Confederate government and President Davis received none.  When arrested, the President had no gold – only s small amount in Confederate bills upon his person or in his possession.  Mrs. Cheney, in her history published in 1894, said: “Davis had to live in a boxcar as he passed through the South as no one cared enough for him to give him hospitality.”  On the contrary, there was not a Southern home but would have esteemed it a great honor to have him as a guest.  The misrepresentations have endless, but no one has touched the character of the man to blur it, and these calumnies like a boomerang have already reacted upon many preferring them.  Ridpath, the historian – one who had been one of John Brown’s ardent defenders – one who had never been able to see any good in Jefferson Davis – after knowing him face to face, and after being welcomed as a guest ay Beauvoir, said: “Jefferson Davis was the ideal embodiment of sweetness, goodness and light.”

            To me it has been the greatest enigma  that one who, in his political life had rendered so many services of value to the United States government when Secretary of War under President Pierce, should have been arrested, manacled, imprisoned, refused a trial, denied citizenship, forced to twenty years of martyrdom just because he stood by the Constitution of the United States as he had been taught to do at the Military Academy under the United States authority.  Dr. Craven, his prison physician, gave this testimony: “The more I saw of him the more I was convinced of his sincere religious convictions.  He impressed me more with the divine origin of God’s Word than any professor of Christianity I ever met.”  Did his Christianity extend to forgiveness of his enemies?  A Northern man, Ridpath, the historian, also a guest at Beauvoir, testified that during his visit he never heard one word of bitterness toward any man from Jefferson Davis.  A quotation from a speech made to the Mississippi Legislature on 10 March 1884 will in itself suffice to answer this question: “Our people have accepted that degree; it therefore behooves them, as they may, to promote the general  welfare of the Union, to show to the world that hereafter as heretofore, the patriotism of our people is not measured by lines of latitude and longitude, but is as broad as the obligations they have assumed and embraces the whole of our ocean-bound domain.  Let them leave to our children’s children the good example of never swerving from the path of duty, and preferring to return good for evil rather than to cherish the unmanly feeling of revenge.  Would one think from this that President Davis regretted the stand he took in 1861?  Hear him again in that speech: “It has been said that I should apply to the United States for a pardon; but repentance must precede the right of pardon, and I have not repented.  Remembering, as I must, all of which has been suffered, all of which has been lost, disappointed hope, and crushed aspirations, yet I deliberately say, if it were to do over again, I would do just as I did in 1861.  Would one sat while stressing loyalty to the Union and to the national flag, President Davis meant that our children should be taught to forget the things for which their fathers fought?”  NOT at all!! Hear him again.  “Never teach your children to admit that their fathers were wrong in their effort to maintain the sovereignty, freedom and independence which is their inalienable [unalienable ? CLM] birthright.  I cannot believe that the causes for which our sacrifices were made can ever be lost, but rather hope that those who now deny the justice of our asserted claims will learn from experience that the fathers builded wisely and the Constitution should be construed according to the commentaries of those men who made it.

            Not one could touch the character of Jefferson Davis morally – pure in thought, pure in speech, pure in life, and pure in religious professions.  His mistakes were of the head, not the heart.  Why is it that such a character as this is not oftener held up by ministers of Gospel, public speakers, and teachers for the youth of our land to emulate? 

 

NOTES:

1. 24 January 1876.

2. Charles A. Dana, New York Sun.

3. William Howard Russell, My diary North and South, page 163.

4. Testimony of James H. Parker, Elburnville, Pennsylvania; copied from Portland Argus (Maine).

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Vindication of the South, by Mildred Lewis Rutherford,

Ch. 13 Newspaper Correspondent; Author;

The manuscript was unearthed from where it where it had been stored.

“The South Must Have Her Rightful Place in History.

CONCLUSION.

            Dr. A.W. Littlefield, of Needham, Massachusetts, said prophetically: “ The South though defeated, really saved to America, and as we now see it, to the world all that was best in American nationality.  The CONSTITUTION of the confederacy furnishes ample proof that Lee’s shrine at Lexington, not Lincoln’s tomb will become the shrine of American patriotism, when once history is told correctly.”  Had the South in 1865 prevailed, history, would have been truthfully written by unprejudiced historians.  The Southern statesmen eho had been true to the Constitution could better have steered the Ship of State than such mem as Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Fessenden, Turnbill, Andrew Johnson, and others.  It has taken the South many years to get off that “rock of offense,” the Reconstruction Period.              While the South was combating the destructive forces at work during this time – homes were being destroyed, domestic relations were upset, property was being confiscated, politics was being corrupted, liberty of speech, and liberty of the press were being suppressed – the North was writing the history unmolested.  We of the South have allowed this history written from the Northern viewpoint, with absolute ignorance of the South, to be taught in our schools all these years with an indifference that is truly appalling.    We have allowed our leaders and out soldiers to be spoken of as “rebels”.  Secession is not rebellion.  We have allowed them to be called “traitors”.  They could never convict one Southern man for the stand he took in 1861.  We have allowed our cause to be spoken of as a “Lost Cause.”  The cause for which the Confederate soldier fought was not a “Lost Cause.”  The late war was fought to maintain the very same principle for which the Americans of 1776 fought – the non-interference with just rights.  The trouble in 1865 was that the South failed to maintain this principle by force of arms, being a Republic of sovereign states and not a nation, she had the right to resent any interference with rights which fad been guaranteed to her by the Constitution.  The South never has abandoned the principle for which she fought nor ever will.  By overwhelming arms, 2,850,000 forced 600,000 to surrender, and in surrendering she was forced to submit to the terms of parole.

            We have allowed the war to be called a “Civil War,” because the North called it so when the history was first written, and by allowing this we have acknowledged that we were a nation, not sovereign states, and therefore the South had no right to secede.  No wonder the doctrine of States’ Rights has been so misunderstood!  It with no thought of stirring up sectional strife, but rather with the desire of allaying sectional bitterness that I am anxious to have the truth known.  If the North does not know the South’s side of history – and how can she know if we do not tell it to her? – the historians of the future will continue to misrepresent the South and the South will continue to resent the misrepresentations.

            We of the South are not advocating the adoption of anyone textbook, but we are advocating that those textbooks which are unjust to the South shall be ruled out of our schools, out of our homes, out of our public libraries, and that encyclopedias and books of references now being sold be carefully examined before being placed in homes or libraries.

            The great underlying thought which animated the soldiers of the Confederacy was their profound regard for the principle of state self-government.  The South was not fighting to hold her slaves, [Virginia had long before the WBTS, been trying since before 1777, trying to get the King of England, to stop sending slaves over! CLM] but for the freedom of controlling her own domestic affairs.  Only s very small minority of the men who fought in the Southern army were slaveholders.  There were over a thousand more slaveholders in the Northern army than in the Southern.  Only a small percent of the Confederate soldiers ever owned slaves.(1) furthermore, General Lee, who had freed his slaves before the war, commanded the Southern forces, while General Grant, who owned slaves until the Thirteenth Amendment, commanded the Northern forces.

            George Lunt wrote: “In presenting the causes which led to the war, it will be seen that slavery, though an occasion, was not in reality the cause of the war.  The doctrine of States Rights is not well understood.  The states do not have their rights from the Constitution, but the Constitution derives its rights from the states.  The states do not derive their rights from the Federal government, but each state derives its power from the people of the states.  At last the people hold the power, and it is not the people of all states collectively, but the people of each one of the sovereign states, separately, who act in convention representing the will of the people, so the people must not surrender this power to direct their local affairs to the government.(2) In his book, History of the United States, George Bancroft said: “The Federal government is only a common agent of the transaction of business delegated to it by the action of the states.”  Already instances have come to notice where textbooks making false statements about the North have been rejected in Southern schools.  Will not the North be as magnanimous?  The South should be s quick to resent an injustice to the North in history as shr now resents an injustice to the South in history.  Dr. J. L. M. Curry, in his Southern States of the American Nation, says: “history, poetry, romance, art, and public opinion have been most unjust to the South.  If the true record be given, the South is rich in patriotism, in intellectual force, in civic and military achievements, in heroism, in honorable and sagacious statesmanship – but if history as now written is accepted it will consign the South to infamy,”

            The South should not be afraid to speak the truth and call injustice by its proper name.  In failing to do this we have been unjust to the South.  For fear of offending some personal friends of the North, we have assumed an apologetic tone too long. And for fear of failing to secure an office or some honor we have allowed politics to make us unjust, and we have dared to criticize Abraham Lincoln, and many are now falling down to worship him.

            There is no need for any animus to be shown, for no facts which cannot be substantiated by reliable authority.  Bust we must not be afraid to speak boldly.  By inheritance we of the South are not cowards.  All I ask is that the reader consider what is stated here.  Disprove it, if you can, for I will be glad to know wherein I am wrong.  If you cannot disprove it, then accept it gracefully.  Acknowledge your mistakes and be jusr.  Help to right the wrongs against the South and cease criticizing those who are trying to do it.

 

NOTES:

1. John R. Deering, page 381.

2. Origins of the late war, page 10.

 

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Ch. 14

            It is my intention, and my duty, to make an attempt to set history right.  We owe it to ALL those who fought in this country’s bloodiest time in history, regardless on which side they fought on.  Who writes history? Why the Victor, of course!.  So, do you honestly think

the victor is going to cast themselves in anything other than a position of that which is right and honorable?  The Victor is not going to put into the history books the facts about their raping, looting, and murdering innocent civilians.  AN INTRODUCTION TO TRUE HISTORY.

            The victor is not going to tell you that slavery had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the War for Southern Independence (WBTS).  The victor is not going to tell you that slavery existed in the North as well as in the South until well after the war and that the Emancipation Proclamation DID NOT FREE ONE SINGLE SOLITARY slave, but it was the 13^th Amendment that did it.  The victor is not going to tell you that Lincoln’s wife had slaves, and that General U. S. Grant’s wife, along with other Union officers, had slaves.  The victor is not going to tell you what a true racist and bigot Lincoln was.  They are not going to tell you about Lincoln’s secret love life with other men.

            Why is there such hate stirred up at the sight or mention of the Confederate Battle Flag?  “Because it stands for slavery and is a symbol of racism,” is what you commonly hear from the NAACP, other liberals, and traitorous Southerners, all of whom have been sadly, but purposefully, fed a bunch of lies.  Numerous brave and honorable black Confederate soldiers fought for the same reason white soldiers fought; to defend their homeland from an invading army.  It was NOT the Confederate flag that flew above the slave trading ships, but Old Glory, the Stars and Stripes.  History was written to make the South the villain, cover up the truth about the why the war was fought, cover up the illegal acts of Abraham Lincoln, and make the North look like a grand savior of the USA.  In no way is slavery condoned here, or said to be anything other than an evil institution, but the fact is that it was a way of life at the time period in history, and was practiced in all states.  It is my hope that in reading all the information contained here, that the reader will see for himself/herself that what is taught in our schools, written in books, magazines, newspapers, and created by Hollywood, is not an actual account of true history, but a fabrication meant to do away with an entire culture and a way of life.

I am not the author of any of the material contained here.  That material which is copyrighted, states so.  This is not compiled for sale, but for the sole purpose of educating the reader.  If you wish to make copies of this CD and distribute them, feel free to do so.

CONCLUSION.

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