Lincoln vs Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln on Secession

http://www.slmnews.com This video explores Abraham Lincoln's position on secession in 1848 when he was seeking office and then again in 1861 when was made President.

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• revolution

[guitarbandit7498]

This goes to back up much of what I've always believed about Lincoln. He was our country's first terrorist. Half a million people died, our own people, because of that fucker. The constitution is clear in it's stance on secession, yet Lincoln chose to ignore it. More Americans died in the Civil War than nearly all other American wars combined. Good job 'Honest Abe'...

[RedShirtArmy]

Yeah, on Lincoln's hands lie the deaths of more about 600,000 people - more US deaths in than Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, WWI and WWII combined. Plus, he shreaded the concept of rule of law. He was definitely a tyrant.

[803honda]

excellent!

hey, thats a Hank Williams song!

but whose singin it??

Ive always loved ole Hank; the greatest songwriter of all time and the inventor of rock and roll!

[RedShirtArmy]

It sure is an ole Hank song. This version I really love - it's by Tom Petty (a Southron from Jacksonville, FL). Glad you liked it.

[HeritageNotHateProd]

5 Stars

Lincoln was a hypocritical tyrant.

[GaGirlie777]

Redshirtarmy mentions the Lincoln double talk at the end. Bush and all these other New World Order politicians do the same thing. Bush talks about freedom all while he's passing the Patriot Act.

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman : Yes, and the fact that the C.S.A. didn't have a viable navy to break the blockade. The war might have ended in stalemate had the South been able to export cotton, indigo & tobacco with which to fund its army.

[SovereignStatesman]

@procommenter

A "country" is not necessarily a sovereign nation, though some use it synonyously.

Lee expressly stated that secession was revolution, and that was how he fought the war for the South, rather than as a national defense-- and in doing so, he clearly and obviously gave up a decisive advantage which definitely cost him the war.

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman Lee, in an interview, referred to Virginia as a country. He also regretted surrendering after he saw what "Reconstruction" entailed.

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman : The polling stations were manned with federal troops who insisted that voters cast the proper vote: the vote for Union Party (Republican) candidates.

[SovereignStatesman]

@procommenter

Yeah but he fought it as a revolution, not as a national defense of a sovereign state.

That albatross cost him the war, even though he revoked it afterward in 1859

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman : No argument there. Gen. Robert E. Lee fought for his country. His country was Virginia.

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman : The courts are established. ALL citizens must acquit defendants. It's an action that can be taken immediately. It requires no new laws. If 90% of all citizens being tried for violating unconstitutional laws were acquitted, how long would it take to turn things around?

[SovereignStatesman]

@procommenter

Because the US IS NOT A SOVEREIGN NATION.

Each STATE is a sovereign nation.

BY LAW.

My video proves this, it's worth a look on my channel.

[SovereignStatesman]

@procommenter

NO.

The PEOPLE of each state must assert the FACT that their state is a sovereign nation, and that THEY-- not any select officials-- are the RULING SOVEREIGNS of their respective state.

That is the ONLY solution.

[procommenter]

@SovereignStatesman : What the U.S. must do to avoid disintegration: revoke popular election of U.S. senators, ban civil servants fr. joining secretive Orders (the F.O.P., C.F.R., etc.), compel Congress to coin (not print) our money, disband standing armies, end foreign aid, end the C.I.A. & F.B.I. and put on trial its agents & directors, turn over to Iraqi & Afghani tribal elders U.S. officials who ordered the deployment of D.U.