Lincoln's Tariff War (by Thomas DiLorenzo)

The first of ten lectures from the 2006 Steven Berger Seminar: Thomas DiLorenzo on Liberty and American Civilization, recorded at the Mises Institute, 06-05-2006.

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[procommenter]

Lincoln waged total war against the South: poisoning wells, burning crops, destroying grain silos, tearing up rails, desecrating churches, shrines & cemeteries. This is Lincoln. Admire him, extol & worship our answer to Herr Hitler.

[latewire]

>Let us not think these men died in vain.

What did the soldiers on the north die for? The southern government was far more in keeping with the philosophy of the founding fathers. Lincoln was a tyrannical madman.

The bad guys won "the civil war," and our current country is the descendent of his authoritarianism. The sooner as we recognize that, the sooner we can get back to states rights and the rest of the Bill of Rights.

[KayBeeEee1983]

If the north hadn't "conquered" the south, someone else would have, probably Mexico with the help of a world power.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@latewire "The southern government was far more in keeping with the philosophy of the founding fathers."

The southern government was a slavocracy and it was even more centralized than the north. The Declaration of Independence says "All men are created equal". This is basic stuff.

"Lincoln was a tyrannical madman."

So was Davis. He did most of the same "tyrannical" things that Lincoln did, plus Davis was a slave holder....

"The bad guys won "the civil war,"

No, the slaveholders lost. Sorry....

[KayBeeEee1983]

@procommenter Poisoning wells? desecrating churches, shrines and cemeteries? None of that is true. You're our answer to Herr Goebbels.

[procommenter]

Lincoln on Slavery: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery." --- March 14, 1861

"What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races." --- 7-17-1858, fr. a speech delivered in Springfield, Ill.

"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, or of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people." --- September 15, 1858

[stl6281z]

this is great work thank you

[kungfu2u2]

Lincoln opposed slavery in the territories only, because he needed slavery to fuel the southern economy to exact tribute, but he needed the Abolitionist votes, and needed the new states like California to provide additional ones.

LIkewise, he couldn't allow the states escape these taxes by seceding.

Lincoln was the most deranged lunatic in world history.

[procommenter]

(1) There's a wonderful book that all historians should read if only because it lacks in the necessary revisionism with which to make Abe Lincoln into Jesus, Jr. Its title page reads: "Letters from Lee's Army or Memoirs of Life, In and Out of The Army of Virginia During the War Between the States," compiled by Susan Leigh Blackford from original and

[procommenter]

(2) contemporaneous memoirs, correspondence and diaries : Annotated by her husband Charles Minor Blackford : Edited and abridged for publication by Charles Minor Blackford III : Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1947

[MadSmokerBBQ]

@procommenter with Sherman doing his bidding.

[huckstered]

@Southernjuggalo63 You commented to me, I only responded. I only point out truths to your misfortune.