This
is the best work I have ever read on the War of
1861-present. I punctures the Great American Myth and topples Father Abraham
from his throne in his Olympian Temple on the Mall. Wars are not fought over
other peoples’ labour systems; they are fought over the control of other
peoples’ resources. This is imperialism, and the rulers of imperial nations who
wage these wars wage them for power and self-aggrandizement. Lincoln and his
crony-capitalists cloaked their crime in robes of morality, and duped posterity
with what Voltaire called “the propaganda of the victorious.”
The Confederacy had nothing to gain and everything to lose by
inaugurating war against the industrializing colossus, but when Lincoln waged
his war of invasion, conquest, and coerced political allegiance, he drove
Virginia, “The Mother of States and Statesmen” – among others – out of the
Union. When Virginia’s Governor Letcher received Lincoln’s call for troops to subjugate
the “Cotton Kingdom” and bring it back under the heel of his “Mercantile
Kingdom,” Letcher refused, and indicted Lincoln: “You have chosen to inaugurate
civil war, and we will resist it with the same spirit you have exhibited
towards the South.” The next day, Virginia seceded, and three years later Mr.
Lincoln’s army burned down Governor Letcher’s house. Emancipation? Dr. Pace
says that Union, forced by the bayonet, is slavery.
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