Did Lincoln Deliberately Provoke War and Why?
Posted by freedomforall 1 hour, 55 minutes ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"“He told me that the very first thing placed in his hands after his inauguration was a letter from Majr Anderson announcing the impossibility of defending or relieving Sumter…. He himself conceived the idea, and proposed sending supplies, without an attempt to reinforce giving notice of the fact to Gov Pickens of S.C. The plan succeeded. They attacked Sumter — it fell, and thus did more service than it otherwise could.”
Northern newspapers saw through the ruse:
“Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to inaugurate civil war without appearing in the character of an aggressor.” ~ (Providence Daily Post, Providence, R.I., April 13, 1861.)
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Why did Lincoln flipflop? In an April 1861 meeting with John Baldwin Lincoln admitted one major reason was economic plunder:
“But what am I to do meantime with those men at Montgomery? Am I to let them go….open Charleston, &c., as ports of entry, with their ten per cent tariff? What, then, would become of MY tariff?”
Baldwin related, “this last question he (Lincoln) announced with such emphasis, showed that in his view it decided the whole matter.” (Interview Between President Lincoln and Col. John B. Baldwin, April 4th, 1861, Statements and Evidence, Staunton Speculator, Staunton, Virginia: Spectator Job Office, D.E. Strasburg, Printer, 1866, 12)
President Tyler’s son Lyon Tyler writes:
“…. the deciding factor with him (Lincoln) was the tariff question. In three separate interviews, he asked what would become of his revenue if he allowed the government at Montgomery to go on with their ten percent tariff…” (Originally printed in Tyler’s Quarterly in Volume 33, October and January issues, 1935.)
In his provoking an immoral war, Lincoln abandoned a founding principle for the reason of revenue."
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Lincoln is the worst war criminal in American history ... so far.
"If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of willful and offensive war. Most other sins are circumscribed within narrow limits, that is, the power of one man cannot give them a very general extension. . . but he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. We leave it to England and Indians to boast of these honors; we feel no thirst for such savage glory; a nobler flame, a purer spirit animates America."
- Thomas Paine, 1778
"“He told me that the very first thing placed in his hands after his inauguration was a letter from Majr Anderson announcing the impossibility of defending or relieving Sumter…. He himself conceived the idea, and proposed sending supplies, without an attempt to reinforce giving notice of the fact to Gov Pickens of S.C. The plan succeeded. They attacked Sumter — it fell, and thus did more service than it otherwise could.”
Northern newspapers saw through the ruse:
“Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to inaugurate civil war without appearing in the character of an aggressor.” ~ (Providence Daily Post, Providence, R.I., April 13, 1861.)
...
Why did Lincoln flipflop? In an April 1861 meeting with John Baldwin Lincoln admitted one major reason was economic plunder:
“But what am I to do meantime with those men at Montgomery? Am I to let them go….open Charleston, &c., as ports of entry, with their ten per cent tariff? What, then, would become of MY tariff?”
Baldwin related, “this last question he (Lincoln) announced with such emphasis, showed that in his view it decided the whole matter.” (Interview Between President Lincoln and Col. John B. Baldwin, April 4th, 1861, Statements and Evidence, Staunton Speculator, Staunton, Virginia: Spectator Job Office, D.E. Strasburg, Printer, 1866, 12)
President Tyler’s son Lyon Tyler writes:
“…. the deciding factor with him (Lincoln) was the tariff question. In three separate interviews, he asked what would become of his revenue if he allowed the government at Montgomery to go on with their ten percent tariff…” (Originally printed in Tyler’s Quarterly in Volume 33, October and January issues, 1935.)
In his provoking an immoral war, Lincoln abandoned a founding principle for the reason of revenue."
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Lincoln is the worst war criminal in American history ... so far.
"If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of willful and offensive war. Most other sins are circumscribed within narrow limits, that is, the power of one man cannot give them a very general extension. . . but he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. We leave it to England and Indians to boast of these honors; we feel no thirst for such savage glory; a nobler flame, a purer spirit animates America."
- Thomas Paine, 1778
