by Lance Seppi
Before the war, 90% the US Treasury came from the South. Kansas Senator Thomas Benton said in 1928 the South was being plundered.
Northern states threatened to succeed no less than 5 times prior to the Uncivil War. Nobody questioned their right. A few of the states including Virginia, had statements in their state constitution affirming their right to succeed if their rights were violated.
Lincoln split Virginia in two. He arrested entire legislatures of Kentucky and Maryland. Lincoln shut down 300 newspapers that dared to question his war. He attempted to arrest Chief Justice Taney. Lincoln arrested tens of thousands of political opponents in the North. These were denied the right of Habeas Corpus. They did not get out till after the war. Lincoln said he would throw the Constitution overboard to plug the hole in the boat. He said the Constitution was a roadblock. Yes, Lincoln was a tyrant.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in areas the North had no control over. It did not free Mrs. Lincoln’s slaves, the boarder state slaves or Grant’s slaves. Grant said, “Good work is hard to find.” Grant said “If this war was over slavery, I would pick up my sward and carry it to the other side.” Grant said, "If I can push Lee back a mile, and lose ten thousand men, it is worth it.” Grant was brutal even to his own men.
William T. Sherman said, “There is a group of people that must be killed or banished. To the persistent secessionist, death is mercy and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better.” Sherman said he would rather live in Hell than Texas.
Remember, England abolished slavery without a war.
The war was over the annihilation of the South.
Lincoln's Assistant Sec. of War, Charles A. Dana, was a close friend Carl Marx. Marx congratulated Lincoln for his "reconstruction of a social world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, "If it takes ten years and ten, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
Two thirds of the anti-slavery societies were in the South.
About 75,000 blacks volunteered to fight for the South, for their country and their families.
Nehemiah 4:14 "...Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."
Slave holders were only 6% of the people of the South. Most slaveholders had only 1 to 3 slaves. These were part of their family, nursing their babies. It cost the equivalent of $350,000 to buy a black servant.
When northern investigators questioned blacks after the war, they published their findings in the Slave Narratives. These are well worth reading. Out of 4,000, 87% refer to their masters as either good or kind.
The winners write public school history books.
Yankee Senator J. P. Wickersmah declared in 1865: "With free schools in the South there could have been no rebellion in the future...When our youth learn to read similar books, similar lessons, we shall become one people, possessing one organic nationality.
God wants his people to have a hope and a future.”
The Bible commands us to teach our children history, that they would teach their children to set their hope in God and not be like their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Christians are commanded by God to know true history.
Robert E. Lee said, “The march of Providence is so slow and our desire so impatient, the work of progress so immense, and our means of aiding it so feeble, the life of humanity is so long and that of the individual so brief that we often only see the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”
Psalm 78:9-11 "The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God; They refused to walk in His law, And forgot His works And His wonders that He had shown them."
