Posted on 02/12/2021 7:34:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
To a hall filled with young men on a cold Illinois night in January 1838, Abraham Lincoln delivered his earliest recorded public remarks.
For the 50 years prior, the living rooms, parlors, and public offices of our country had been teeming with the brave Americans who’d fought, struggled, and suffered to create these United States. “Nearly every American,” Lincoln recalled, “had been a participator in some of its scenes.”
But now that generation was dying off. What no invading army could, time, he lamented, had itself accomplished: “They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all resistless hurricane had swept over them, and left only, here and there, a lonely trunk… to combat, with its mutilated limbs, a few more ruder storms, then to sink, and be no more.”
Without their life experience, he realized, his was the first generation of Americans tasked with upholding their fathers’ noble experiment simply by the strength of their own virtues. This, he warned, would be very difficult.
As he looked around him, at both slave states and their northern neighbors, he saw and feared the evil of swelling mobs not merely for their unfortunate victims, but for our national tolerance of their violence and misrule — and the effect this shrugging of shoulders and murmuring of approval or disapproval would have on patriotic and unpatriotic men alike.
The incidents weren’t always seemingly connected by cause. A group of gamblers hanged; a mixed-race murderer burned alive; black men suspected of planning insurrection, and then white men suspected of sympathizing, and then simply out-of-state strangers caught in the middle of swelling hate. But beyond their brutality, the young lawyer feared these mobs were connected for the lawlessness they embodied — and the idle familiarity with which his fellow Americans seemed to accept these incidents.
While the 1830s mobs “hang gamblers, or burn murders,” he cautioned, tomorrow’s mobs would hang and burn the innocent — “and thus it goes on, step by step, till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals, are trodden down, and disregarded.”
While after January 2021’s Capitol riot we’ve all seen the ruthless efficiency with which our government is capable of cracking down on lawlessness, we too saw the summer before, when months of attacks on federal officers, politicians, police, private homes, courthouses, and innocent bystanders met calculated indifference and shrugged excuses for “historic racial injustices.”
This too, was well familiar to Lincoln, who knew the mob will go further and spread deeper, warning, “by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained.”
“On the other hand,” he predicted, “good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose.”
Combined, he warned, these seemingly opposing feelings come to one terrible conclusion: “the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed — I mean the attachment of the People.”
To ensure that the fading “scenes of the revolution are [not] now or ever will be entirely forgotten,” Lincoln prescribed “in history, we hope, they will be read of, and recounted, so long as the Bible shall be read.”
Yet today at The Washington Post, New York Times, and at the top of our government, the privileged and ignorant children of our country tell Americans our experiment is tainted, our Revolution was for evil, our Civil War was not enough. They demand reparations through re-education, racist quotas, kneeling subservience, and crude offerings of money. Neither the honored dead of the Revolution nor the lives of 300,000 Yankee boys lying stiff in Southern dust will appease them — they want more than the blood of our countrymen.
To “fortify against” the mob, Lincoln also prescribed an American “political religion” rested on law, order, morality, and reason, yet today’s revolutionaries reside at the very height of our government, inclined to rule toward the same terrible ends the newspapers, college professors and street activists demand. While we all agree the mob’s attack on the Capitol was intolerable, many claim that mobs of Black Lives Matter and Antifa members occupying and burning our cities are less wicked, justified by some imaginary historic cause.
Black separatism, the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center claimed Thursday, is no longer born of hate, but “out of valid anger against very real historical and systemic oppression.” Lincoln, however, knew “there is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”
Just more than two decades after his remarks, Lincoln was president. His office was characterized by a stunning bravery, as well as the very principles he called for in 1838 — “general intelligence, sound morality and, in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and the laws.”
Treading carefully but boldly between Southern sympathizers and abolitionist radicals, the man who in 1838 lamented the passing of our Founding Fathers would as president write the end of their page in history, uniting once and for all the truths espoused in our Declaration of Independence with the laws laid out in our Constitution.
For a century, Lincoln’s story was derided and dismissed by Southern apologists seeking to strike his place in history for the fantasies they preferred. Today, his story is derided and dismissed by racists and radicals of different politics, working hard to undo the political religion he cemented, and to strike his place in history for their own preferred fantasies.
Today, on Abraham Lincoln’s 212th birthday, Americans must remember his life, his deeds, his sacrifice, and the lives, deeds, and sacrifices of all who came before and after him in the service of these United States. If we cannot quickly return to the vision they fought and died for, heed the warnings of 1838, and remember the lessons of our Revolution and Civil War, we are just as sure to lose our country as ever before.
Good catch; tx.
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Genocides generally have 2 things in common:
1) The people who are ready and willing to commit the genocide always telegraph their intentions. It takes a very high level of hate to be part of a genocide of innocent people, and because of that, the people doing the killing simply cannot conceal their intentions. Ignore what they say at your own risk...
2) The victims NEVER think mass killings are possible. In Europe, as Jews were loaded into the cattle cars later in the genocide, other Jews started hearing rumors of death camps, and they also started asking why the ones who departed earlier weren’t writing home. While the reasons are obvious now, at the time there were 2 common reactions to these two items: (1) - What you’re saying can NEVER happen here, we are the most ‘cultured’ country in the world; (2) - Even if I do leave, I’ll lose everything that I’ve worked for here.
The ones who did leave early and made it to a safe place likely were able to hang on to at least some of their wealth, and obviously survived the holocaust. The ones who didn’t leave early, but figured it out later, found the doors shut to them all over the world. Something to think about.
The reason they telegraph is to provoke the other party and to terrorize others into being quiet hoping it will slide by them.
Once the other party has it in their consciousness, they are ineffective. If the aggression was kept in the unconscious, then the other party would be more effective and united subconsciously that way. Inversely they get “woke” on “white supremacists” because it allows them to throw hypocritically in their own blood lustful unconscious their desires to rape, loot, steal and murder freely, satisfying their inner repressed pulsions.
All leftists, and especially schizo youth Khmer Rouge types, use this “psych-up” to make their revolution “successful”.
It is typical high level gangster psy ops to spell to the opponent what he is going to do while keeping in the unconscious a vicious hatred of his opponent.
From all that I have studied over the years, I have found these leading causes of the Civil War:
1) Sensational “news” reported in newspapers and over the wire.
2) Sensational “news” reported via rumors.
3) Slavery
4) Frustration in the South, given a number of its members (Rep’s plus Senators) in the US Congress, not standing up for the South
5) False Pride - Vanities, that affected the perspectives of people of various regions vs people of other regions (different people not thoughtfully considering what it was like to wear the other’s shoes)
6) As time went by, an increasing misrepresentation by Party A re Party B (pick from a number of opponents)
7) My own consideration of the views of members of the board of directors at Northern banks, who were also industrialists and management of Northern industries -— *perhaps* (though I am not yet certain), they were too reluctant to loan money to the South where Southern industry would develop and prosper. Perhaps an opportunity for the South, was thereby missed.
8) Toward the start of the actual fighting, I do know that many in the South, became much more inclined to defend their homes, their territories, and their states.
9) And to some extent, there were enough Religious Revivalists to stimulate and stir the pot, North and South.
10) Adventure . . . until later when the cost quenched it.
11) Survival - given a necessary hardiness to work the land, despite many odds, not easy to convince a body of people to quit
12) An incredible amount of potential for misfortune, and how individuals react to that -— upsetting many, many plans
The one ray of hope arguing against your thesis is that record gun sales indicate that many Americans DO think mass killings are coming their way and are at least now equipped, even if not truly mentally prepared, to defend themselves.
The schizo American society has sold its soul, ignoring stories of grandparents , and grandparents themselves wanting to act like kids sold their kids away. As a result there is no “heritage” tie feelings left, there is no mother in the unconscious to protect, no father in the unconscious to live up to. Only the marxists have had their “fabricated unconsciousness” built to take that surrogate role for them so that their seething hatred be more effective.
Thus schizophrenic apathy sets in like dead wood, and only the NFL matters like a baby pacifier.
Focusing on monuments is too late at this point as that was a mop up for them without resistance. Unless people feel personally unconsciously insulted by government, there will not be an effective reaction.
Ironically, in an ambivalent fashion, it probably are the ones dependent on government who have the most issue with it eventually, resenting and envying its authority at the same time, beating the king up for not delivering its goods.
Those who foolishly do not want a King at all are simply taking away their motivation to resist and blame the government. A King was installed in times past as a piñata to beat when things went wrong. It is the way democrats voted in attacking Trump. This was a typical King beheading primitive society behavior, and yet we are the ones carrying the blame now for this brazen taboo violating attack of theirs.
Interesting post, thanks!
I read once that every genocide begins as a utopian dream: “If we just have the strength to do this, this will become a paradise.”
Horse Manure!!!! Lincoln was not a saint,hero or superman. He was a conniving corporate lawyer who represented most of the major rail roads in the US. He fabricated the notion of a supreme federal government from thin air, subverted the Constitution, locked people up without due process, threatened to arrest the Chief Justice for opining that a state could leave the union, rewarded his railroad cronies with cabinet positions and even made his old boss, McClellan, the supreme commander of the army. On top of all that he believed Blacks were inferior genetically to Whites and wanted them all repatriated back to Africa.
Yes. The Civil War was an unconscious hatred of the North for the South. Lincoln did not go after seditionist slavery expanding democrats, nope, he allied and was bipartisan with them to attack the South.
To this day we are surprised of the RINO bunch. It is not surprising. Lincoln was the first RINO who unconsciously allied with democrats, the very reason for all the terrorism trouble.
The North was blackmailed because it was allowed to loot the South. As a result the country is still divided. The South has an unconscious beef as a result against the North, and vice versa the gaslighting North hiding its guilt in unconscious righteous domination of the South.
Instead both North and South should dig deeper in the unconscious at the level of Lincoln’s betrayal and his tyrannical divide-America to conquer scheme. He was a lawyer , by the way, and knew this game in court and in the justice system well, as a swamp creature.
The parties are the problem.
All this confederate flag take down BS by RINOs is a continued provocation.
Maybe God will allow it to surface? I do not know. A lot of childish schizophrenia in America naturally recoils at any “big boy” discussion going beyond the flat football garbage.
Wow.
As Lincoln did with the demise of the Revolutionaries, I have seen the decline of America coinciding with the loss of the greatest generation. They were the last generation who knew suffering in the Depression and evil in the Axis of WWII, and who understood that Communism was a threat to the world and that promoting Americanism, along with perpetual vigilance, were the long-term remedy.
My father survived the Depression in the poorest section of the poorest town in OK, then fought the Japanese on Guam in WWII, then learned to work with the Japanese against Red China and the USSR in the 60s. His life was one of devotion to duty and to his country.
I thought that by teaching the next generation I could continue his country and his principles, but the Leftists were more numerous and more destructive, and now the country I hand to my children is one they will have to fight and die for to return to its first principles of freedom under representative law, or let die and bring darkness on the world.
Something to think about.
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Something else to think about is that the Jews didn’t have guns.
The south showed little interest in industrializing. And in point of fact, northern bankers loaned vast amounts to the south, just for agriculture and not industry. It's why northern banking interests in New York were so opposed to the war.
The political and economic structure of the south was built on agriculture, and specifically on "King Cotton" and a plantation aristocracy. As Texas Senator Louis Wigfall put it to a British journalist, ""We are an agricultural people; we are a primitive but a civilized people. We have no cities — we don't want them. We have no literature — we don't need any yet. We have no press — we are glad of it.... We want no manufactures: we desire no trading, no mechanical or manufacturing classes. As long as we have our rice, our sugar, our tobacco, and our cotton, we can command wealth to purchase all we want...."
A Jewish neighbor, reflecting on the Holocaust, said that he was told this by some older relatives: "When Hitler came to power, we knew it would be bad, because his antisemitic views were clear. But, we'd been through rough periods before. We asked, 'What's the worst he could do? Kill us all?' "
Unfortunately, the answer was "Yes."
QUESTION: How did we get here?
Some folks have been telling us this was coming for over 70 years! They were members of the John Birch Society (JBS).
Thanks to ridicule and lies by the 5th column - now called the “mainstream media”- not enough of you listened.
How effective was that 1950s disinformation campaign (LIES!) against the JBS?
Substitute “TRUMP” for “JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY” and you’ll have SOME idea!
Want to know more while we MAY have time to stop them?
Go to JBS.ORG to learn more!
WARNING: If you DO get serious about turning back the CRIMINALS now engineering the newest totalitarian nation, brace for impact!
If you decline to fight for your nation and the freedoms purchased with the “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” of those who went before, Sam Adams has some words for you:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
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