[Non-Sequitur]

Only one problem - DiLorenzo's book was never about the South's shortcomings and never sought to take up that issue in the first place.

No, you never do want to take up the south's shortcommings, do you? Jeff Davis abused power, trampled rights, and installed government intervention and socialistic policies in ways that Lincoln would never have dreamed of. But instead of looking at both sides in the same fashion, Tommy blames Lincoln for everything. DiLusional's agenda smacks of intellectual dishonesty.

[Maelstrom]

Of course he blames Lincoln for everything.

Lincoln won, nobody else is responsible for the utter lack of limitations on contemporary government.

However, the author does have a very good point.

Namely, that if we're critizing Lincoln, by definition, we aren't critizing Davis, or JFK, or Reagan.

[GOPcapitalist]

No, you never do want to take up the south's shortcommings, do you?

Its got its time and place, but it is also wholly irrelevant as a rebuttal to the documentation of Lincoln's violations. The Claremonsters saw DiLorenzo taking Lincoln to task over his abuses, couldn't handle facts like that being spread about their false god, and responded not by countering or addressing them, but with the Clintonesque line you so often tout: "the all did it."

[Colt .45]

Sounds like your defense of Lincoln and critique of Jeff Davis is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Lincoln did nothing more than to constantly mug and roll the US Constitution during his years in office. He was an American version of Julius Caesar, only he never was able to establish himself as an absolute monarch. Read more of the Founders' intent, not your Yankee bilge history.