It was first composed as the minority report in the Klu Klux Klan hearings of 1871. Woodrow Wilson then codified the racial essense of it in his 'History of the American People.' Since then, it has been continually pumped as an organizer for the Democratic Party, but following desegregation in the South the Dems dropped it and it wandered over into the Republican camp. Ah, the dangers of a history that is a lie agreed upon.
Pray tell what part is false?
The romantic imagery associated with the sum of all evils known as slavery. It first started as the justification for the organization of the slave patrols and the Konfederat vets into the Reconstruction KKK. It was embedded into our education system in the Wilson era. In no small part credit for this goes to the media, and Wilson was our first president to really understand and abuse the power of the mass media, most notably in 'Birth of a Nation,' which was adapted directly from his 'History of the American People.'
Tell me the New England states didn't think they had the RIGHT to secede in the early 1800s?
Some folks did, but they didn't. Tell me J.Q. Adams wasn't censored in the House by the southern representative for just mentioning that possibility.
Tell me the founders didn't say that when a government became oppressive it was the right of the people to overthrow it?
Yes, they did, but it was the south that boycotted the Convention of the States in 1861, not the North. The right to secede was recognized by the North. The right to steal from and engage in open warfare with the Northern states was not. In any case, as Alexander Stephens noted directly after the war, it was not a war against slavery, it was a war to protect African subordination.
You don't think that the Civil War was one of the milestones on the path to the overwhelmingly large Federal government we have today?
It was the end of the first real attempt to install such a thing. That attempt came in the form of the fugitive slave act which attempted to install slavery into free states. What remained afterwards was the heritage of the tyranny of the Davis government, which is today the very epitomy the thing you falsely credit to Lincoln. It is simply absurd to see someone like you rant about the 14,000 violations of Habeus Corpus credited to Lincoln, when Davis did it for 9 millions, 3.5 million of whom never even had the right to be considered a human being.