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"Don't besmirch the memory of Lincoln..."

Since when is stating UNREFUTED facts about Lincoln besmirching his memory? Everything Natural Law stated in post #19 is historical fact.

Okay. Here I go:

"Lincoln used war to destroy the U.S. Constitution in order to establish a powerful central government."

Seems to me like the Constitution still stands. I haven't read about it being destroyed.

"Lincoln illegally suspended the writ of habeas corpus"

He had that right in a time of war. Congress couldn't act, and the country needed to put down a rebellion.

"He launched a military invasion without consent of Congress, blockaded Southern ports without declaring war"

The Supreme Court ruled in the Prize Cases that Lincoln had every right to do so, in keeping with his role as the executor of the laws of the land.

"imprisoned without warrant or trial some 13,000 Northern citizens who opposed his policies; arrested dozens of newspaper editors and owners and, in some cases, had federal soldiers destroy their printing presses; censored all telegraph communication;"

All the more power to Lincoln. I say hurrah. Down with the Traitor! Up with the Stars!

"nationalized the railroads; created three new states (Kansas, Nevada, and West Virginia) without the formal consent of the citizens of those states, an act that Lincoln’s own attorney general thought was unconstitutional;"

He didn't nationalize the railroads except as military necessity required it. If the three states didn't like it, they could have left the union too. And have been put down with a vengeance. Last I checked, the citizens of West Virginia left Virginia because they wanted to remain in the Union.

"ordered Federal troops to interfere with Northern elections; deported a member of Congress from Ohio after he criticized Lincoln’s unconstitutional behavior;"

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. He sent soldiers home to vote. What a crime. God forbid soldiers vote for their commander in chief. I know it enrages you. Just as one contemporary put it, the Democrats objected to soldiers voting because they were as dangerous to their treasonous plans in the ballot box as they were on the battlefield.

"confiscated private property; confiscated firearms in violation of the Second Amendment; and eviscerated the Ninth and Tenth Amendments."

Woe is me. I'm surprised most of you ignorant slavehounds know what the word "eviscerated" is.

"A New Orleans man was executed for merely taking down a U.S. flag;"

I wish I could have had the opportunity to participate as a member of the firing squad.

"ministers were imprisoned for failing to say a prayer for Abraham Lincoln, and Fort Lafayette in New York harbor became known as "The American Bastille" since it held so many thousands of Northern political prisoners."

Wasn't it your hero who shouted, "Thus always to tyrants?" Well, I say, "Thus always to traitors!"

Lincoln further arrested legislatures of Maryland who opposed the war and apponted their replacements.

That is sheer blather, not based in fact or reality.

"He claimed the right to arrest anyone because he had suspended habeas corpus."

You breathless rebel. You are repeating yourself.

"When the Chief Justus of the Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional Lincoln ordered him arrested too"

Taney? Oh what a valiant slavehound you are. Yes, let's put Taney's mug on Mount Rushmore. All hail the man who said the slave is not a man, but property! HOW JEFFERSONIAN!

Everything Natural Law stated in post #19 is historical fact.

No it isn't.

"Don't besmirch the memory of Lincoln..."

Since when is stating UNREFUTED facts about Lincoln besmirching his memory? Everything Natural Law stated in post #19 is historical fact.

In point of fact, #19 is riven with falsehood and distortion -- the hallmark of the neo-confederate.

Walt