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To: Gondring
It took me a long time to admit to myself these things about Lincoln...

Not hard at all. Close your eyes long enough and you're there. Just like the nolu creature.

486 posted on 01/21/2005 5:09:16 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur; Gondring
[Gondring] It took me a long time to admit to myself these things about Lincoln...

[Non-Sequitur] Not hard at all. Close your eyes long enough and you're there. Just like the nolu creature.

Non-Seq, you may close your eyes to the facts all you want. They will not go away.

Writing of Lincoln at the Last Cabinet Meeting of April 14, 1865, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles observed that

Link page 526

"He thought it providential that this great rebellion was crushed just as Congress had adjourned, and there were none of the disturbing elements of that body to hinder and embarrass us. If we were wise and discreet, we should reanimate the States and get their governments in successful operation, with order prevailing and the Union reestablished, before Congress came together in December. This he thought important. We could do better; accomplish more without than with them."

When he became President, Lincoln waited until the day after the Senate adjourned and then took measures to have the nation involved in a full-blown shooting war before Congress convened again.

When looking at the Last Cabinet Meeting, it would appear that Lincoln wanted to finish things up the way he started -- while Congress was out of session. Bypassing Congress the first time was no accident, rather it was Lincoln's modus operandi.

LINCOLN'S LAST CABINET MEETING

Excerpted from:
Lincoln and Johnson
Their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority
First Paper
by Gideon Welles
Galaxy Magazine, April 1872, pp. 525-527

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487 posted on 01/21/2005 7:41:21 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: Non-Sequitur
[Non-Sequitur] Not hard at all. Close your eyes long enough and you're there. Just like the nolu creature.

Look at what the taxpayers paid for during the administration of the lincoln creature.

For a real eye-opener, read the letter submitted by James Mitchell to Abraham Lincoln. It was a job-winning letter. Mitchell was brought into the administration as Minister of [Black] Emigration and stayed on until released by Andrew Johnson. The letter was turned into a pamphlet and printed by the Government Printing Office at taxpayer expense. Mitchell makes David Duke look like a moderate. This is the administration of the lincoln creature in private.

LINK to Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

James Mitchell to Abraham Lincoln May 18, 1862 (Pamphlet)

REV. JAMES MITCHELL
18 MAY 1862

LETTER ON THE RELATION OF THE WHITE AND AFRICAN RACES IN THE UNITED STATES
SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF THE COLONIZATION OF THE LATTER

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require a separation of the colored or negro race from us

Yet, terrible as is this civil war between men of kindred race for the dominion of the servant, future history will show that it has been moderate and altogether tolerable when contrasted with a struggle between the black and white race, which, within the next one or two hundred years must sweep over this nation,

the removal of the colored race to a proper locality... Surely this exercise of influence is a legitimate prerogative of the Chief Magistrate, the guardian of national peace, who, being convinced of impending danger to the country, has the undoubted right to notify the nation of its approach, and recommend the remedy.

Our danger in the future arises from the fact that we have 4,500,000 persons, who, whilst amongst us, cannot be of us - persons of a different race

The social and civil evils resulting from the presence of the negro race are numerous

the license of the races, which is giving to this continent a nation of bastards.

That political economist must be blind indeed; that statesman must be a shallow thinker, who cannot see a fearful future before this country, if the production of this mixed race is not checked by removal.

possibly the next great civil war will be the conflict of this race for dominion and existence.

this population is in the way of the peace of the country

Thus far we have found that their presence here disturbs our social structure. We come now to examine how far our civil structure is damaged by this population.

But there is one clause of this sacred compact which requires the Federal government to "guarantee to the several States a republican form of government." . . . When rightly construed it must and will require the gradual removal of such anti-republican elements and peoples as cannot be engrafted on the national stock

It is admitted on all hands that our mixed and servile population constitute the root of those issues and quarrels; what shall be done with them is the question of the hour.

this repulsive admixture of blood

the men of the Exeter Hall school, who, far removed from the scene of danger, see not the degradation of this admixture of race.

he does not choose to endanger the blood of his posterity by the proximity of such a population; that here is no command in the Word of God that will oblige him to place this race on the high road to such an amalgamation with his family

they rejected the black because they could not or would not amalgamate on legal or honorable terms.

Nothing but the authority of the Divine law will change his purpose to hedge himself in and erect legal protections against this possible admixture of blood,

Where men are truly moral and religious, the white and black races do not mix, so that the influence of religion will never effect fusion,

hatred of those who would engraft, as they say, negro blood on the population of their country

We must regard the extension of equal social and civil rights to this class of persons as distasteful to the mass of the nations; the majority will never submit to it

we cannot make republican citizens out of our negro population

a possible corruption of blood in future generations

The government of Great Britain is composed of a few thousand titled and privileged persons, located in a small island, who are born to rule and govern. From their isolated position it is not possible for them to come in contact with the numerous, heterogeneous, and inferior tribes and races under their rule. They are thus protected from possible admixture of inferior blood

How can such a people comprehend the necessity or use of removing the man of color?

to protect them against this repulsive admixture of blood

What is to protect us as a people from degenerating as a race, but the resolve to receive no blood from the other races but that which can be honorably and safely engrafted on the stock of the nation.

Let us then, earnestly and respectfully recommend as a remedy for our present troubles and future danger, the perfecting the proposed plans of the administration in regard to those two conflicting races, and the careful and gradual removal of the colored race to some desirable and convenient home.

Some affect to fear that the man of color will not remove to a separate locality. It is not to be expected that a race, which has hardly attained a mental majority, will rise in a day to the stature of the men who found empires, build cities, and lay the ground work of civil institutions like ours; nor should they be expected to do this unaided and alone. They should receive the kind attention, direction, and aid of those who understand such things; nor will the world condemn a gentle pressure in the forward course to overcome the natural inertia of masses long used to the driver's will and rod. Let us do justice in the provision we make for their future comfort, and surety they will do justice to our distracted Republic.

If they should fail to do this, there would then be more propriety in weighing the requirement of some to remove without consultation, but not till then.

We know that there is a growing sentiment in the country which considered the removal of the freed man, without consulting him, "a moral and military necessity" -- as a measure necessary to the purity of public morals and the peace of the country; and this unhappy war of white man with white man, about the condition of the black, will multiply this sentiment.

But we cannot go further now than suggesting, that the mandatory relation held by the rebel master should escheat to the Federal government in a modified sense, so as to enable his proper government and gradual removal to a proper home where he can be independent.

We earnestly pray that a perpetual barrier may be reared between us and that land of the mixed races of this continent - Mexico.

As Abraham and Lot agreed to separate their conflicting retainer and dependents, the one going to the right and the other to the left, so let those two governments agree to divide this continent between the Anglo-American and mixed races



488 posted on 01/21/2005 7:55:06 PM PST by nolu chan
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