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Well, well, well. It turns out you are a little old lady. Never in my wildest dreams have I imagined a little old lady "spitting" (let alone, on Lincoln and his memory). I'm reminded that Abe once blamed the war on a "little old lady". Pardon my mysoginistic mistake (I thought it odd that a guy would be a librarian.)

Anyway, I checked out your FR link to the old thread because I had not heard of Henry Charles Carey. I should have smelled it coming from a mile off. Guess who I found at your link. The one and only, great aggregator of never before heard, yet so excoriating facts about Abe Lincoln; the one man show Thomas DiLorenzo! So sad. So sad. You show very poor discrimination in what you will read. Just because you can read DiLorenzo doesn't mean you should. To me, now, you are just another fake history sucker.

Time for you to re-read Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone Speech". Try to focus more on what people like Fredrick Douglas and General Robert E. Lee had to say about Lincoln. Ya know, other great men who were his contemporaries. If the gypsys show up at your door trying to sell you a repaving job, call the police.

It seems Lincoln's "economic guru", Henry Carey, felt that the economic division in the USA was caused by the British:

“The Executive [Lincoln] is frequently compelled to affix his signature to bills of the highest importance, much of which he regards as wholly at war with the national interests. “To British free trade it is, as I have shown, that we stand indebted for the present Civil War. Had our legislation been of the kind which was needed for giving effect to the Declaration of Independence, that great hill region of the South, one of the richest, if not absolutely the richest in the world, would long since have been filled with furnaces and factories, the laborers in which would have been free men, women, and children, white and black, and the several portions of the Union would have been linked together by hooks of steel that would have set at defiance every effort of the ‘wealthy capitalists’ of England for bringing about a separation. Such, however, and most unhappily, was not our course of operation. Rebellion, therefore, came, bringing with it an almost entire stoppage of the societary movement, with ruin to a large proportion of those of the men...”

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "Well, well, well. It turns out you are a little old lady. Never in my wildest dreams have I imagined a little old lady "spitting" (let alone, on Lincoln and his memory). I'm reminded that Abe once blamed the war on a "little old lady". Pardon my mysoginistic mistake (I thought it odd that a guy would be a librarian.)

I come from a family of patriots. We don't suffer tyrants lightly.

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "The one and only, great aggregator of never before heard, yet so excoriating facts about Abe Lincoln; the one man show Thomas DiLorenzo! So sad. So sad. You show very poor discrimination in what you will read. Just because you can read DiLorenzo doesn't mean you should. To me, now, you are just another fake history sucker.

Perhaps you will bless us with portions of your vast library of Dilorenzo's historical errors.

No? You have no library? Not even a single error? Okay, I will make it easier. Demonstrate to us that Lincoln did not supress the freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right to keep and bear arms, of the Northern States, during his "great struggle" to save the constitution. Certainly the Northern States had his back, right?

Never mind. Forget that. We know that Lincoln was a terror to any opposition, Northern or Southern. Lincoln's "great struggle" was not to save the constitution, but to "save" the Union from the constitution.

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "Time for you to re-read Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone Speech". Try to focus more on what people like Fredrick Douglas and General Robert E. Lee had to say about Lincoln."

How about you reading, for the first time, some of those authors and publications not suppressed by our progressive government?

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "Ya know, other great men who were his contemporaries. If the gypsys show up at your door trying to sell you a repaving job, call the police.

And if the government shows up at your door saying, "We are here to help you", hide under your mattress if you do not have time to run for the hills.

DoodleDawg, you wrote, "It seems Lincoln's "economic guru", Henry Carey, felt that the economic division in the USA was caused by the British:

Is he the one who is on record declaring that nothing less than a dictator is required to make a really good tariff? Wasn't he also promoter of big-government mercantilism, in the mold of Hamilton?