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How Abraham Lincoln's presidency paved the way for today's bloated "Leviathan" government
"No honest student of American history can avoid coming to terms with this work." -- Clyde N. Wilson, University of South Carolina
Lincoln Uber Alles: Dictatorship Comes to America
by John Avery Emison
"The central truth about the Civil War is that it was
not simply a conflict between North and South; it was a
conflict between the Southern states and the federal
government. The federal government won, and the Feds have
been winning ever since." That is John Avery Emison's bold
and controversial premise in Lincoln Uber Alles:
Dictatorship Comes to America, which "takes almost
everything you learned in school about the Civil War and
turns it right-side up."
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Debunking the myth that the Civil War was a war for
racial justice, Emison reveals that it was actually a
battle over the economic disparities between the North and
the South. By examining Supreme Court findings, he
demonstrates not only that the Southern states were well
within their rights to withdraw from the Union in 1860, but
also that secession is still legal today. And, by
illustrating how Abraham Lincoln's tyrannical presidency
paved the way for today's bloated "Leviathan" government,
Emison brings his subject into the twenty-first century and
puts forth his fear for the future.
In Lincoln Uber Alles, John Avery Emison reveals:
- Why Southern secession was legal -- according to no fewer
than three Supreme Court doctrines expounded in numerous
rulings that were the law of the land at the time and
remain so today
- How the Civil War was an illegal counter-revolution to
free the federal government from constitutional
restrictions on its power
- How the initiation of the war had nothing to do with
either ending slavery or preserving the Union -- and,
technically speaking, it accomplished neither
- Northerners had no interest in racial justice -- and, for
the most part, they despised and hounded free blacks and
enacted Jim Crow laws as a means of preventing them from
crossing into Northern states
- Virtually everything Lincoln did to defeat secession was
illegal -- including the declaration of war without a
vote of Congress, the invasion of states and overthrow of
state governments, the blockade of Southern ports, the
arbitrary impressments of Southerners into U.S. Army
ranks, and the attacks on civilian noncombatants and
deliberate destruction of private property
- How Lincoln illegally suppressed political opposition in
the North -- by, for instance, arresting civilians,
mayors and other Northern officials; suspending habeas
corpus, shutting down newspapers, and threatening to
arrest Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney
- Why Lincoln and his generals were war criminals under
their own military code of justice, the Lieber Code --
and would have been hanged if they had lost the war
"In the 21st century, America is haunted by Lincoln's
blood lust for a coercive, dominant, unitary,
unaccountable, debt-laden central government," concludes
Emison. "That is why this book matters. Abraham Lincoln
opened the door to the Leviathan central state that
mandates, manipulates, and regulates virtually every aspect
of life in America and seeks unilateral hegemony around the
globe."
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