Lincoln And Corwin
4/7/2009
As this year passes we will continue, no doubt, to be treated to stories about Abraham Lincoln, the “great emancipator.” This was supposedly the man who “freed” the slaves (he freed no one). This was the man who, supposedly, had a fond spot in his heart for all black folks (actually he was a flaming racist) and even today they continue to revere his name as though he were Moses leading them through the Red Sea. Actually Lincoln did lead them (and the rest of us through the Red sea. Most just don’t have the sense to realize that yet).
Actually, Lincoln’s primary goal was preserving the Union, a Union that, in his mind, had always existed, and one in which the individual states had no real say in what they did, except as allowed by the central government in Washington. In other words, in Lincoln’s “Union” the states were totally free to do whatever Washington wanted them to do. Mr. Lincoln didn’t care a flip one way or the other whether slavery flourished or not. As proof of this, witness his support for the Corwin Amendment. “What’s that?” you ask. You mean you never read about that in your government school history books? Wonder why that is. Maybe it’s just one of those little facts the public “educators” and their friends in government and the publishing industry felt you would be much better off not knowing about. After all, you can’t ask embarrassing questions if you don’t know, can you?
Harold
