by James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln caused the greatest slaughter of Americans in our history. He was originally elected with only 40 percent of the vote in a three-way race. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln stated that he didn’t think Blacks should be citizens or given the right to vote. Perhaps someone should have asked Lincoln if he would wage war on his own people if the South seceded.

Lincoln claimed two reasons for fighting the Civil War: (at first) preserving the Union and (by 1862) freeing the slaves. Most historians have been mindlessly supportive of this view of history. The truth is the South was badly overtaxed by the Union. One website notes “The former Vice-President John C. Calhoun put it this way: ‘The North had adopted a system of revenue and disbursements in which an undue proportion of the burden of taxation has been imposed upon the South, and an undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the North…’ ” Another unspoken reason for fighting a war was Lincoln’s ego. Lincoln failed to assure the South that they would be treated fairly. Lincoln was just another lying yankee politician who would continue to impose an unfair tax burden. Lincoln did not want to go down in history as the man who caused the South to secede so he chose to kill his fellow Americans in the name of “unity.”

Slavery was on the way out by 1861. England and France had outlawed slavery by then and it was only a matter of time before all White nations followed their example. All the European colonial nations outlawed slavery without having to fight a war over it. Slavery was also becoming obsolete. One website notes “A picking device (for cotton) was first patented in 1850 and a stripper (a machine that strips both open and unopened bolls and trash from the plant) in 1871.” The need for slaves to pick cotton was disappearing. Why would a plantation owner want two hundred slaves, who might revolt one day and murder his family if a mechanical device and a team of horses could pick the cotton just as well? Slavery would have disappeared by the 1870s. There was absolutely no reason for a gigantic civil war and the deaths of 600,000 Americans over an issue that would have gone away on its own within fifteen years.

Four score and seven years before Lincoln became president, the Founding Fathers were suffering under a British tyranny. They were being excessively taxed and had no political representation. The complaints of the Founding Fathers sounded remarkably similar to the complaints of politicians in the South. The growing population of the North and the addition of several non-slave states were causing the South to lose its ability to vote down federal laws detrimental to the South.

The Declaration of Independence begins: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” The Southern states felt the same alienation and the same need to “dissolve the political bands” that were oppressing them.

In one of the greatest acts of political hypocrisy in human history, Lincoln decided to fight a long bloody civil war to brutally impose federal rule on the South. There was no need to fight a war to “preserve the Union.” The nation of Canada was peacefully co-existing to the north of the United States. No serious politician claimed that the existence of Canada was a threat to the United States or that a war had to be fought to annex that nation (although there was some jingo-ism about the 54-40 parallel). The Confederacy would have been just as non-threatening as Canada, but living in peace with the South was not tolerable for Mr. Lincoln.

The secession of the southern states was an enormous blow to Lincoln’s ego. Instead of coping with reality and admitting a personal defeat, Lincoln’s first move was to provoke a war with the South. Federal forts in the South were maintained and sent supplies as Lincoln raised an army with the intent of invading the South. The South did not appreciate the presence of Northern troops deep within their territory as the North mobilized for war. Fort Sumter was fired on and surrendered without the loss of even one life. Lincoln used that incident to declare war on the South.

To camouflage Lincoln’s selfish reasons for punishing the south, Lincoln eventually decided to “free the slaves” as announced after the battle of Antietam in the famous Emancipation Proclamation. At the outset of the war “honest” Abe had promised slave-holding states on the border with the South that he would not abolish slavery to convince them to stay in the Union. One website notes “Regarding slaves in states loyal to the government or occupied by Union troops, Lincoln proposed three constitutional amendments in his December 1862 State of the Union message to Congress. The first was that slaves not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation be freed gradually over a 37-year period, to be completed by January 1, 1900. The second provided compensation to owners for the loss of their slave property. The third was that the government transport freed Blacks, at government expense, out of the country and relocate them in Latin America and Africa.” So Lincoln had no problem with Blacks staying slaves until Jan. 1st, 1900. Slavery would have ended faster than that with an independent South.

The Founding Fathers never intended Blacks to be citizens of the US. The Blacks had been brought here to work as farm animals and were legally considered property. Abraham Lincoln and his successors turned the Blacks into citizens leading to over 140 years of interracial murders and rapes in a racially integrated society. About 600,000 Whites were killed in the Civil War and an additional 50,000 Whites have been murdered by Blacks, thanks to Lincoln’s handiwork.

If the South were allowed to secede, it would have been a good trading partner with the North (much like Canada), but it would not be subject to excessive federal tariffs. The South could sell its cotton to Europe without federal interference. Slavery would have become obsolete in the 1870s. The Blacks would have been expatriated to Africa or possibly Haiti after that. Once slavery was abolished and the Blacks expatriated, the North and South might have merged back together. Not one American would have had to die in a Civil War to accomplish what took four bloody years of warfare costing the nation a huge death toll that even included Abraham Lincoln himself.