General Odom on Mr. Lincoln's War
Remember when the red-white-and-bloodthirsty crowd screamed for Ron Paul's head because he said Lincoln did not fight the Civil War to free slaves, but to consolidate power in DC?
Well, testifying before the US Senate yesterday, Lt. General William Odom said pretty much the same thing:
Ask them to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strong men to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner, most often a dictator. That is the history of feudal Europe’s transformation to the age of absolute monarchy. It is the story of the American colonization of the west and our Civil War.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Thursday, April 03, 2008
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Gen. Odom is correct. The War for Southern Independence was fought by the North to have a centralized government in Washington, DC. The South were the Federalist who wanted to preserve the Constitution as it was writen. Lincoln was supported by the "1848ers" who were Socialist and Communist from Europe. Lincoln did not like blacks and thought them inferior. Read the meeting he had in the White House on 12 Aug 1862 on "Colonization of blacks" after the war. He call in the black leaders on this date and explained that they would be colonized or sent back to Africa.
Freddie C. Sligh
El Dorado, AR 71730
Mr. Sligh,
Too bad more people aren't familiar with this.
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