Authentic News with Jim Fetzer, December 19, 2025 Hour 1

“How countries are destroyed, by Paul Craig Roberts”

That article says:

“In 2021 during the Biden regime, the statue of Robert E. Lee, in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, was taken down. With the statue went Virginia’s history.

“Robert E. Lee successfully defended Richmond during the War for the Merrill Tariff of 1861. Richmond fell only after Robert E. Lee surrendered his starving and barefoot Army of Northern Virginia, which the Confederacy could no longer provision. The removal of Lee’s statue has disgraced the state of Virginia for all time.”

Here’s more.

“When the Constitution was adopted by the votes of States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.” (Henry Cabot Lodge; Daniel Webster (1888); chap. VI)

“The first act of secession dates as far back as 1789, when eleven of the States, becoming dissatisfied with the old articles of confederation made in 1778, seceded and formed a second union. When in 1861 eleven of the States again seceded and united themselves under the style of the Confederate States of North America, they exercised a right which required no justification….” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 144)

“I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy…. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” (Lord Acton to Robert E. Lee, November 4, 1866)

“In 1828 the North put still heavier burdens upon the South, and proudly named its oppression ‘The American system,’ and plainly gave the South to understand that this system of southern depletion for northern plethora was one of the fixed institutions of the land. This system really divided the confederation into two sections—one of which was the recipient of constant increasing bounties from the government, and the other was compelled to pay them. It was a sharp financial war between the sections….” (The Old Guard, April 1865)

“The right of secession is, of course, implicit in the Constitution and was properly recognized by the New Englanders when it coincided with their own financial interests…. Years later, with characteristically Puritanic hypocrisy, the same people, threatened with loss of their lucrative exploitation of the South, claimed that the Union was sacred and indissoluble, and they eventually found and elected a backwoods politician who was willing to ‘save the Union’ by a war of aggression that was fought with a barbarity that horrified the civilized world—and, when successful, spread a moral and mortal infection to Europe.” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell; Jan. 1987; “WHY THE CONSTITUTION FAILED”)

“We have been mortified to hear this North, where we were born, braying like an ass about ‘rebellion‘ for almost four years now, when we know that not one in ten of the leather-lunged stentors know what they mean by ‘rebellion.’ Indeed it might puzzle a philosopher to comprehend how a ‘sovereign State’ can be a ‘rebel.’ We know that a subject can rebel against his government; but these States are not the subjects of the federal government. They are the sovereign framers, and masters, and owners of that government…. The Federal Government, which has no original, or sovereign attributes, and which acts only by ‘granted’ or ‘delegated’ powers, can rebel against the sovereign grantors of those powers—alas, we see that that is easy enough!—but let no man, who would not pass for a dolt, talk about the master rebelling against the servant, or the creator rebelling against the creature.…

“To help the fainthearted a little, let us ask, which State would have joined the Union had it supposed that, under no circumstances, of whatever oppression and wrong, could it ever resume its sovereign powers? Does any man believe that a single State would have agreed to the compact with such an understanding of its nature? … Some of the States expressly reserved this right, in terms, in the act adopting the Constitution; but is not the right implied by the principles of common law, in the very nature of the compact itself? …

“One of the most eminent of the early jurists of our country, Judge Rawle, in his Commentaries on the Federal Constitution, says:

“‘It depends on the State itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on the State itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded; which is, that in all cases the people have a right to determine how they will be governed. * * * * States, then, may wholly withdraw from the Union, but while they continue in the Union they must retain the character of representative republics.’ …

“The right of a State to withdraw from the Union for cause, or after the compact is broken by the other parties to it, is logically as plain as the right of a State to enter into the Union in the first place.…

“We are dealing only with this senseless assertion—which has become the foundation of an order of things never contemplated by the founders of the Union—that, ‘under no circumstances can a State withdrawfrom the Union.‘ Such an assertion we hold to be not only senseless, but monstrous. Such a principle carried out in all the relations of life, would put a stop to all the movements of civilization. Who would enter into compacts, partnerships, or bargains of any kind, if by so doing they bound themselves, beyond the reach of reparation or retreat, to adhere to contracts after they were broken by the other parties to them? It is certain that if such were the character of the compact of the Union, not one State would ever have become a party to it. The effort to change the character of the compact into an involuntary Union, is revolutionary, and should be abhorred by every State alike; for the existence of every State is alike involved in the issue.” (The Old Guard, Feb. 1865, pp. 49–56)

“This party … elected Mr. Lincoln in 1860, according to the legal and outward form of the Constitution, though against the will and wishes of two-thirds of the American people. This combination of certain States against certain other States of the American Union … is the most astounding anomaly in the history of mankind, for, while preserving the forms of Union, it was in substance the most absolute disunion possible, and while acting within legal formulas, it aimed at a revolution, wider, deeper, and deadlier than any the world has ever yet witnessed.” (The Old Guard; February 1864, pp. 32–33)

“The ranting and lying of the Abolitionists made possible the formation of the Republican Party, which was dominated and largely financed by many Jews, of whom the most important were the eight Seligman brothers….” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell; November 1984, page 5)

“A religious exchange attributes all the cruelties of this war to Adam’s fall…. We are more inclined to saddle Father Abraham with the whole thing.” (The Old Guard; February 1865, p. 96)

“In these disgraceful tricks, Lincoln has imitated those great masters of the art of destroying liberty. Even before he reaches the Capital, he pretends to discover a plot to destroy him on his way by rail at night from Harrisburgh. That was when he made his grand entrance into Washington like a thief, disguised in a Scotch cap and cloak…. But the trick was so bunglingly played that everybody saw through the disguises, and laughed at the too palpable fraud; for he sent his wife and children on the doomed train that was to be thrown off the track for the purpose of dashing him to pieces.” (The Old Guard; March 1864, p. 63)

The States created FedGov to be their servant; FedGov didn’t create the States. Some of the States recalled the authority they had delegated to FedGov and formed a country named The Confederate States of America. This country had its own constitution, currency, etc. A Stalinist type named “Honest Abe” Lincoln assumed dictatorial powers in the north and launched a savage, satanic invasion of the C.S.A.

“This new government, complete in all its parts, went smoothly and successfully into operation. The people were happy, justice was regularly administered, enterprise was stimulated, trade would have flourished, and prosperity overspread the land, but the people were early called away from these peaceful and profitable pursuits to employ their resources and energies in resisting a hostile invasion.” (The Old Guard, Dec. 1867, p. 947)

“The white population of New York and Pennsylvania was greater than that of the Confederate States. Manufacturing establishments of all descriptions rendered the North a self-sustaining people for all the requirements of peace or war, and, with these advantages, they retained those of an unrestricted commerce with foreign nations.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War)

“Liberia was established in 1821 … to provide a home for emancipated slaves from the United States…. Some idealists were surprised when the [Negroes], freed from slavery in the United States, promptly enslaved native [Negroes] after the Americans declared the country independent in 1847 and they were freed from White supervision.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Sporting Event”; Liberty Bell, October 1993)

“Not even the appearance of affection exists between husband and wife, or between parents and children. So little do they care for their offspring, that many offered to sell me any of their sons or daughters as slaves. They are, to speak the truth, in point of parental affection inferior to brutes.” (John Duncan; Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846; Vol. I, p. 79)

“The only articles of export at present are slaves and ivory.… Slavery exists on an immense scale in this country [Adamawa]; and there are many private individuals who have more than a thousand slaves.” (Henry Barth; Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (1857); Vol. II; p. 502)

“[M]y observations apply chiefly to persons of free condition, who constitute, I suppose, not more than one-fourth part of the inhabitants at large; the other three-fourths are in a state of hopeless and hereditary slavery.…” (Mungo Park; Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799, London); p. 24)

“Slavery is here so common, or the mind of slaves is so constituted, that they always appeared much happier than their masters; the women, especially, singing with the greatest glee all the time they are at work.” (Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney; Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in 1822, 1823, and 1824; Vol. IV, p. 38)

“The liability to fall into a condition of servitude is not so frightful here, however, as it is where there is a higher appreciation of personal liberty…. The African sees very little difference between the authority exercised over him by one whom he acknowledges as his master and the petty tyranny which is exercised by most African chiefs over their subjects; and so long as he is worked moderately, and treated kindly, he has but little cause for dissatisfaction, and not infrequently by his own choice places himself in this condition.” (Rev. J. Leighton Wilson; Western Africa (1856), p. 156)

“In times of necessity, however, a man will part with his parents, wives, and children, and when they fail, he will sell himself without shame. As has been observed, amongst many tribes the uncle has a right to dispose of his nephews and nieces.” (Richard F. Burton; The Lake Regions of Central Africa; Vol. II)

“You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters….” (Colossians 3:22; Goodspeed translation)

“Under pressure, at first coercion and now bribery, from White nations, the Congoids have officially renounced slavery and practice it only when they are unobserved. In Africa today [they] quite commonly trade a wife or two for a goat, cow, or other more valuable animal. They often give away their children, sell them for a small fee, or use them in [deadly] sport.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Divinest Poesy”; Liberty Bell, June 1993)

After the satanic war against the Confederacy ended, General U. S. Grant continued to own slaves.

“The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.” (H.L. Mencken)

“Lincoln’s ghastly war against the South … startled Europe by its bloody barbarity, so outrageous that Lord Palmerston for some time refused to believe the news from the United States, saying that such savagery was impossible for civilized men.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Beginning of the End”)

Yes, impossible for civilized men, but not impossible for Yankees.

“A leading organ of public opinion—of Northern, or New England public opinion—says: ‘We have the power to subjugate, or to annihilate, the South, and one or the other we are going to do.’ This programme is plainly announced. No robber ever stated his point more boldly; and we suppose we must take it as a correct declaration of New England morality. The principle, though shocking, has the merit of simplicity. Let us test it in another relation. A man may say, ‘I have the power to whip my father and to beat my mother, and I am going to do it.’ This may suit New England politics, and New England Christianity, but can it pass for an enlightened public morality? The question is not what we have the power to do, but what we have the right to do.” (The Old Guard, Feb. 1865, p. 49)

“The German writer correctly describes the aggression against the Southern states as ‘one of the most dreadful wars in the history of the world’…. The German author, by the way, perceives the hypocrisy of the pretense that the South was invaded ‘to save the Union.’ That pretext reminds one of the man who had religious scruples against divorce and accordingly saved his marriage by murdering his wife.” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell, Feb. 1992; “TO SEE OURSELVES”)

“This malevolent and venomous spirit … pervaded … Northern society. It was not only the utterance of such mobs as, in New York city, adopted as their war-cry against the South, ‘kill all the inhabitants,’ it found expression in the political measures, military orders, and laws of the government; it invaded polite society, and was taught not only as an element of patriotism, but as a virtue of religion.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 88)

“‘[W]hen any female shall by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.’

“This in essence was a ‘right to rape’ order which he [General Butler] issued to his troops…. Palmerston, the British Prime Minister, wrote to Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister in London the following concerning Butler’s order:

“‘I will venture to say that no example can be found in the history of civilized nations till the publication of this order of a general guilty in cold blood of so infamous an act as deliberately to hand over the female inhabitants of a conquered city to the unbridled license of an unrestrained soldiery.‘” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“The Yankee—who has followed up an extravagance of bluster by the vilest exhibitions of cowardice—who has falsified his prate of humanity by the deeds of a savage—who, in the South, has been in this war a robber, an assassin, a thief in the night, and at home a slave fawning on the hand that manacles him—has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 303)

“The despatches found on the body of Col. Dahlgren, who was killed near Richmond, will be quoted in disgrace of the name of the United States as long as our name shall last. They prove that the object of the last ‘raid on Richmond’ was to set fire to the city, full of women and children, without notice, and to murder its inhabitants…. This is not warfare; it is assassination. By the laws of war all who were taken in the act of attempting to execute such a plot were liable to be treated, not as prisoners of war, but as spies and assassins. Their lives were forfeited, if the Confederates had chosen to adhere strictly to the laws of war.” (The Old Guard, April 1864, p. 95)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“The Anglo-Saxon population of the whole western tier of counties in Missouri were deported from their homes by General Ewing’s General Order Number 11, which depopulated the region by forcibly evacuating the women and children on the shortest of notice, along with burning their houses and stealing their property.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

And remember that Missouri was not even part of the Confederacy.

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Sherman used Southern prisoners of war to clear mine fields by marching them back and forth across land outside Savannah where mines were suspected. Southern prisoners were also herded in front of Northern emplacements under Confederate artillery fire so as to force Southerners to fire on their own men. Thus in the siege of Charleston, 50 Confederate officers were placed in a holding pen in front of Fort Wagner on Morris Island, so as to expose them to the fire of Confederate batteries shelling the Northern positions.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Southern prisoners of war also seemed to have escaped Lincoln’s much acclaimed magnanimity. The death rate of Southern prisoners in Northern prison camps was much higher than the rate of Northern prisoners in Southern P.O.W. camps. To this disparity must be added the fact that the North could not claim lack of food or medicine as a reason for the horrifying high death rate in the prisons. In fact, the North refused to permit the shipment of medicine or food to Union prisoners in Southern hands. Jefferson Davis offered to pay two or three times the market price for medicine in commodities such as cotton, tobacco, or even gold for the exclusive use of Northern prisoners, to be dispensed by Northern surgeons. This offer was ignored by Lincoln. Finally, the Confederates offered to release 13,000 of the most desperate cases without an equivalent exchange by the Lincoln government. The Lincoln administration waited from August to October to collect the prisoners. After they were released, atrocity photographs of the men were circulated in the North to show how the typical prisoner in Southern hands was supposedly treated.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“The city of Atlanta, after its surrender, was burned to the ground, and only a handful of churches and a few outlying residences escaped the holocaust…. Captain Daniel Oakey of the Second Massachusetts Volunteers recounted the burning of Atlanta as follows: ‘Sixty thousand of us witnessed the destruction of Atlanta, while our post band and that of the 33rd Massachusetts played martial airs and operatic selections.'” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“‘Straggling through the country, and stealing every thing that they can lay their hands on, (says the correspondent,) whether of use or not to them, goes on. Helpless women and children are robbed of their clothes and bedding, their provisions taken from them, and by men who have no earthly use for them whatever.’ …

“‘A private letter received here not long since, from a soldier in one of our western armies, states that their march South was characterized by acts of vandalism, and wanton outrage, and fiendish cruelty disgraceful to a civilized people. Burning houses, desolated fields, and homeless households marked their path; while unlicensed robbery, indiscriminate plunder, and, not unfrequently, assassination completed the woeful picture presented by an invading army, which appeared to be without restraint, and whose only purpose would seem to be … to burn, pillage, and destroy as it went.‘

“Men who behave in this manner are not soldiers, but brigands…. It is painful to publish such things; but the people ought to know them, in order that they may understand why it is that the Southern people fight with such unnatural desperation, and why they have come to entertain such a sincere horror of Northern people. Generals who allow these crimes on the part of their soldiers, it is certain, are not fighting to restore the Union….” (The Old Guard, September 1863, pp. 234–235)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Among things cited by Burke Davis in The Long Surrender was the fact that after the Battle of Sharpsburg in Maryland, the Northerners announced that they would not permit anyone to accord Christian burials to the Southern soldiers of war—they ordered the bodies to be left out to rot and to decompose. Only after the rot had gotten to the point where the public’s health was being endangered were the rotted remains scooped together and buried in unmarked common ground.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Likewise, after the war … the North posted soldiers at military cemeteries to prevent Southern women from putting flowers on the graves of their deceased husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“If the northern States have a right to conquer the southern, then the southern States have also a right to conquer the northern, and so there is nowhere a principle of security, safety and rest. If we have a right to steal their spoons, and smash to pieces their pianos, to burn their dwellings and destroy their private property, they have the same right to do the same to us, and there the terrible doctrine hangs like a murderer’s sword over our heads, and the heads of our children, for all generations. The people of South Carolina have as much right to burn Boston, as the people of Massachusetts had to burn Charleston.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1867, p. 804)

“The people of South Carolina have as much right to burn Boston, as the people of Massachusetts had to burn Charleston.”

“Never, until we relinquish all right to coerce sovereign and co-equal sister States, shall we begin the work of restoration. That is precisely the point for which those States are contending—the right not to be coerced, not to be plundered, not to be murdered, whenever the Federal Government chooses. That point must be settled, and settled against the monstrous claims of the Federal Government, before there can be, or ought to be, any peace. Peace means simply a withdrawal of our invading armies. That, and that alone, is peace. Any other programme for peace is either a delusion or a fraud.” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1864, p. 206)

“Peace means simply a withdrawal of our invading armies.”

“I went to a Lieut.-Colonel … and asked him what he expected me to do; they had left me no provisions at all, and I had a large family, and my husband was away from home. His reply was short and pointed—‘Starve, and be damned, madam.’ … They hunted for whisky and money—their search proving fruitless, they loaded themselves with our clothing, bedding, &c.; broke my dishes; stole my knives and forks; broke open my trunks and chests, and took everything they could lay their hands on…. Then they came with their torches to burn our house, the last remaining building they had left. That was too much; all my pride … forsook me at the awful thought of my home in ruins…. I looked over the crowd, as they huddled together to give orders about the burning, for one face that showed a trace of feeling, or an eye that beamed with a spark of humanity, but finding none, I approached the nearest group, and, pointing to the children, I said, ‘you will not burn the house, will you? You drove these little children from one home and took possession of it, and this is the only remaining sheltering place they have.’ ‘You may thank your God, madam,’ said one of the ruffians, ‘that we have left you and your d—d brats with heads to be sheltered.’” (Mrs. Ricks (The Old Guard, August 1864, p. 171))

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“[T]he Second Massachusetts negro infantry, 700 strong, Col. Draper, a white man, commanding, with one hundred white cavalry, … started for the Northern Neck….

“On the route six negroes violated the person of Mrs. G. eleven times, she being the wife of a soldier of the Ninth Virginia cavalry….

“Where they went they were led by their officers and told, ‘You can go loose and do as you please.’” (The Old Guard, September 1864, p. 200)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“‘Two weeks ago 300 rebels passed 7 miles south of Waynesboro at night. At daybreak, 2 rebel prisoners were brought in. I felt much chagrin that the pickets had brought in the 2 and I reprimanded … [the lieutenant] for not having obeyed my orders and yours which were to bring in no prisoners. Lieutenant Kerr … took the 2 prisoners out of the guard tent and shot them dead.‘” (www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/the-rebel-and-the-renegade-roundtable-w-mike-gaddy-steven-douglas-whitener-november-23-2025 ; 35:51)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Since these are the latest recognized rules of civilized warfare, can we wonder that all Europe agree in expressions of surprise and horror at the barbarities we have perpetrated upon the people of the South, from the very commencement of this war? Our army correspondents, who have written for the New York Times, Tribune, and Herald, have spread a knowledge of our brutality and barbarism broadcast over the whole world. A correspondent in Grant’s army, for the New York Tribune, in a letter published June 20th, gives the following between Gen. Butler’s Chief of Staff and a negro sergeant:

“‘Well,’ said Gen. Butler’s Chief of Staff to a tall sergeant, ‘you had a pretty tough fight there on the left.’ ‘Yes, sir; and we lost a good many good officers and men.’ ‘How many prisoners did you take, sergeant?’ ‘Not any alive, sir,’ was the significant response. Gen. Smith says, ‘They don’t give my Provost Marshal the least trouble, and I don’t believe they contribute toward filling any of the hospitals with Rebel wounded.’

“The amount of all this is that Butler’s Chief of Staff and the New York Tribune chuckle over the account the ebony devil gives of murdering wounded soldiers. It is a source of delight to them that these negroes take no prisoners, but assassinate their victims in cold blood. In any other country such acts would be punished with death; here, in this land demonized with the implacable, the hellish spirit of Abolitionism, they are sources of delight to all who keep company with the Republican party.” (The Old Guard, August 1864, pp. 172–173)

“all Europe agree in expressions of surprise and horror at the barbarities we have perpetrated upon the people of the South”

“have spread a knowledge of our brutality and barbarism broadcast over the whole world.”

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Before the eyes of Europe the mask of civilization had been taken from the Yankee war; it degenerated into unbridled butchery and robbery.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 88)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

On the part of the North, the war was pure, monstrous, satanic aggression.

On the part of the South, the war was purely defensive.

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Japan was not really ‘opened’ to foreign commerce until after a British fleet had bombarded the city of Kagoshima and reduced it to rubble, and another British fleet, with a few American, French, and Dutch vessels added to make it seem international, levelled Shimonoseki in 1864….” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Yellow Peril”)

The Yankees and the English sailed halfway around the world in 1864 to destroy a city in a country that was no threat to them, a country that had no modern weapons with which to defend itself.

Imagine this. After the shelling of their city begins, a Japanese couple and their little girl hastily seek shelter in a cellar. As the bombardment continues, the girl hears the yelping of her terrified puppy who is tied up in the yard. Before her parents can stop her, she runs outside to rescue him. A Yankee with a telescope in the crow’s-nest of his ship sees her and yells to the crew, “A little Jap bitch thinks she’s going to save her dog! Come on, men! Give her hell!” As she is carrying her pet and running back to the cellar, she is brought down by a piece of shrapnel in her guts. As she lies screaming in agony, the Yankee yells triumphantly, “She’s down! The Jap bitch is down!” And then all of the Yankees on the ship laugh and spontaneously begin singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Under the reign of Lincoln, everybody who opposed him was hunted down with the most merciless tyranny; they were thrown into bastiles, by telegraphic despatches, without any form of law, their property destroyed, and, in many instances, the most blameless citizens murdered.” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1867, p. 649)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“The Boston Courier thus paints the face of Lincolnism:

“‘The Administration has two methods of dealing with those who oppose its plans. The first is, if possible, to intimidate them into silence by threats, and, whenever they can, by the practice of illegal persecution and military terrorism. The second, applied to those who know their rights as citizens, and dare to assert them, is, to defame and abuse them through a subsidized press, to ruin them by false and malicious slanders, so cunningly worded as to be within the law, and so numerous as to defy contradiction.‘” (The Old Guard, September 1863, p. 239)

“All vestiges of constitutional liberty have long ago been lost in the North. The very term of ‘State rights’ is mentioned with derision … and the forms and ceremonies of a republic are the disguises of a cruel and reckless despotism.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); pp. 303, 304)

“In Mr. Lincoln’s letter, attempting to vindicate his arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, he says:—‘Arrests are made not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done.‘ … The American people have made themselves the wonder and the laughingstock of all Europe that they have so tamely submitted to such an intolerable despotism….” (The Old Guard, June 1863, p. 142)

“made themselves the wonder and the laughingstock of all Europe”

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“This is the kind of liberty and law which Mr. Lincoln proclaims through the most debased and pliant of all his tools, the editor of the Philadelphia Press:

“‘It makes no difference whether the person or citizen has been charged with crime, or even committed crime, if he is regarded as an enemy of the country; if his being at large at all affects the public peace or safety, he may be taken into custody until the danger is over.’

“But how, Sir, if the man whom you attempt to drag away to a dungeon sees fit to send you to the custody of Satan? How then? It is plainly his right; it is more—it is his duty; because the liberty of every other man is endangered by his refusal to stand out in just and manly defence of his rights. To a brave and virtuous man life is less dear than liberty and honor.” (The Old Guard, March 1863, p. 71)

“Mr. Lincoln has undertaken to use his provost-marshals as a local police all over the country, who have set aside the laws and officers of the States, even to the regulation of the kind of preaching to be had in the churches. These provost-marshals have imprisoned or banished ministers for refusing to pray for Lincoln. They have driven congregations out of their pews and closed the doors of the church, for the crime of keeping silence upon the question of the war.” (The Old Guard, May 1864, p. 106)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“It is a well-known fact, that this provision of the Constitution has been cruelly violated by the administration, by withholding from the victims of its persecution ‘the right of a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury’: for it has criminally refused any form of trial for months, while the accused were dying in prisons pleading to be tried, and demanding in vain to know what were the charges against them, and who were their accusers. And, whenever a trial did come, it was not by jury, but by a ‘military commission’ appointed by the President, and which conducted its mockings of justice in secret, without allowing the accused to be present, or to call a single witness in his defence. My God! is this America?” (The Old Guard, Jan. 1863, p. 16)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“History has some instances of the servile and unnatural joys of a people in the surrender of their liberties; but none grosser than that in which has been inaugurated the throne of Abraham Lincoln at Washington.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 302)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“We compelled you [‘Honest Abe’] to take an oath to support and obey the Constitution. How have you kept that oath? Let the thousands of citizens thrown into your abolition dungeons, in violation of the constitution, answer. Let the suspended courts of justice answer. Let the incarcerated Judges answer. Let imprisoned clergymen answer. Let violated women answer. Let a bleeding and dying nation answer.” (The Old Guard, June 1863, p. 139)

“Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the greatest and bloodiest rebellion ever recorded in the annals of mankind. His whole course was a rebellion, or a war, against not only the fundamental principles of liberty, but it was a war upon civilization and upon society. His generals not only plundered private property, but they murdered nonbelligerent and unarmed people, not even sparing women and children.” (The Old Guard, June 1867, p. 460)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“[I]n four brief years [Lincoln] did more evil to mankind than the worst man that ever lived accomplished in a lifetime. The cause he led is the most unnatural, impious, and sinful that has ever afflicted the world, and the means of its accomplishment the vilest, most dishonest, and devilish that ever degraded our race, or stained the earth since time began.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1867, p. 844)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“Mr. Lincoln may call upon the mountains to fall upon him, but he must not rely upon ex post facto laws, or any other laws, passed in violation of the statute and common law of the land, to shield him from deserved punishment. There is not a county, from Washington to Sangammon county, in Illinois, in which he is not liable to arrest, both in a civil and criminal suit. It is not in the power of Congress to save him. Nothing but death can save him—and that will, we fear, send him to a more inexorable bar than that of the offended justice of his country.” (The Old Guard, October 1863, p. 271)

“Only in a community, demoralized and debased by the vices of war, and the lusts of illegal power, could a monument to such a man as Lincoln long stand to insult the sunlight and blast the vision of decent men!” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1867, p. 650)

“The following resolution, read by a leading clergyman of the Methodist Church, at the late annual session of that body, is a fair specimen of the intelligence of the now dominant political party of our country:

“‘Resolved, That all government is based upon the religious ideas of those who carry it on, and that the Northern Methodists have acquired by conquest the right to control the religion of the South. That it is just as wrong to allow the Southern Methodists to meet and worship in their way as it would be to allow Lee and Johnston to call together and drill their armies again. They will soon be prohibited from so doing. The religion of the North is bound to rule this continent, and it proposes to make a proper application of our Bible to all the Southern States and people. A subjugated people have no more right to apply their own peculiar moral ideas, than to use their physical implements of war.‘” (The Old Guard, August 1868, p. 561)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“[T]he original aim of the 14th Amendment was to ensure the political and economic hegemony of the Northern states over the South. This was why Lincoln and Northern business interests waged total war against the South for four years: to transform the United States from a constitutional republic into a continental empire….

“Section Four protected Northern politicians, military leaders, and businessmen who perpetrated financial fraud in the course of the war from future prosecution and ensured that the North would never have to pay reparations for the theft and destruction it committed against the South….

“[T]he Radical Republicans who controlled Congress unilaterally changed the composition of Congress in order to procure the needed majorities. In violation of the Constitution’s Article I, Sections 2, 3, and 5, and in particular Article V (‘that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate’), they unlawfully excluded the 61 representatives and 22 senators from the Southern states. Moreover, they counted the votes of West Virginia and Nevada—both unconstitutional entities created by Lincoln as part of his war measures.

“Even after taking these steps, however, the proposed amendment still faced defeat in the Senate by one vote if the vote of Sen. John P. Stockton of New Jersey, an outspoken critic of the 14th Amendment, was counted. So the Radical Republicans unlawfully expelled him from the Senate as well.

“The votes in both the House and Senate approving the proposed 14th Amendment were, therefore, fraudulent.…

“By March 1, 1867, 12 States had rejected the 14th Amendment. This left only 25 states, three fewer than the U.S. Constitution required for adoption. Later, Maryland and California both voted to reject the amendment, while three states that had ratified it—New Jersey, Ohio, and Oregon—rescinded their respective ratifications, citing voter fraud. While Congress rejected these rescissions, the damage had been done. The 14th Amendment had been constitutionally defeated.…

“With the Reconstruction Acts, Congress declared ‘no legal state governments’ existed in ten Southern states, even though Congress had officially recognized these state governments as legitimate since 1865. The adoption of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery depended upon ratification by seven of these states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia—for the required three-fourths majority. Branding them ‘rebel’ states, Congress proceeded to abolish their governments. The South was divided into five military districts and, in blatant violation of both Article I, Section 9, of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Ex parte Milligan three months earlier, was placed under martial law.…

“Through violence, intimidation, coercion, and fraud, through martial law, through congressional threats to confiscate and redistribute all the property of Southern whites, through removal of Southern governors and judges, and through congressional repeal of state laws requiring a majority of registered voters for the adoption of a new state constitution, Congress successfully created ‘provisional governments.’ By 1868, these provisional governments had duly ratified the 14th Amendment (Congress having made ratification a requirement for readmission into the Union). However, under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, only states in the Union can ratify an amendment. Since Congress declared that these provisional governments were not states in the Union and, thus, had denied them representation in Congress, the provisional governments could not ratify this amendment. Therefore, the 14th Amendment remains unratified….

“The government of the United States, as established by the U.S. Constitution in 1789, was effectively abolished by the 14th Amendment. In its place was substituted a regime that resembles the absolutist centralized state envisioned by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan.…

“Thanks to folly, hubris, and the 14th Amendment, the government of the United States is faithfully following in the footsteps of ancient Rome—from republic to empire to oblivion.” (Joseph E. Fallon; “Law, Power, Legitimacy, and the 14th Amendment”)

“has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.”