Authentic News with Jim Fetzer, February 25, 2026 Hour 2

At 16:25.
“I took great … pride in America and its history”

“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”)

“a war of aggression that was fought with a barbarity that horrified the civilized world”

“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)

“What equitable reason can be assigned for the action of the Federal power in violently overthrowing the government of the late Confederate States, founded, as it was, on the consent of the governed, and fully answering all the purposes for which human governments are instituted? … If we conscientiously believe that the popular consent is a necessary condition of all legitimate government, how shall we justify the compulsory imposition of Federal authority on the southern people … ?” (The Old Guard; Dec. 1867, p. 942)

“On July 8, the entire town, including the homes of the workers, was burned to the ground. Having destroyed the entire town, only the population remained, most of them women and children with a few men. The women and children were separated from the men and herded into wagons. The wagon train then set off for Marietta, Georgia, some 16 miles away. During the journey the women were forced to endure the sexual advances of the Union soldiers. [They were raped.] In Marietta the group was joined by a similar group of deported women from Roswell, Georgia. On July 20, the entire group of women and children were shipped by train from Georgia to Louisville, Kentucky. Not one woman or child is known to have returned to New Manchester.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“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”; Liberty Bell, Aug. 1988)

“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)

“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”)

“‘[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”)

“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 their 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”.

“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)

“[They] have at last dropped the hypocritical cry of war for the Union, and have boldly run up their own true black and piratical flag of war for subjugation and extermination….

“‘The South shall be destroyed!’ is the hellish watchword inscribed upon the black banners of the Republican party. ‘The South shall be destroyed!’ is the damnable eloquence of Congress. ‘The South shall be destroyed,‘ is the brutal jargon of the pulpits! ‘The South shall be destroyed,‘ is the cry of slavering ignorance in the streets! These accursed words of barbarism are everywhere belching forth like hot flame out of the bottomless pit.” (The Old Guard, July 1864, pp. 146–147)

“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”)

“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)

“Before the torches in the hands of his troops, houses, barns, mills, farming implements, all disappeared in flame. Women and children were seen flying by the light of burning dwellings; corn, wheat, and forage—the only supplies left the inhabitants—were seized or destroyed; the very ploughs and rakes were broken up, and rendered useless. From the women, greybeards, and children, threatened with starvation, went up a cry to God for vengeance on the author of this enormity.

“‘I have destroyed,’ said General Sheridan, in his official report, ‘two thousand barns filled with wheat and hay, and farming implements; over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over four thousand head of stock; and have killed and issued to the troops not less than three thousand sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray Valley, and the Little Fort Valley, as well as the main valley.'” (The Old Guard; Dec. 1867, p. 893)

“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”)

“[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)

“‘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.‘” (https://www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/the-rebel-and-the-renegade-roundtable-w-mike-gaddy-steven-douglas-whitener-november-23-2025 ; 35:51)

“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)

“‘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)

“At Palmyra, in Missouri, General McNeil murdered, in cold blood, ten soldiers of the Confederacy [prisoners of war]…. President Davis ordered by telegraph the execution in retaliation, of ten Yankee prisoners…. [T]he telegraphic order was never executed; … and the Palmyra massacre was … unavenged….” (Edward A. Pollard; The Third Year of the War (1864); p. 199)

“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)

“Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout the nation. He assumed the power to close newspapers and in fact closed hundreds of them in the North which dared criticize his policies. He arrested elected officials, including former members of Congress, who opposed him.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“At a recent Lincoln campaign meeting in the village of West Hoboken, N.J., the speaker said: ‘We have to complain of Mr. Lincoln that he has not built a bastile in every school district, and erected a gallows at the corner of every street in the North, to punish the opposers of his government.‘ This speech was applauded by the Republican crowd that listened to it.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1864, p. 264)

“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)

“Even before he [Lincoln] 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 … 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)

Our masters solemnly assure us that after Lincoln was elected in 1860 (by only one third of the voters) there was a diabolical plot to kill him while he was on his way to Washington by derailing the train on which he was traveling, so he secretly left the train.

And yet his children and his wife remained on the “doomed” train.

And yet the “doomed” train made it safely to Washington.

“There is not a nation on earth that does not despise or laugh at us. The loudest in our boasts of freedom, we have patiently crouched under a despotism that no other people endure….

“Abraham Lincoln is a patricide. He has tried to kill his country…. He has made places for five hundred thousand more office-holders than this government ever knew before. He has trampled under his feet every clause of the Constitution that guarantees our most sacred personal rights…. For every man that voted for him in 1860, he has sacrificed a life. He has sent a corpse into almost every family in the land…. Personally he is a Satyr; socially, a goul. And yet it may be questioned if Abraham Lincoln … is not behind his party in the more positive qualities of brutality and vice. Unless they belie themselves, they are burning with a cannibal thirst for the blood of every Democrat in the land. They never open their mouths but to malign and threaten us…. If they are not assassins to-day, they profess that they will be to-morrow. They talk as familiarly of hanging us as they do of eating their daily bread. If we do not hold them to be braggarts and cowards, we must be ready to defend our lives from the murderer’s hand at every hour of the day and night.” (The Old Guard, Dec. 1864, p. 274)

“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)

“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”)

When the war ended, Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. General U. S. Grant, however, continued to own slaves after the war.

“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”)

“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)

“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)

Dear reader, please don’t forget. The world’s contempt and hatred for the Yankees who inflicted this satanic war on the South—and for their posterity—must be everlasting.

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“The American public has gradually gained awareness that everything government at any level tells them is a lie.”
(Paul Craig Roberts; “Rising Death Rates and Health Injuries from Covid Vax Can No Longer Be Covered up”; http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/12/03/rising-death-rates-and-health-injuries-from-covid-vax-can-no-longer-be-covered-up)

“Is there any way short of massive violence for Americans to regain control over their lives?”
(Paul Craig Roberts; “Rule by Quacks”; http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/08/01/rule-by-quacks)