Many Lincoln aficionados each year eagerly await the month of February so they can bombard us with pseudohistory about Abraham Lincoln the supposed “great emancipator.” Our students in those indoctrination centers we are still foolish enough to think of as public schools will be treated to all manner of historical fables about how Lincoln “freed” the slaves (he actually freed no one). This is the man, so they inform us, who had a fond spot in his heart for black folks. Actually he was a flaming racist, yet black people continue to revere him as though he were Moses parting the Red Sea for them so they could walk across to the promised land of freedom. Actually Lincoln did lead them, and the rest of us as well, into the “Red” sea. Most have not figured that out yet. Give us another hundred years, if we still have a country, and maybe we’ll figure it out!


With the War of Northern Aggression, Lincoln’s primary goal was to preserve the Union with bayonets - a union that, in his mind, had existed before the different states had - in fact, had always existed, states or no states. And it was a union in which the individual states had no say in what they did, except as allowed by a central government in Washington. In other words, in Lincoln’s “Union” the states were totally “free” to do whatever Washington required them to do.


​Mr. Lincoln didn’t really give 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 was the Corwin Amendment, you might ask? You mean you never read about that in your public school “history” book? I guess that’s one of those little facts the public educators and their collaborators in the government and the publishing industry felt you’d be better off not being aware of. After all, if you don’t know, then you can’t ask any embarrassing questions they don’t have answers for, can you?


The Corwin Amendment was introduced into Congress in March of 1861. Its sponsor was Ohio Representative Thomas Corwin. That’s right folks, this man came from Ohio, not Georgia or Alabama. Some reports have stated that Corwin introduced this amendment to prevent the “Civil War.” It was presented to the Congress in the form of House (Joint) Resolution No. 80. The entire idea of the Corwin Amendment was to prohibit Congress from trying to ban slavery in whatever states there were that still permitted it. The Corwin Amendment would have stopped Congress from “abolishing or interfering with the ‘domestic institutions’ including persons held to labor or service (a reference to slavery)” Interestingly enough, a parallel resolution to the one in the House was introduced into the Senate by William H. Seward of New York, not Georgia or Louisiana, but New York. So both of these resolutions were originated with Northern, not Southern congressmen.

Even Wikipedia picked up on this, surprisingly, and they said: “However, the newly formed Confederate States of America was totally committed to independence, and so it ignored the Corwin Amendment.” Interesting. Our so-called “historians” have continued to inform us over the decades that the Southern states fled the Union solely so they could keep their slaves. no other reasons for their departure need apply.​

If that had truly been the case, here was a golden opportunity for them to keep their slaves and to get back into the Union so they could vote to do so. Yet they passed it up! You don’t just suppose they might have had other more compelling reasons for secession than the slavery question, do you? Like the problem with tariffs, for instance. Our court “historians” would never admit to that no matter what! We have to be conditioned to the “fact” that slavery was the only issue involved so we won’t ever ask any questions about any other issues they don’t want to answer. In that regard, I would point people to Gene Kizer’s book Slavery Was Not The Cause Of The War Between The States. 

In February of 1861 the House approved the resolution by a vote of 133-65 and in early March the Senate approved it by a vote of 24-12. The seven Southern states that had already seceded from the Union at that point didn’t bother to try to vote on the issue, leading to the inescapable conclusion that, for them, slavery was not the only sole and real issue. Had it been the only issue, no doubt they could have petitioned Washington and gotten back into the Union so they could have voted to keep their slaves.


Also worth noting here is the fact that the “great emancipator” did not oppose the Corwin Amendment. He said, in his first inaugural address: “(H)olding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law I have no objection to it’s being made express and irrevocable.” In other words, a Constitutional amendment that made slavery for life the rule of law didn’t bother Mr. Lincoln one iota!


According to Indopedia, “A young Henry Adams observed that the measure narrowly passed through both houses due to the lobbying efforts of Abraham Lincoln, the President-Elect.”


So it seems that the “great emancipator” lobbied to get this pro-slavery amendment passed through both houses of Congress. Something else the “history” books didn’t bother to tell you about. After all, that would not have fit the image of the Great Emancipator Lincoln that people in government and public schools were trying to peddle to the “great unwashed” (and under-educated) masses, so they just left that little fact out. So the slaves were not freed until the second 13th Amendment was enacted in late 1865, months after Lincoln had gone to his eternal “reward.”


Maybe it behooves people to start asking questions about those public school “history” books we were all brought up with—you know—really embarrassing questions, the kind they don’t ever want asked and that they will try to sluff off as “conspiracy theories.” Somebody needs to do it—so why not now???

Way back in 1988 (ancient history now) I had an article published in The National Educator, which I doubt is even in business anymore, that dealt with the extreme efforts of the NAACP to have Confederate flags removed from the capitol buildings in several Southern states. I mention this to remind folks that attacks on Southern culture and heritage have been going on for much longer than the advent of the Biden/Obama administration.

Needless to say, this sort of Orwellian activity on the part of the NAACP and other anti-South organizations has continued and steadily increased, presently with the aid of the federal government, for over three decades now, to the point where recently it has become a prolonged feeding frenzy for the left when it comes to anything Confederate no matter how small or insignificant it might be.

The NAACP’s checkered history has been a wonderment to behold over the decades. They’ve had problems with some of their people over the years who’ve been in high positions and during the early 1990s they seemed about to sink into oblivion until some little leftwing bird chirped in their ear about how attacking all things Confederate just might revive their sagging membership roles if such propaganda were presented in the right format. They were quick to pick up on this and have since ridden it to death! So I guess it must have put some long green in their coffers. Here was a group, supposedly formed to help black folks, yet it had all white presidents at least until sometime in the 1960s.

An excellent expose of the NAACP could be found in the book Biographical Dictionary of the Left, Volume One by Francis X. Gannon. It was published by Western Islands back in 1969. I’m not sure if you can even find it anymore. If it has been reprinted I’m not aware of it—but it should be.

Since the early 1990s I have read scores of articles dealing with the ongoing leftist agenda of removing Confederate flags, monuments, and other symbols from government schools public buildings, parks and other places. And since 2015, when that idiot Dylan Roof shot those black folks in South Carolina, the effort has really reached a fever pitch. Since the advent of Biden/Obama the federal government has officially joined the attack with continuous references to what traitors our Confederate ancestors were for even thinking of resisting old Honest Abe’s version of the “glorious union.”

It’s almost like the world will end for leftists unless they get to remove every remembrance of the old Confederacy before Trump’s attempt at a second term—something else that seems to give them the Heeby Jeeby’s. I’ve been watching this whole process for longer than I like to admit and, believe me, it’s enough to gag a maggot!

And actually, if the truth be known, the federal government has been involved with the anti-Southern racket since at least the early 1860s. According to an article in Chronicles magazine by author John Chodes several years ago now, it was in the early years of the War that Congress passed the Morrill Act (early 1860s). This act just about amounted to direct federal aid to education. The stated objective for the act was to “fund colleges that teach agriculture and the mechanic arts via money raised through federal land grant sales.” However, according to Mr. Chodes, “The true objective (of the act) was to bring the Northern perspective to the reconquered areas of the South, to teach the rebels’ children respect for national authority—to break their rebellious spirit forever. The three R’s had absolutely nothing to do with this landmark bill.” Knowing that he who pays the piper calls the tune, is anyone really surprised?

Senator J. P. Wickersham said in 1865 that the majority of non-slave-holding whites in the South were “deplorably ignorant” and it was this ignorance that helped rebel leaders to enlist so many of them in Confederate armies. Wickersham felt that as long as they remained “ignorant’ they would remain the pawns of political demagogues.” In other words, unless the Southern “poor white trash” were properly “educated” with the proper Northern perspective they would continue to be swayed by such banal considerations as Christianity, states rights, constitutional government, and a whole host of similar “unenlightened doctrines.” So if only you could give them the “proper Northern education” they would then become the pawns of enlightened Northern demagogues.

Wickersham then went on to state that “A Republican form of government cannot long last without providing a system of free schools.” Read that one again as you choke on it! Anyone gullible enough to swallow such a pile of bovine fertilizer as that deserves the stomach upset he gets from it! The last thing any true Republic needs is “free (government) schools” or “free education for all children in government schools” as that vaunted champion of humanity, Karl Marx, promoted in The Communist Manifesto. I hate to differ with such educational giants as Wickersham and Marx but I don’t think the average Southerner was nearly as ignorant as these men try to paint him.

Senator Morrill, in seeking to justify his authorship of the Morrill Act said: “The role of the national government is to mold the character of the American people.” Sorry Mr. Morrill, but you are dead wrong here! The “role” of the national government, or of government at any level, is defined in Romans, chapter 13. If these politicians in the 1860s had such a statist mindset, do you wonder why we have so many problems today? And some people today still think we didn’t have a problem with socialism in this country until it reared its head when FDR was in office in the 1930s. Wake up folks! You are at least 100 years off in your thinking!

Government schools will continue to pass off abolitionist rhetoric as “history” to the unsuspecting. They dare not inform you of the Christian revivals that took place in the Confederate armies during the war. And they will never inform you of the Christian conviction and dedication of men like Lee, Jackson, Stuart, and many, many others who wore the gray. All you will ever get from today’s “historians” and believe me, I use that term loosely, is tales about how these men were all slaveowners, and therefore, white supremacists. That’s the end of the discussion for them. You don’t need to know anything else and they hope you won’t take the trouble to learn!
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If you don’t grasp that the leftists have been on a mission to trash and destroy Southern heritage and history then you have not kept track of the perambulations of outfits like Antifa or Black Lives Matter. Now, while we know that the leftists are the “up front” guys in the cultural genocide against the South, we also know that there are people in back of them that promote and finance what they do, people that want us and our Southern heritage and culture destroyed every bit as much as the leftists they employ do. Lots of those people reside in Washington and are denizens of the Deep State. Their vision of a “new world order” has no place or room in it for the preservation of Southern history, heritage or culture, particularly as any of that relates to the Christian faith. Shorn of all their sophistry, that’s where their attack on us and our heritage and history is really headed. In the final analysis, that’s what it’s really all about.