Shattering the Icon of Lincoln; his heavy taxes & tariff wars against the South, Civil War was NOT about ending slavery

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If the North was fighting a Crusade of Liberation, why didn’t she wage war on New York City and Boston, the largest home ports for slave-trading ships in the world in 1861? Or on Africa herself and her slave-raiders – such as the Kingdom of Dahomey – the largest exporters of African slaves in the world? Or on New England and her manufacturing profits gleaned from slave-picked cotton? Why? Because slavery was not the issue of the “Irrepressible Conflict,” as William Seward contended. The “Irrepressible Conflict” was between the “opposing and enduring forces” of an agrarian economy and an industrial economy. The respective labor systems of the antagonists were just as irrelevant in this conflict as in any other war of conquest.
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No, the North was not fighting to free the slaves. Lincoln said so himself. He specifically stated that he was fighting to save the Union. What he neglected to add, however, was that he was fighting to save the Union for Northern financial and industrial interests! And what were some of these interests? The industrializing North, with her sectional majority, was rapidly gaining control of the Federal Government and wielding it to accomplish her political ambitions to centralize its power, and use her control of that power to accomplish her industrial ambitions for high protective tariffs, bounties for transcontinental railroads, and the creation of national banks to manage it all, all at the South’s expense, turning the Southern States into her agricultural colonies – of the sort that England had earlier created with her thirteen Colonies. With the election of Lincoln and the triumph of his strictly Northern sectional party, the Cotton States saw it all coming and got out from under the North’s control once and for all through State Secession.

So what was the War all about? Quite simply, it was the North’s war against the South’s secession. Secession is an Imperialist’s worst nightmare. When the thirteen Colonies rebelled against England’s economic exploitation by seceding from the Empire, England sent in the Redcoats. When the Southern States rebelled against Yankee economic exploitation by seceding from the Union, the Yankees sent in the Bluecoats.

With the secession of the Southern States, the North lost her largest source of tariff revenues, her source of cotton for her mills, a large portion of her markets for her manufactured goods, and control of the mouth of the Mississippi. (So the North propagandized, but Confederates were pledging to keep that key river open to steamboats engaged in international trade.) If the South were to be allowed to leave the Union and get out from under the control of the North and her sectional majorities, the North feared its economy might wither on the vine.

So the North provoked the South into firing the first shot, blockaded the Confederate coasts, and marched her armies across the South to the tune of the Puritanical and militantly intolerant “Battle Hymn of the Republic” – burning and pillaging and raping and killing – until she drove the Southern States back into the Union. Then – by the Reconstruction Acts that dis-franchised Southern intelligence and enfranchised Southern ignorance under the control of unscrupulous and predatory Northern carpetbaggers and demagogues propped up by Federal bayonets – the North passed Amendments that effectively gutted the Constitution of its federative nature, and put the Federal Government under her unlimited control. With the stumbling blocks of the South and the Constitution finally out of the way of her ambitions, the North then sent Sherman, Sheridan and Custer out to the Great Plains to tend to the Indians, who were in the way of her transcontinental railroads. But this doesn’t look very good on the pages of a school history book or in a National Park Service film presentation, so the North’s war of conquest must be cloaked in robes of morality and turned into a war of liberation. To the victor belong the spoils, and the “Official History Book” – written by “Court Historians” – is one of the spoils of war.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the South has been made the nation’s foil, the scapegoat, the traitor, the guilty one, fighting not to defend herself from invasion, conquest, and coerced political allegiance, but fighting to defend slavery. And it should come as no surprise that the North has been made the righteous one, the “good guys,” fighting not a war of imperialism and conquest, but fighting a noble war of liberation under the tragic benevolence of “Father Abraham.” But the truth is that when Abraham Lincoln got the war he wanted, he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, secured for himself dictatorial powers, and – with the collaboration of newly elected Republicans – implemented the very usurpation that the Founders had struggled to prevent.

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The Civil War Bankers by Elbert O. Kelsey​

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For North Rothschilds’ August Belmont & Company
For South: Rothschilds’ Erlanger & Company

by Elbert O. Kelsey

THE ECONOMIC FRICTION between the trading and manufacturing interests in the northeastern states and the agricultural interests in the southern and western states, in the first half of the nineteenth century, reached a climax in 1836 when the second “Bank of the United States” was forced out of business in President Andrew Jackson’s second term. The southern cotton – producing – exporting states were providing the foreign exchange which paid for the bulk of imports into the United States. Yet, the federal government persisted in taxing imports so heavily that import duties bore most of the cost of the government. This meant that the southern cotton producers were almost directly paying the whole cost of the central administration.

The well-informed people of the country, both North and South, were acutely aware of the problems, ethical as well as economic, of Negro slavery and were giving careful thought to the best way of ridding the country of its curse. It was not a sectional political issue of any serious consequence until irresponsible (and alien backed) agitators brought it forward as the moral standard needed to arouse emotions to fighting pitch.

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For North Rothschilds' August Belmont & Company For South: Rothschilds' Erlanger & Company by Elbert O. Kelsey THE ECONOMIC FRICTION between the trading and manufacturing interests in the northeastern states and the agricultural interests in the southern and western states, in the first half of...
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Susan Lawrence Davis

Authentic History: Ku Klux Klan, 1865–1877​

Authentic History: Ku Klux Klan, 1865–1877 – Ostara Publications

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By Susan Lawrence Davies. The only officially authorized history of the original Ku Klux Klan, written by the daughter of the founder of that organization in Alabama. Written to counteract the misrepresentations made about the original KKK and its activities, this now-suppressed book contains many astonishing “insider” insights.

Written in a racially-paternalistic style, this work also clearly reveals the mindset which lay behind the slave-owning era: a false belief that the blacks were “content” and “loyal” under white rule—and that only a few Southerners understood and supported the view of Abraham Lincoln: namely, that the black presence posed a long-term demographic threat and that they needed to be repatriated to Africa, rather than stay under white rule in America.


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By Susan Lawrence Davies. The only officially authorized history of the original Ku Klux Klan, written by the daughter of the founder of that organization in Alabama. Written to counteract the misrepresentations made about the original KKK and its activities, this now-suppressed book contains many astonishing “insider” insights, such as:

* The KKK was financed from England by the Jewish former Secretary of State for the Confederacy, Benjamin P. Judah (who fled the South at the end of the Civil War);

* The KKK’s chief chaplain was a Roman Catholic;

* The KKK’s chief Justice was North America’s 33rd Degree Mason leader;

* The hood—for which the KKK became famous—was in fact outlawed by the original organization because so many people were using its disguise to commit crimes in the name of the KKK;

* The original KKK’s primary activity was political in nature, and their officers in various legislative bodies—reaching as high as the U.S. Senate—were focused on restoring white rule to the southern states;

* When official KKK posses were formed, they were under strict orders never to dispense mob justice or engage in whippings, lynchings, or other abuse;

* When rogue elements and non-KKK members started performing atrocities in the KKK’s name, the leadership ordered the organization permanently disbanded, citing such abuse of its name as the primary reason for its closure.

Written in a racially-paternalistic style, this work also clearly reveals the mindset which lay behind the slave-owning era: a false belief that the blacks were “content” and “loyal” under white rule—and that only a few Southerners understood and supported the view of Abraham Lincoln: namely, that the black presence posed a long-term demographic threat and that they needed to be repatriated to Africa, rather than stay under white rule in America.

A sensational historical document, vital for anyone wishing to gain a proper understanding of the Southern antebellum resistance to “Reconstruction.”

This edition has been completely reset, contains all the original images (digitally restored), and includes an index.

Cover illustration: a robed Klansman, drawn especially for the original edition of this book.

Contents

Preface

I: Introductory

II: Tennessee, Pulaski

III: Alabama, Athens

IV: The First Convention

V: Fourth of July Parades

VI: Tennessee anti-Ku Klux Law

VII: President Johnson’s Policy

VIII: The Federal Ku Klux Acts

IX: The Union League of America

X: Conditions From 1870–1877

XI: The District of Columbia

XII: Virginia

XIII: Mississippi

XIV: Georgia

XV: North Carolina

XVI: Texas

XVII: Missouri

XVIII: Arkansas

XIX: Florida

XX: South Carolina

XXI: Louisiana

XXII: The Close of the Ku Klux Klan

The Wallace House

Index

236 pages. Paperback.
 
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By 1869 conditions had become intolerable in the South. Governor Brownlow of the State of Tennessee had armed the negroes, in addition to the white troops already stationed in the South, and directed them to fire on the Ku Klux Klan wherever seen. This Order, No. 38, coupled with the fact that outrages were being committed under the disguise of the Ku Klux Klan in regions far removed from where the Klan existed, forced the Ku Klux Klan to print and publish General Order No. 1. <106> Headquarters Realm No. 1.

(Tennessee.) Dreadful Era, Black Epoch. Dreadful Hour. Whereas, Information of an authentic character has reached these headquarters that the blacks in the counties of Marshall, Maury, Giles and Lawrence (Tenn.), are organized into military companies, with the avowed purpose to make war upon and exterminate the Ku Klux Klan, said blacks are hereby solemnly warned and ordered to desist from further action in such organizations, if they exist. The G. D. (Grand Dragon) regrets the necessity of such an order. But this Ku Klux Klan shall not be outraged and interfered with by lawless negroes and meaner white men, who do not and never have understood our purposes. In the first place this Ku Klux Klan is not an institution of violence, lawlessness and cruelty; it is not lawless; it is not aggressive; it is not military; it is not revolutionary. It is, essentially, originally and inherently a protective organization. It proposes to execute law instead of resisting it; and to protect all good men, whether white or black, from the outrages and atrocities of bad men of both colors, who have been for the past three years a terror to society, and an injury to us all. The blacks seem to be impressed with the belief that this Ku Klux Klan is especially their enemy. We are not the enemy of the blacks, as long as they behave themselves, make no threats upon us, and do <107> not attack or interfere with us; but if they make war upon us they must abide the awful retribution that will follow. This Ku Klux Klan, while in its peaceful movements, and disturbing no one, has been fired into three times. This will not be endured any longer; and if it occurs again, and the parties be discovered, a remorseless vengeance will be wreaked upon them. We reiterate that we are for peace and law and order. No man, white or black, shall be molested for his political sentiments. This Ku Klux Klan is not a political party; it is not a military party; it is a protective organization, and will never use violence except in resisting violence. Outrages have been perpetrated by irresponsible parties in the name of the Ku Klux Klan. Should such parties be apprehended, they will be dealt with in a manner to insure us future exemption from such imposition. These impostors have, in some instances, whipped negroes. This is wrong! Wrong! It is denounced by this Klan as it must be by all good and humane men. The Ku Klux Klan, now as in the past, is prohibited from doing such things. We are striving to protect all good, peaceful, well-disposed and law-abiding men, whether white or black. The G. D. deems this order due to the public, due to the Ku Klux Klan, and due to those who are misguided and misinformed. We therefore, request that all newspapers who are friendly to law, and peace, and the public welfare, will publish the same. <108> By order of the G. D., Realm No. 1. By the Grand Scribe.

The Scribe was Capt. John B. Kennedy, and he gave me this Order for this history. The Ku Klux Klan regretted the necessity for having to print or publish this General Order No. 1, because the "Interdiction" of the Ku Klux Klan prohibited any written or printed matter other than notices of their parades. Following is the original Interdiction, given me a few years before his death, by Captain John B. Kennedy, one of the original Ku Klux Klan: "The origin, mystery and Ritual of the Ku Klux Klan shall never be written, but the same shall be communicated orally and memorized by each member."
 
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