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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Category: History
Details: Words: 1389 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lincoln
The Real Lincoln
Conventional historians justify Lincoln's war against the South because it abolished slavery. But DiLorenzo writes, Lincoln opposed abolitionists and favored shipping blacks back to Africa, and he made clear he was fighting the Civil War "to save the Union."
The book tells us that there was nothing inevitable, necessary, or worthwhile about the Civil War, in which 620,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands more were maimed, much of the Southern economy was …showed first 75 words of 1389 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1389 total…to run amok over states’ rights, so much so that the protections of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments mean little or nothing today.
Not only did the war lay the foundation for eventual nullification or weakening of basic constitutional protections against central government abuses, but it also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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