The Yankee colony of Aiken, South Carolina has an upcoming art exhibit this winter to honour the man whose armies killed a quarter million Southerners, attempted to burn down Aiken and ultimately deprived Southerners of what Thomas Jefferson called the ‘inalienable right’ of self-determination. The exhibition is going to be held at the University...
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It’s difficult to imagine a more horrifying fate for a human-being than coming face-to-face with a Xenomorph, the deadly creature from Ridley Scott’s film Alien. Perhaps the only equally horrifying fate one could imagine would be to encounter the wrath of Abraham Lincoln and his hordes of Union troops, descending upon your town to...
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When the Southern States seceded in 1860-61 the US Federal Government refused to recognise the right of their peoples to self-determination (even though the US itself had been born out of a secession from a United Kingdom) despite the fact that the States seceded through the same legal process by which they had joined...
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In a recent interview with University of Colorado Professor Ryan McMaken, Lew Rockwell spoke about the progress made in the pro-liberty movement over the last few decades. Most interesting to SNN readers, at one point Mr Rockwell mentioned the enormous headway made in spreading the truth about Abraham Lincoln who is held up as practically...
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Francis W Springer writes on pages 215-216 in his 1990 book War For What? about the unpopularity of the man whose war killed over half a million Americans and how this man came to be a god-like figure after his assassination: It is cause for wonder among some that Lincoln, although enjoying only a slow level...
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In his important work Yankee Babylon, linguist and historian MacDonald King Aston not only traces the development of the Yankees as an ethnic and cultural group, he also does much to destroy the mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln. According to the myth, war was thrust upon Lincoln; he did not choose it. In reality, Lincoln...
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Dr Thomas DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked, writes for LRC: Consider the Southern, Jeffersonian, “Neo-Confederate,” States’ Rights view as expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” From this perspective Jefferson defended the right of secession in his...
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Dr Thomas DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked, writes for LRC: Southerners get it one more time, good and hard, as Louisiana Republicans give Sick Rantorum the victory in their recent primary election. Rantorum is the Lincolnite Republican candidate who is a shill for the plutocrats of the military/industrial/congressional complex and gives them cover behind...
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A Republican presidential candidate described by Gene Healy, senior editor at the Cato Institute, as ‘libertarianism’s sweater-vested arch-nemesis’ is fittingly to appear at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania today and praise the US president who caused the greatest loss of life and liberty in American history. An Associated Press article in the Washington Post has the story of...
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Dr Murray Rothbard, known as ‘Mr Libertarian’ for his passionate and unrelenting defence of liberty, was a strong supporter of the right of secession. He was also a great historian (his multi-volume Conceived in Liberty set on Colonial American history is highly recommended). Rothbard argued that the only two just wars in US history...
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Dr Thomas DiLorenzo has done it again! I’m sure smoke is coming out of Morris Dees’ nose. Tim Wise is surely losing his mind. In his latest post on Lew Rockwell’s blog, Dr DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked, uses the provocative title ‘Lysander Spooner, Neo-Confederate.’ Of course, ‘Neo-Confederate‘ is the...
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In 1863 Union leader Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech full of historical errors and outright untruths. In the interest of historical accuracy, the speech has been corrected below. Where possible, the original language has been maintained. Four score and seven years ago our fathers declared independence from the United Kingdom and then went...
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