Posted on 03/30/2015 6:01:34 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
It is painfully obvious what the statist, anti-Christian, anti-freedom leftists have decided is their ruthless intent
Abraham Lincoln, while campaigning for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, made a now-famous speech on June 16, 1858 in which, citing the irreconcilable North-South division of America on the eve of the civil war, said, ” a nation divided against itself cannot stand “; The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the prior year 1857, is regarded by many historians to be the tipping point to the Civil War, because the ruling dictated that a slave was the property of the owner, even if that slave stepped onto free soil. Anti-slavery abolitionists were outraged that a slave on free territory could now be forcibly removed by the law of the land, back to his or her owner in a slave state.
Therefore, Lincoln foresaw that the question could no longer be sidestepped by ” popular sovereignty”, wherein each individual state’s voting citizens would decide whether to allow or to prohibit slavery within its borders. In this speech, Lincoln continued further, to predict, that America would not remain ” divided against itself “; that it ” could not stand “.........” it (America) will either become all one thing, or all the other “. He was essentially predicting two specifics: (1) America as a nation would either allow slavery in all of the states nationwide, or (2) America would abolish slavery nationwide. Had the war gone the other way, America would be two separate nations.
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After CW-II, might it not be better to Gen Sherman the lib states?
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I was struck today more conclusively than ever with the certain knowledge that we as a nation are morally bankrupt to such a degree that we can not stand. We are as deeply divided as we were when slavery was the issue. Today it is abortion, homosexuality and statism.
We will either be at war with each other over this or we will be destroyed by collapse. Our president is hell bent on bringing about Armageddon. It will happen sooner rather than later.
Abandoning Israel will probably be the final straw. I am certain in my heart that he sees this as the act that will bring us to our knees and allow him to establish martial law in the land. I pray for the salvation of a remnant.
The DS decision didn't initiate this. In fact, return of slaves to their masters was part of the Constitution.
The DS decision upset people in the North because it made it impossible to prevent the spread of slavery. And because many believed that it would be used as a precedent to make it impossible for free states to prevent slavery in their own bounds.
A “celebration” of diversity and multiculturalism in the American population was introduced in the 1960s and 70s as a deliberate divisive revolutionary tool wielded by Marxists like Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and other radicals. It became dogma taught by Marxists in our universities, then spread by our leftist controlled news media and leftist controlled Hollywood. The intent was, and is, to split American culture along race and class lines and set off a “proletarian” revolution to destroy capitalism. The Left has now managed to elect a half-Black radical as President and their revolution is proceeding along very predictable lines, with him using every opportunity to stir up more division and discontent. A reading of the Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA at this link should make clear their goals and methods: http://revcom.us/Constitution/constitution.html
This country is hopelessly divided. In time, a breakup similar to that of Czechoslovakia will be necessary for survival.
If the black-robed tyrants impose homo-marriage onto the country, then the country be damned. I’ll be more than ready to see America split in two.
You are not alone.
Disgusting isn’t it. And quite the wordy document.
Well, no he didn't.
He said, quoting the Bible, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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When all that holds a nation together is a set of common ideas, and those ideas become no longer common, what then?
When all that holds a nation together is a set of common ideas, and those ideas become no longer common, what then?
Divide and conquer.
Does everybody here realize or even know that Slavery was NEVER AN ISSUE during or before the Civil War until a couple years into it, as an effort to get more people to join the fight on both sides.?
And The Emancipation Proclamation was also used to keep Britain from siding with the South.
Sometimes I get so fed up with revisionist history, I want to puke or beat the person spouting known lies. To see where Lincoln stood on Slavery, read the transcripts of the Stephen Douglas Debates!
Slavery might not have been the only issue precipitating the Civil War, but it was most definitely an issue. Just because Lincoln stated that slavery was not his priority, doesn’t mean the rest of the country felt that way.
Me, too.
And Lincoln wanted to send the blacks back to Africa.
Liberia was founded after his death but he would have approved.
It was not an issue, read the Douglas Debates, read for yourself. Don’t force me to go look this up again and post it, to be honest, I am tired of attempting to get people to have the courage to believe the TRUTH!!
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