This is as good a place as any for this.
Search for or choose this link: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwtxsa;view=1up;seq=5 to “JUDGE REDFIELD’S LETTER TO SENATOR FOOT”, published by Hurd & Houghton, New York and E.P. Dutton and Company, Boston – 1865. The letter was written by Judge Issac Redfield from Boston, September 30, 1865 to Sen. Solomon Foot of Vermont. Within that document, which addresses “THE POINTS SETTLED BY THE WAR; THE STATUS OF THE STATES ATTEMPTING SECESSION. – WHAT BENEFITS HAVE WE DERIVED FROM THE WAR; THE TRUE POLICY OF RESTORING THE GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, you will find the following enumerated statements taken from pages seven and eight of that document. The letter is worth reading in its entirety for the opinions expressed, but the salient point is expressed in the next to the last sentence in the second paragraph reproduced below. You will also find a partial quote of this letter in the often acclaimed The Rise of The Republic of The United States by Richard Frothingham, Tenth Edition, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company 1910, pages three and four. See the footnotes page four.
‘I. The first great question, then, is, What has been the result of the war? What has it settled? How does it leave the States?
1. What questions has the war settled? War may be fairly considered as an action pending in the only tribunal having full jurisdiction of questions between nations, - the tribunal of force – ultima ratio regnum. The results of the war then may be, not inaptly, considered under the figure of a judgment, in an action in a court of justice, for such in fact is war more than anything else.
2. The most important of these issues is that in regard to the paramount sovereignty of the nation, and the right to vindicate that sovereignty by force of arms against all aggressions, as well from within and without. We think, then, that the National Government may fairly claim, against those engaged in the rebellion, that the result has established forever their right to the paramount sovereignty, and to vindicate the same by force. And it must follow as a result of this, that the war has conclusively determined that secession is rebellion and treason, and that the National Government may put it down by force of arms, and punish the offenders in any and all legal modes. It will be seen that this is making the national sovereignty not only supreme, but also the judge of the nature and extent of its own powers. This was the great and main question involved in the war, and which must be regarded as forever put at rest by the result of the war, or the judgment in the action.’
Is it any wonder why we have experienced and continue to experience the relegation of our National Constitution to the status of a “living document”, alterable through the efforts of corrupt men with hidden agendas, behind the scenes, under a cloak of political darkness, in place of constitutionally enacted laws following open debate, supported in that constitutionality through judicial review and an understanding and devotion to the black letter of the Law? The words of Judge Issac Redfield are heeded and acted upon by our representatives, not only at the federal level of government, but at every level of government, ignoring the enlightened reasoning and words of our founders. It is the desire of all tyrants to affect government control over the populace and Judge Redfield’s remark has since become governmental policy on both a local and national scale. Let there be no further confusion regarding the reason for the usurpation of powers by the federal government.
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When I see pictures of him dressed like this it makes me smile. I think of Mussolini, Hitler, Hussein, Marcos, et al. They all ended up dead before their time.