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A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britains In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend. Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralizedas the Founding Fathers intendedto a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade. To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states rights, and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provacative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening its vise grip on our republic to this very day. You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in schoola side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war. A devastating critique of Americas most famous president. Joseph Sobran, commentator and nationally syndicated columnist Todays federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Thomas J. DiLorenzo gives an account of How this come about in The Real Lincoln. Walter E. Williams, from the foreword A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems facing Americans in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincolns creation. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that and leaves the reader asking, Why didnt we know this before Donald Livingston, professor of philosophy, Emory University Professor DiLorenzo has penetrated to the very heart and core of American history with a laser beam of fact and analysis. Clyde Wilson, professor of history, University of South Carolina, and editor, The John C. Calhoun Papers From the Hardcover edition. Read more...
Abstract: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britains In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend. Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralizedas the Founding Fathers intendedto a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade. To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states rights, and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provacative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening its vise grip on our republic to this very day. You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in schoola side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war. A devastating critique of Americas most famous president. Joseph Sobran, commentator and nationally syndicated columnist Todays federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Thomas J. DiLorenzo gives an account of How this come about in The Real Lincoln. Walter E. Williams, from the foreword A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems facing Americans in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincolns creation. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that and leaves the reader asking, Why didnt we know this before Donald Livingston, professor of philosophy, Emory University Professor DiLorenzo has penetrated to the very heart and core of American history with a laser beam of fact and analysis. Clyde Wilson, professor of history, University of South Carolina, and editor, The John C. Calhoun Papers From the Hardcover edition

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Praise for The Real Lincoln This is a scholarly lucidly written work that is - photo 1
Praise for The Real Lincoln

This is a scholarly, lucidly written work that is bound to generate robust, even heated, controversy. It may very well end up revolutionizing our understanding of one of the great American icons.

R ALPH R AICO , professor of history,
Buffalo State College, and editor of The Roosevelt Myth

To the legions of Americans who regard Abraham Lincoln as aracial saint and a national demigod, Thomas DiLorenzo's The Real Lincoln will come as a rude awakening. Unlike his mythic representations as Honest Abe and the Great Emancipator, the real Lincoln dedicated his political career to the establishment of a corrupt system of high tariffs and corporate subsidies, and he was willing to plunge the nation into a bloody cataclysm in order to achieve his lifelong political aspirations.

R OBERT H IGGS , P H .D.,
author of Competition and Coercion

The Real Lincoln is not for weaklings. But for those who prefer historical truth over ignoble fiction and republican self-government over oppressive empire, read this book. Professor DiLorenzo superbly unmasks tyranny in the personage of Lincoln and the apparatus of centralization he set in motion.

M ARSHALL D E R OSA , professor and
chair of social sciences, Florida Atlantic University

A war of coercion was Lincoln's creation and he had to violently subvert the Constitution to carry it out. His purpose? To establish a centralized state. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that, and leaves the reader asking, Why didn't we know this before?

D ONALD L IVINGSTON , professor of history,
Emory University

Professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo has stepped forward with a blockbuster of a book, The Real Lincoln. Read it and regain perspective.

P AUL C RAIG R OBERTS , nationally syndicated columnist
and author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions

The leading lights of the historical procession fiercely guard a set of axioms [about Lincoln] DiLorenzo refutes them all.

H. A. S COTT T RASK ,
Chronicles magazine

A magnificent contribution to history, vital reading for anyone concerned with the defense of liberty.

D AVID G ORDON ,
The Mises Review

[A] moving, reasoned, provocative if most iconoclastic book on the Lincoln legacy.

WILLIAM H. PETERSON,
Washington Times

CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 - photo 2
CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8 Reconstructing America:
Lincoln's Political Legacy

Chapter 9 The Great Centralizer:
Lincoln's Economic Legacy

Chapter 10

Chapter 11 Afterword: Responses to the Critics
of the First Edition

Acknowledgments

T HIS WORK GREW from a speech I gave on Lincoln as Progenitor of the twentieth-century American state at the Mises Institute's fifteenth-anniversary conference in Atlanta in November 1997. I would like to thank Lew Rockwell, Jeff Tucker, and the staff of the Institute for providing me with a forum for discussing these ideas and for publishing some of my earlier work.

I would also like to thank Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, published by the Independent Institute of Oakland, California, for publishing my essay, The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War between the States, in the July 1998 issue of the Review. The advice of two anonymous peer reviewers was also very helpful. This essay formed the backbone of the present book.

Former Prima Publishing acquisitions editor Steven Martin approached me about writing the book, and I thank him for doing so. I also gratefully acknowledge the financial support for my research provided by the Earhart Foundation and the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College.

My wife, Stacey, provided tremendous support and encouragement, as always, but I still won't list her as a co-author.

FOREWORD

I N 1831, long before the War between the States, South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun said, Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail. The War between the States answered that question and produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day.

Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Thomas J. DiLorenzo gives an account of how this came about in The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War.

As DiLorenzo documentscontrary to conventional wisdom, books about Lincoln, and the lessons taught in schools and collegesthe War between the States was not fought to end slavery. Even if it were, a natural question arises: Why was a costly war fought to end it? African slavery existed in many parts of the Western world, but it did not take warfare to end it. Dozens of countries, including the territorial possessions of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, ended slavery peacefully during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Countries such as Venezuela and Colombia experienced conflict because slave emancipation was simply a ruse for revolutionaries who were seeking state power and were not motivated by emancipation per se.

Abraham Lincoln's direct statements indicated his support for slavery. He defended slave owners right to own their property, saying that when they remind us of their constitutional rights [to own slaves], I acknowledge them, not grudgingly but fully and fairly; and I would give them any legislation for the claiming of their fugitives (in indicating support for the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850).

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was little more than a political gimmick, and he admitted so in a letter to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase: The original proclamation has no legal justification, except as a military measure. Secretary of State William Seward said, We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free. Seward was acknowledging the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to slaves in states in rebellion against the United States and not to slaves in states not in rebellion.

The true costs of the War between the States were not the 620,000 battlefield-related deaths, out of a national population of 30 million (were we to control for population growth, that would be equivalent to roughly 5 million battlefield deaths today). The true costs were a change in the character of our government into one feared by the likes of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Calhounone where states lost most of their sovereignty to the central government. Thomas Jefferson saw as the most important safeguard of the liberties of the people the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.

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