Inauguration 2009
January 20, 2009 > No Comments
Our family has plans to watch the inauguration online tomorrow. It will be our history lesson. Along with the viewing of this historic inauguration I will also be teaching our children the truth about another important man in history, President Abraham Lincoln. It seems his name is synonmous with the President Elect these days. The facts I will be teaching are not found in textbooks (Christian or secular), nor are they talked about in the news media.
Fact #1: The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln was not for equality of the races. He made this statement before a crowd of 15,000 September 1858 -
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
(Created Equal?: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 235.)
Fact #2: Lincoln was not for the abolishment of slavery but a restriction of slavery. He never intended to stop slavery where it existed but to prevent it from spreading West. In his inaugural speech he made the following statement –
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
Fact #3: Lincoln only changed his position on slavery after it became politically expedient for him to do so. Lincoln made these comments to a group of ministers
“Understand, I raise no objections against it [slavery] on legal or constitutional grounds … I view the matter [emancipation] as a practical war measure, to be decided upon according to the advantages or disadvantages it may offer to the suppression of the rebellion.”
After the editor of the N.Y. Tribune called upon the President to free all slaves, Lincoln wrote:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union …”
Fact #4: Lincoln highly favored colonization. On December 1, 1862 he addressed congress,
I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization.
In this view, I recommend the adoption of the following resolution and articles amendatory to the Constitution of the United States … “Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their consent, at any place or places without the United States.”
Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization as was contemplated in recent acts of Congress … Several of the Spanish American republics have protested against the sending of such colonies [settlers] to their respective territories … Liberia and Haiti are, as yet, the only countries to which colonists of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens …
Their old masters will gladly give them wages at least until new laborers can be procured; and the freedmen, in turn, will gladly give their labor for the wages, till new homes can be found for them, in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race.
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves …
I guess I should stop here, but hopefully this will stir you to do some research on your own, rather than believing all you hear or read in the liberal news media.
Tomorrow the President will be sworn in using the same Bible as Abraham Lincoln. How ironic, huh?
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January 20th, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
We watched, but that’s about all I can say.
January 27th, 2009 @ 12:40 am
It was about what I expected…more Hollywood than anything. It still strikes me as ironic how you can pray at events like this (as several people did on stage) but you can’t pray in school. Well, the next four years should be interesting to say the least.
Interesting notes about Lincoln…there’s always more than meets the eye, aye?