The mind of Abraham Lincoln

[Cypress]

The great legend of Lincoln is that he was the man of the people. But his legendary folksiness overlay a shield Lincoln drew over his inner life and ideas, a shield he rarely, if ever, let down in front of others. The impression many people formed of Lincoln was of an introverted, slightly aloof lawyer who was embarrassed by his
lowlife relatives.

He was a tremendous reader and saw no reason why he should not master every subject, from philosophy to political economy, the same way.

His preoccupation with honesty was a substitute for
religion for Lincoln. He believed in the existence of God, but not The God of Christianity or any other formal religion, though there was never any question in Lincoln’s mind that this God was Immensely powerful, so powerful that individual human wills really amounted to nothing.

Lincoln’s religion resembled the deism of Franklin or Jefferson.
1. He tended toward scientific materialism.
2. The human will was completely determined in all its choices.
3. This belief allowed him to pardon or excuse people.
4. Yet Lincoln was not passive.
5. Free labor allowed all Americans to make of themselves
whatever they were able.

Lincoln’s anger at slavery grew from its denial of opportunity. Lincoln had only incidentally noticed slavery before 1854.
1. Slavery seemed to pose little threat in Illinois.
2. This view changed with the renewed attempt of slavery to plant itself in the western territories.




Source credit:. Professor Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College

 

[Cypress]

Lincoln and slavery

Lincoln always detested slavery but never took any serious public stance on the slavery issue before the 1850s. It was inconceivable to Lincoln that slave labor could ever effectively compete with the labor of free men, and he expected that it would naturally die out on its own.

But far from fading away, American slavery had been undergoing a tremendous revolution in profitability, based largely on slavery’s chief commodity, cotton, in the Southern states of the Union. Slavery sought expansion first in 1819, and the outrage that resulted was quieted only by the Missouri Compromise. Conflict arose again over the admission of Texas in 1845 and the Mexican Cession in 1848, which were quieted by the Compromise of 1850.

But in 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas triggered the most lethal round of controversy by junking the Missouri Compromise through the Kansas-Nebraska Act and opening the western territories to slave expansion through the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Kansas-Nebraska impelled Lincoln to reenter Politics in opposition to slave extension into the territories.



Source credit:. Professor Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College

 

[Cypress]

As early as 1837 when he was a young state legislator, Lincoln introduced a resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives condemning slavery as both immoral and bad public policy.

What ultimately drove Lincoln to seek national office was the efforts of the Slave Powers to expand slavery into the western territories and western states.

Rather than slavery just fading away as some of the founding fathers hoped, Lincoln saw the Slave Powers attempting to use the levers of national government to expand and entrench slavery.

 

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As early as 1837 when he was a young state legislator, Lincoln introduced a resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives condemning slavery as both immoral and bad public policy.

What ultimately drove Lincoln to seek national office was the efforts of the Slave Powers to expand slavery into the western territories and western states.

Rather than slavery just fading away as some of the founding fathers hoped, Lincoln saw the Slave Powers attempting to use the levers of national government to expand and entrench slavery.

Who will stop Black Rock and it's quest for global slavery?

"You will own nothing and you will be happy"

 

[Cypress]

Who will stop Black Rock and it's quest for global slavery?

Chattel slavery is not remotely comparable to investment banking.


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The effectiveness of Lincoln's crusade against slavery was he tied the immorality of slavery to natural rights, not to civil rights.

The entire Gettysburg address is an invocation of the natural rights enumerated in the declaration of independence. Constitutional civil rights do not enter the fray.

 

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Chattel slavery is not remotely comparable to investment banking.


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The effectiveness of Lincoln's crusade against slavery was he tied the immorality of slavery to natural rights, not to civil rights.

The entire Gettysburg address is an invocation of the natural rights enumerated in the declaration of independence. Constitutional civil rights do not enter the fray.

investment banking is worse. you're right.

what is "you will own nothing and you will be happy" as predicted by klaus schwab?

 

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IF blackrock wasnt a force for evil they would divest from slave nations like china.

 

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boycott, divest, sanction..the globalist fascists.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

“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 now nor have ever been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and 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 from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a 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.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1858 debates with Senator Stephen Douglas

 

[Cypress]

“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 now nor have ever been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and 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 from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a 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.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1858 debates with Senator Stephen Douglas

The Lincoln of the 1850s, like 99.9 percent of white men of his era, all thought blacks were inferior to whites.

That has nothing to do with what he thought about slavery. He personally thought slavery was immoral, and the reason he even ran for president was his perception that the slave powers wanted to spread slavery to all the territories and possibly ultimately to the free states.