Monday, March 29, 2010

Lincoln vs. Davis debate

We live in troubled times that try men’s ( and women’s now that they are legally equal) souls. In the years preceding the Civil War ( also called the War between the States) the country divided along the lines of slavery, right or wrong. The divide today between pro and anti- government control and spending is not dissimilar. Jefferson Davis believed (to his dying day) that slavery’s origin was in a Divine Decree - the curse on the “graceless sons of Noah.” Slaves were the white man’s inferior. Their liberty would be a curse. Abraham Lincoln, cautious and ambiguous, at first, eventually spoke out and campaigned against the sin of slavery, its moral wrong. Wrong vs. right centered the Lincoln/ Douglas debates in 1860.

Obama represents the wrong. For example, the idea that a child created out of a “mistake” ( not a wrong) is a “burden” on the woman (especially if she were one of his daughters). Abortion therefore, is a right ( pun intended). Similarly, liberal Democrats like Obama, our present Congress and Democrat politicians believe health care is a right. They believe that governmental control of any aspect of our life they select, is good. The citizen slave to progressive power is inferior to the elitist oligarches who ‘know better.’ We schmucks are like ‘graceless sons (and daughters) of Noah.’

Sarah Palin has pointed out these modern day Southern plantation owners, calling them out as bondholders on our liberties. No wonder the divide between Americans grows wider each day. No wonder the media and the President’s overseers ( often called Czars ) malign us sons ( and daughters) of Lincoln. Whenever - in their inherent hypocrisy - they attempt to invoke the Great Emancipator, (Lincoln) for political purposes, I well up with anger.

What specifically led us into the Civil War? Stephen A. Douglas’ ramming the Kansas/Nebraska Bill through Congress in 1854. Look it up. Not even a decade of discontent and disagreement elapsed until the North and South took up arms. Douglas had “acute myopia, amounting almost to blindness,” a famous author, Bruce Catton, of this period in history, notes. “He ( Douglas) was indifferent to the moral aspects of slavery.” As a result of the outrage in the North to allowing slavery into new territories, the Republican Party came into being. ( The Democrats were solidly behind slavery).

If Obama is Douglas, is Sarah Palin the avatar of Lincoln? Americans against the takeover of our liberties seethe with anger. Changing direction is not optional; it’s a moral imperative. Remember too that the 1856 Dred Scott Decision establishing the Constitutionality of slavery and the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, was wrong ( the Supreme Court being mostly Democrats). Look it up. It went against the beliefs of a great number of citizens. Sound familiar? Eventually the final arbiter was the polls. A Republican Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Change the word Republican to conservative in today’s climate. Ironically, America again stands at a contested crossroad. Who will lead? Where?

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