The Cause of the Civil War - Last Word

[Galileo Galilei]

The Cause of the Civil War - Last Word

Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion
by James Buchanan (1866)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oi...resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

James Buchanan was one of our greatest presidents. He preceded one of our worst presidents; Abe Lincoln.

Here is the analysis of James Buchanan. Read it and weep. He tells it like it is. And he WAS THERE.

 

[JeNNiF00F00]

always trying to stir the pot.

 

[catdd]

Grits.

 

[Erazmus]

Somehow, I don't think this will be the last word.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

always trying to stir the pot.

I should have added that James Buchanan, unlike Lincoln, had a long and disinguished career and knows what he was talking about.

He was first elected to the state legislature of Pennsylvania during the War of 1812.

From then, until he was elected president he was:

Secretaty of State

U.S. Senator (2 terms)

Minister to Russia

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's (Great Britian)

Elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives (5 times)

Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary

Offered a seat on the U.S Supreme Court

President of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

Buchanan also had a famous meeting with Andrew Jackson regarding the election of 1824.

 

[raiha]

I think it is a pot that requires stirring until the gruel fed to the common man has had truth added to it, a rare and precious delicacy not found in many supermarkets.
I must get that book. Sadly it won't state that at the declaration of war, Abraham Lincoln had 450 times the safe level of mercury in his system. (for either syphilis or depression, can't be sure...I prefer the former possibility)
Fascinating that one of the features of mercury poisoning is 'Impulse to Kill."

 

[Galileo Galilei]

I think it is a pot that requires stirring until the gruel fed to the common man has had truth added to it, a rare and precious delicacy not found in many supermarkets.
I must get that book. Sadly it won't state that at the declaration of war, Abraham Lincoln had 450 times the safe level of mercury in his system. (for either syphilis or depression, can't be sure...I prefer the former possibility)
Fascinating that one of the features of mercury poisoning is 'Impulse to Kill."

they sell it on Amazon, if you don't want to read it online. It is the best and most impartial expalantation of what was going on that I have ever seen. No wonder it is avoided by the extremists and denounced by the fanatics.

 

[surf]

can you sum it up for those of us that don't have the time to read it?

 

[pacelli]

A bullet caused the civil war.

 

[Dunedain]

I'll take the bait to see what happens.

Slavery! It was over Slavery!!!!

 

[Aratus]

sec' of war stanton to lincoln's close & chosen few is 1861's dissembling hero and 1868's big open historic question mark?

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

As the power of the Truth set me free, so, there is no shameful defeat in the Truth

I should have added that James Buchanan, unlike Lincoln, had a long and disinguished career and knows what he was talking about.

He was first elected to the state legislature of Pennsylvania during the War of 1812.

From then, until he was elected president he was:

Secretaty of State

U.S. Senator (2 terms)

Minister to Russia

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's (Great Britian)

Elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives (5 times)

Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary

Offered a seat on the U.S Supreme Court

President of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

Buchanan also had a famous meeting with Andrew Jackson regarding the election of 1824.

As a Texan, I don't look north to be a proud American, but I look to the Truth declared by our Founding Fathers. By way of their fellowship together, this ultimate Truth from the Lord's New Covenant was translated by them to us and declared a natural law. This natural law established for the people a Civil Purpose with it superceding all legal precedence, every past tradition, and every future event yet to occur.
The Lord's blood knows no boundary and He shed it to dry every tear, to heal the horrible sting from every bullet, arrow, and sword, and to cleanse all tyranny from the battlefield. Aman.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

From uneducated, to educated, to diseducated.

I think it is a pot that requires stirring until the gruel fed to the common man has had truth added to it, a rare and precious delicacy not found in many supermarkets.
I must get that book. Sadly it won't state that at the declaration of war, Abraham Lincoln had 450 times the safe level of mercury in his system. (for either syphilis or depression, can't be sure...I prefer the former possibility)
Fascinating that one of the features of mercury poisoning is 'Impulse to Kill."

It is better to be uneducated than to be diseducated, for when we are the latter even the baboons in the zoo shreik loudly, run about, expose their teeth, and then sit to laugh long and hard at us.

Diseducation: The act of being educated away from a central Truth.

 

[Old Ducker]

The Cause of the Civil War - Last Word

Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion
by James Buchanan (1866)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oi...resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

James Buchanan was one of our greatest presidents. He preceded one of our worst presidents; Abe Lincoln.

Here is the analysis of James Buchanan. Read it and weep. He tells it like it is. And he WAS THERE.

Can you summarize the key points for those of us who dont have a few hours to kill reading a book?

 

[jmdrake]

Can you summarize the key points for those of us who dont have a few hours to kill reading a book?

Just read the table of contents. (And I'm not taking a position one way or another. I'm weary of these threads.)

CHAPTER I.

The rise and progress of Anti-Slavery agitation—The Higher Law—Anti-Sla-

very Societies—Their formation and proceedings—Their effect destructive

of State Emancipation—The case in Virginia—Employment of the Post Office

to circulate incendiary publications and pictures among the slaves—Message

of General Jackson to prohibit this by law—His recommendation defeated—

The Pulpit, the Press, and other agencies—Abolition Petitions—The rise of

an extreme Southern Pro-Slavery party—The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, and

the case of Frigg «». Pennsylvania, and its pernicious effects—The Sonth

threaten Secession—The course of Mr. Buchanan as Senator—The Wilmot

Proviso and its consequences—The Union in serious danger at the meeting

of Congress in December, 1849, .......

CHAPTER IL

Meeting of Congress in December, 1349—The five Acts constituting the Com-

promise of September, 1850—Effect of the Compromise in allaying excitement

—Whig and Democratic Platforms indorse it—President Pierce'a happy ref-

erence to it in his Message of December, 1358—The repeal of the Missouri

Compromise reopens the slavery agitation—Its passage in March, 1820, and

character—Its recognition by Congress in 1845, on the Annexation of Texas—

The history of its repeal—This repeal giv.es rise to the Kansas troubles—

Their nature and history—The Lecompton Constitution and proceedings of

Congress upon it—The Republican party greatly strengthened—Decision of

the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case—Repudiated by the Republican

party and by the Douglas Democracy—Sustained by the old Democracy—The

Kansas and Nebraska Act—The policy and practice of Congress toward the

Territories—Abuse of President Buchanan for not adhering to the Cincinnati

Platform without foundation, . . . . . . .21
CHAPTER m.

Senator Seward — The " Irrepressible Conflict " — Helper's "Impending Crisis" —

The John Brown Raid — The nature of Fanaticism — The Democratic National

Convention at Charleston — Its proceedings and adjournment to Baltimore —

Reassembling at Baltimore and proceedings there — Its breaking up and di-

vision into the Douglas and the Breckinridge Conventions — Proceedings of

each — Review of the whole and the effect on the South, . . .57

CHAPTER IV.

The heresy of Secession — Originated in New England — Maintained by Josiah

Quincy and the Hartford Convention, by Mr. Rawle and Mr. John Quincy

Adams, bnt opposed by the South— Southern Secession dates from South Car-

olina Nullification — Its character and history — The Compromise Tariff of 1833

— The Nullifiers agitate for Secession — Mr. Calhoun — Mr. Cobb against it —

Warnings of the Democratic party — They are treated with contempt — Seces-

sion encouraged by the Republicans — The Cotton States led to believe they

would be allowed to depart in peace — President Buchanan warned them

against this delusion, . . . . . • . .86

CHAPTER V.

Qeneral Scott's "Views," and the encouragement they afforded to the cotton

States to secede — Their publication by him in the "National Intelligencer" —

His recommendation in favor of four distinct Confederacies —His recommen-

dation to reinforce nine of the Southern forts, and the inadequacy of the

troops — The reason of this inadequacy — The whole army required on the fron-

tiers — The refusal of Congress to increase it — Our fortifications necessarily

left without sufficient garrisons for want of troops — The President's duty to

refrain from any hostile act against the cotton States, and smooth the way to

a compromise — The rights of those States in no danger from Mr. Lincoln's

election — Their true policy was to cling to the Union, . . . .99

CHAPTER VI.

Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency—Its danger to the Union—Warnings of

the President and his trying position—His policy in the emergency, and the

reasons for it—His supreme object the preservation of the Union—Meeting of

Congress, and the hostility of the two parties toward each other—The wrongs

of the South—How rash and causeless would be rebellion in the cotton States

—The right of secession discussed and denied in the Message—The President's

position defined—Question of the power to coerce a State—Distinction be-

tween the power to wage war against a State, and the power to execute the

laws against individuals—Views of Senator (now President) Johnson, of Ten-

nessee—President Buchanan's solemn appeal in favor of the Union—His es-

trangement from the secession leaders—Cessation of all friendly intercourse

between him and them, . . ..... 108

 

[Galileo Galilei]

can you sum it up for those of us that don't have the time to read it?

It's too complicated to sum up in 25 words. You'll have to read it.