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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
More facts on Lincoln: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/w-williams1.html Dude also jailed a lot of people that criticized him in the press. He also refused to execute a ruling by the Supreme Court (Ex parte Merryman). He suspended one of the oldest rights people have against the government--Habeas Corpus.
Plus the Emancipation Proclamation was a gimmick--freeing slaves on territory he didn't control. The slaves were freed via Constitutional amendment. |
While Lincoln was no saint, since he was just a man, Libertarian leaning economists like Thomas J. DiLorenzo (author of
The Real Lincoln that the editorial you linked to is about) have a serious gripe against with him because they believe he spawned the enormous central government that we have today. Much of his version of history is revisionist, or at best, unbalanced. Let's not forget that Lincoln only won 40% of the popular vote, in part because it was virtually impossible to vote for him in much of the Deep South, where his name was often not even on the ballot. The Constitution had been raped before Lincoln and after Lincoln, and the seeds for a powerful central government were planted at the very founding of the nation.