Veritas et Sapientia – The Real Lincoln Led The REAL Republicans, Making The Term RINO A Myth

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: Have you ever heard the term “RINO” as in “he’s another RINO for big government” etc.? Read about the REAL Lincoln and the radical Republicans who schemed the “Civil War as just another land/tax/tariff grab and you’ll understand that “returning the Republican Party to its roots has been accomplished since Reagan. Why? It has become it’s progenitor: taxing, spending, tyrannizing and waging unJust war. – Mike Church] “A great increase in the tariff and the formation of a national banking network was, of course, the cornerstones of this great alteration in the posture of the federal government toward the sponsorship of business. From the beginning of the Republican Party, Lincoln warned his associates not to talk about their views on these subjects. Their alliance, he knew, was a negative thing: a league against the Slave Power and its Northern friends. But in private, he made it clear that the hidden agenda of the Republicans would have its turn, once the stick was in their hand. In this, he promised well. Between 1861 and 1865, the tariff rose from 18.84% to 47.56% and it stayed above 40% in all but two years of the period concluded with the election of Woodrow Wilson. As the Virginia historian Ludwell H. Johnson wrote, it would “facilitate a massive transfer of wealth, satisfying the dreariest predictions of John C. Calhoun.”[9] The new Republican system of banking (for which we should note Lincoln was directly accountable) was part of the same large design of “refounding.” The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, with the earlier Legal Tender Act, flooded the country with $480,000,000 of fiat money that was soon depreciated by about two-thirds in relation to specie. Then, all notes but the greenback dollar were taxed out of existence, excepting only U. S. Treasury bonds that all banks were required to purchase if they were to have a share in the war boom. The support for these special bonds was thus the debt itself—Hamilton’s old standby. Specie disappeared. Moreover, the bank laws controlled the money supply, credit, and the balance of power. New banks and credit for farms, small businesses, or small town operations were discouraged and the Federalist model, after four score and seven years, was finally achieved. 

Lincoln naturally supported heavy taxes plus a scheme of tax graduation. The war was a legitimate explanation for these measures. Lincoln’s participation in huge subsidies or bounties for railroads and in other legislation granting economic favors is not so readily linked to “saving the Union.” All of his life, Lincoln was a friend of the big corporations. He had no moral problem in signing a bill which gifted the Union Pacific Railway with a huge strip of land running across the West and an almost unsecured loan of $16,000 to $48,000 per mile of track. The final result of this bill was the Credit Mobilier scandal. With other laws favoring land speculation, it helped to negate the seemingly noble promise of the Homestead Act of 1862—under which less than 19% of the open lands settled between 1860 and 1900 went to legitimate homesteaders. The Northern policy of importing immigrants with the promise of this land, only to force them into the ranks of General Grant’s meatgrinder or into near slavery in the cities of the East, requires little comment. Nor need we belabor the rotten army contracts given to politically faithful crooks, nor the massive thefts by law performed during the war in the South. More significant is Lincoln’s openly disgraceful policy of allowing special cronies and favorites of his friends to trade in Southern cotton—even with “the enemy” across the line—and his calculated use of the patronage and the pork barrel.[10] Between 1860 and 1880, the Republicans spent almost $10,000,000 breathing life into state and local Republican organizations. Lincoln pointed them down that road. There can be no doubt of his responsibility for the depressing spectacle of greed and peculation concerning which so many loyal Northern men of the day spoke with sorrow, disappointment, and outrage–had they known in detail of Lincoln’s career in the Illinois legislature, they would have been less surprised by the disparity between the lofty platform language of their leader and his domestic performance. – M.E. Bradford, Lincoln Reconsidered

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Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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