Abe Lincoln's Secret War Against The North

by John Chodes

Overview

John Chodes exposes a shocking and criminal campaign against the people of New York, Maryland, Indiana and Missouri during the Civil War, events most of us have never heard of. Abraham Lincoln, an American icon, was feared and hated during his presidency as a brutal dictator who was turning the United States into a permanently militarized nation.

Lincoln was reviled not only by Southerners and by his political rivals (the Democrats), but also to a surprising degree by the rank and file of his own Republican Party.

He won the war, and so he is remembered as “Honest Abe” and the “Great Emancipator.” But through this investigation of three Northern states that opposed Abraham Lincoln’s policies, and even one state that had fervently supported him, the true picture becomes more clear.

Why is this story important for today? Because many of the negatives in 21st-century American society—the centralization of power in Washington, political indifference to the popular will, the continual expansion of the “military–industrial complex,” can all be traced to their starting point: Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.

The Radical wing of Lincoln’s Republican Party was a precursor of the 20th- and 21st-century totalitarian regimes. These Radicals believed in, and fulfilled, their goal of one-party rule. This goal was not shaped by four years of brutalizing war but was inherent in their ideology from the beginning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628941135
Publisher:	Algora Publishing
Publication date:	04/18/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	350 KB

About the Author

John Chodes has had twenty articles and three monographs published related to the War for Southern Independence and Reconstruction, otherwise called the Civil War. One monograph outlines how state sovereignty was sacrificed by the Federalization of the school system; the second reminds us that the United States Constitution was ratified only on the basis of secession being an accepted legal alternative if the Federal government over-stepped its mandated powers. The third monograph, The Union League: Washington’s Klan, describes the Federal government’s agency, the Union League, which equaled or surpassed the Ku Klux Klan in brutality toward Southern freedmen.

His articles, mostly relating to the history of the federalizing of Southern education, culture and property, have appeared in "Chronicles", "The Freeman", "Social Justice Review", "The New York Tribune", "Southern Partisan", and "Southern Events". He is also an accomplished playwright. Mr. Chodes lives and works in New York City.