America's Caesar

[TheSecretSix]

Beginning with the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln, this book explains the so-called emergency powers of the President of the United States. The author draws heavily from a wealth of rare political literature as well as long-forgotten government documents to paint an unsettling picture of American history.

http://confederatereprint.com/product_info.php?products_id=272

 

[cash]

Beginning with the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln, this book explains the so-called emergency powers of the President of the United States. The author draws heavily from a wealth of rare political literature as well as long-forgotten government documents to paint an unsettling picture of American history.

http://confederatereprint.com/product_info.php?products_id=272

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Ah, another pack of lies.

 

[Elennsar]

I wonder what that "wealth of rare political literature" and "long forgotten government documents' are.

This kind of characterization - for any leader - should always make a skeptic want something more precise than "previously unused".

 

[TheSecretSix]

George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, the original daft of the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln's July 4, 1861 Address to Congress in Special Secession is considered by you, Cash, as a pack of lies?

 

[IcarusPhoenix]

Modern politics... again. An ahistorical book written by a reactionary whack job who opposes the mere existence of large swaths of the Constitution and longs to roll back the majority of the twentieth century, who has a history of blatant lies, and who lacks any credentials as an historian of any kind does not count as Civil War history just because it makes several wild claims about the era and is sold - among other places - on a Lost Cause website pushing an openly modern agenda. You'll note the OP left out the part of the book's synopsis from the above site that makes it clear that it's about modern issues, suggesting that he knew the work was inappropriate for this site.

I vote we close the thread, and that someone has a long monosyllabic conversation with the OP about extremist modern political agendas posing as history... and how incredibly easy it is to tell the difference.

 

[TheSecretSix]

Modern politics... again. An ahistorical book written by a reactionary whack job who opposes the mere existence of large swaths of the Constitution and longs to roll back the majority of the twentieth century, who has a history of blatant lies, and who lacks any credentials as an historian of any kind does not count as Civil War history just because it makes several wild claims about the era and is sold - among other places - on a Lost Cause website pushing an openly modern agenda. You'll note the OP left out the part of the book's synopsis from the above site that makes it clear that it's about modern issues, suggesting that he knew the work was inappropriate for this site.

I vote we close the thread, and that someone has a long monosyllabic conversation with the OP about extremist modern political agendas posing as history... and how incredibly easy it is to tell the difference.

Okay, now back to the Slavery Channel...

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

You guys know Lincoln's still dead, right?

 

[unionblue]

Okay, now back to the Slavery Channel...

No, back to actual history, if you dare.

 

[Pat Young]

I looked at the website linked to. At the bottom of the page for the book Secret wants us to buy it has a box labelled "Customers who bought this product also purchased." Here are two of the liberty loving books that they bought along with the sites' descriptions of their content:

The Philosophy and Practice of Slavery in the United States
$15.00

by William A. Smith
originally published in 1856
paperback; 328 pages

This book discusses the subject of domestic slavery in the United States from a uniquely philosophical standpoint. The author, a professor of Moral Philosophy, criticizes the egalitarian proposition that all men are born equal, showing that they instead differ greatly in moral and intellectual capacity and that the restraining nature of the government under which they live will increase or diminish in proportion to their ability to restrain their own passions.

A Scriptural Examination of Slavery
$11.00

by Howell Cobb
originally published in 1856
paperback; 141 pages

The author of this book presents two propositions in the investigation of the institution of slavery as it existed in the United States: 1. African slavery is a punishment inflicted by God upon enslaved peoples or nations for their wickedness; and, 2. Slavery in this country was the Providentially-arranged means whereby Africa is to be lifted from her deep degradation to a state of civil and religious liberty.

 

[Pat Young]

Here is how the same publisher describes its book on the KKK:

The Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan
$19.00

by Stanley F. Horn
originally published in 1935
paperback; 450 pages
This volume is a fascinating chronicle of the formation and growth of the infamous KKK following the War Between the States. Conceived in the minds of six former Confederate soldiers as "a hilarious social club" with no other purpose than their own amusement, the Klan quickly evolved into an institution of "Chivalry, Humanity, Mercy, and Patriotism" and spread throughout the Southern States to counter the aggression against their people by unscrupulous Carpetbaggers and their vicious Union League cohorts. According to its published prescription, the Klan existed "to protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless, from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal," and to "aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in conformity to the laws of the land." Such illustrious figures as Generals John Brown Gordon of Georgia and Nathan Bedford Forrest of Tennessee were leaders in the Invisible Empire, the latter calling for its disbandment in 1871 when its purpose had been fulfilled.

 

[wilber6150]

So what kind of Caeser, allows a Presidental election in the middle of a civil war, and at the height of his power? Author might want to rethink his definitions....

 

[Pat Young]

While you might think that there is nothing wrong with republishing old books containing sharply racist content, the approving tone of the descriptions tells you that these are not historical curiosities for the publisher. Here is another book with description:

A Defense of Virginia and the South (audio)
$36.00 $32.00

by Robert Lewis Dabney
originally published in 1867
nine compact discs; approximately 600 minutes
History revisionists have long insisted that the true cause of the War Between the States was the allegedly immoral system of Southern slavery. To the contrary, Dr. Dabney shows from Scripture that slavery, as practiced in the South, was not inherently wicked, as claimed by the Northern Abolitionists, but was recognized and regulated by God's Word, and that, while the wealth of New England was initially built almost exclusively from the "iniquitous traffick" of the African slave trade, the South, and Virginia in particular, was merely the unwilling recipients of the hapless Negroes who were landed on her shores in violation of first Colonial, then State law. This audio book will challenge everything you thought you knew about antebellum slavery.

 

[Pat Young]

Here is one of the more generous treatments of black people in the publisher's description of a book on race relations:

The Negro: The Southerner's Problem
$15.00

by Thomas Nelson Page
originally published in 1904
paperback; 316 pages
In this treatise on the race relations between Whites and Blacks in the South both before and after the War Between the States, the author demonstrates the undeniable harm that came to both races as a result of the interference of the Northern Abolitionists in Southern affairs and the premature emancipation of four million slaves and their elevation to a political status for which they were completely unprepared. Page also includes an historical outline of the barbaric history of Negro Africa and the dismal failure of the Black republics of Liberia and Haiti, and predicts dire results for America should this country ever become Africanized. And yet, at the same time, he calls for a humane treatment of the American Negro on the part of the dominant White race, and a renewed effort on the part of the Southern people in particular to seek his betterment, pointing out that the Black man was not directly responsible for the woes brought upon the South during the War Between the States and Reconstruction.

 

[Pat Young]

In the publisher's description of a book on the Dred Scott decision, the publisher writes:

In the famous 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney discussed whether descendants of slaves, when they shall be emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word is used in the Constitution of the United States. In over one hundred pages of sound constitutional and historical arguments, Taney showed that such people were never intended by the framers of the Constitution to enjoy the same political status as the White Citizen of a State.

 

[KeyserSoze]

The author draws heavily from a wealth of rare political literature as well as long-forgotten government documents

Not to mention more than a little touch of rebel revisionism.

I think we all know what website is getting the bulk of your Christmas shopping dollars this year.

 

[Pat Young]

Ah, another pack of lies.

I have pasted some descriptions of its books from the publisher on this thread. Clearly not just a Lost Cause publisher, but a proudly racist one as well.

 

[Pat Young]

You guys know Lincoln's still dead, right?

That is what Lincoln wants you to think.

 

[Pat Young]

Beginning with the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln, this book explains the so-called emergency powers of the President of the United States. The author draws heavily from a wealth of rare political literature as well as long-forgotten government documents to paint an unsettling picture of American history.

http://confederatereprint.com/product_info.php?products_id=272

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In an online discussion with Greg Durand, the author of this book, a poster identified his website as being pro-slavery. That website has now been taken down, so I don't know its contents. However, Durand's defense is equivocal:

No, I'm not a "defender of slavery." I'm just not an "attacker of slavery."...

I believe that the subject of Southern slavery needs to be dealt with honestly, biblically, and in its historical context, not just by emotionalism and misinformed mud-slinging.

http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/01/31/reconstructionist-war-vision-forum/

 

[CSA Today]

No, back to actual history, if you dare.

 

[DR_Hanna]

A Scriptural Examination of Slavery
$11.00

by Howell Cobb
originally published in 1856

How 'bout that. You found an old book by Howell Cobb. I wonder if it is available for free on internet somewhere. A thoughtful examination of race relations circa 1856, no doubt . A Lost Causer before the Cause was Lost. Cobb was an influential Southern leader from my neck of the woods:
Schooled at Franklin College (UGA), Speaker of the house, Governor of GA, Sec of Treasury under Buchanan. He presided over the Montgomery convention that drafted the Confederate constitution. Defender of Macon and Columbus at the end. Survived the war and died in New York City, 1868.