Toppling Statues
Honest Abe’s Colossal Lie As a schoolboy I considered Abraham Lincoln one of our greatest presidents. His integrity was legendary and his martyr’s death seemed to seal our affections for posterity. Oratory without par, he was dealt a difficult hand by a badly divided nation and heroically, with much opposition, preserved the Union. But I am no longer a schoolboy and have learned to think for myself. His legacy remains: an omnipotent centralized national government unhampered by the constraint of the Constitution. My conclusion is that “Honest Abe” was a colossal liar. Until his death he maintained his racist views that “the race to which he belonged” should remain dominant and that his only reason for war was not to remove “African subjection” but to preserve the Union. The idea that Lincoln was morally opposed to slavery is easy to refute. The fact that so many still embrace him as the “Great Emancipator” proves two things: If you repeat a lie long enou...