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davkakach:

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--- Quote from: Hail Columbia on November 19, 2006, 09:07:57 AM ---Not only do I have The Real Lincoln, I also have DiLorenzo's new book, Lincoln Unmasked.  I strongly recommend both books.

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From what I understand, DiLorenzo is a Jew-hater who belongs to the same circle as Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts, but he still writes the truth, at least with respect to "Honest" Abe and the (unnecessary) Civil War.

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Can you please direct me to his anti-Jewish comments?

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http://againstcommies009.blogspot.com/2006/07/thomas-dilorenzo-defends-hamas-and.html

DiLorenzo belongs to the Kevin MacDonald, Lew Rockwell, Paul Craig Roberts and Pat Buchanan crowd.  Regardless, his books about Lincoln are accurate.

davkakach:
Here's a very nice excerpt from DiLorenzo's book:



MOST NORTHERNERS in 1863 were shocked and surprised by the Emancipation Proclamation because they had not been told by their government that they were fighting and dying by the tens of thousands for the well-being of black strangers in faraway states where most Northerners had never been.  Hostile white immigrant mobs had assaulted blacks in Northern cities for decades, and in July 1863 there were race riots in New York City as whites protested the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1863) and Lincoln's new conscription law (March 1863) by randomly assaulting (and sometimes killing) and and all black people unlucky enough to cross their path.  The conscription law applied only to whites, and those with sufficient money could buy their way out of the draft for $300.  Those without sufficient funds were outraged and made up the rioting mobs.  Lincoln ordered five regiments of troops from the recently concluded Battle of Gettysburg to New York City to quell the riots; the troops achieved this goal by shooting between 300 and 1,000 citizens (there are no hard data on the number of deaths).

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The New York City draft riots apparently occurred when they did---four months after the conscription law was announced---because "not until the weekend of July 11 did New Yorkers fully realized that Democratic officials would fail to shelter them from the draft."  Violent mobs roamed the streets for days, viciously attacking police, affluent Republicans, and blacks.  "Rioters tore through expensive Republican homes on Lexington Avenue and took---or more often destroyed---pictures with gilt frames, elegant pier glasses, sofas, chairs, clocks, furniture of every kind."  . . .

The Emancipation Proclamation also caused a desertion crisis in the U.S. army.  At least 200,000 Federal soldiers deserted; another 120,000 evaded conscription; and at least 90,000 Northern men fled to Canada to avoid conscription while thousands more hid out in the mountains of central Pennsylvania to place themselves beyond the reach of enrollment officers.

Enlistment rates plummeted, as did subscriptions to war bonds, whose price declined sharply.  "Plenty of soldiers believed that the proclamation had changed the purpose of the war," writes James McPherson.  "They professed to feel betrayed.  They were willing to risk their lives for the Union, they said, but not for black freedom."

McPherson writes of a "backlash of anti-emancipation sentiment" in the Federal army . . .  A Massachusetts sargeant wrote in a letter that "if anyone thinks that this army is fighting for the Negro . . . they are terribly mistaken."  Another officer declared that "I don't want to fire another shot for the Negroes and I wish that all the abolitionists were in hell. . . .  I do not want to fight for Lincoln's Negro proclamation one day longer."

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