In DiLorenzo’s book, THE REAL LINCOLN A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, this book gives a critical overview of President Lincoln; his view on slavery, the National Bank and the Reconstruction. DiLorenzo’s book examines the actions taken by President Lincoln, and gives “evidence that Abraham Lincoln is not the Great Emancipator, but the Great Centralizer.” (xiii) In a review published by David Gordon, “The primary thesis is that Lincoln was a "white supremacist" with no principled interest in abolishing slavery, and believed in a strong central government that imposed high tariffs and a nationalized banking system. He attributes the South 's secession to Lincoln 's economic policies rather than a desire
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When Lincoln spoke at Clay’s funeral, he compared himself with Clay, in that they cared about human liberty. However, his mentor was actually a slave owner. Author Roy Basler, writes how Lincoln had no solution to slavery and he supported the Clay idea of “Colonization” for all blacks. Clay was a member of the American Colonization Society. The goal of the group was to send all blacks back to Africa. “Lincoln approvingly quoted Clay as saying that, there is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children.” (17) In 1862, Lincoln repeated in a message to Congress, “I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization.” (17) Historian P.J. Staudenraus suggested Lincoln’s administration tried to work with the President of Liberia, as he thought that was a “logical place for American Negroes.” (19) Although he was known for the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s political position had the US protecting the blacks, but they actually could not vote and they had no social equalities that the white people had. “He supported and voted for all the laws of his own state that denied blacks basic citizenship rights and economic freedoms and did not object to the constitutional prohibition …show more content…
Jaffa. His views of Abraham Lincoln were completely opposite and he tried to dispel any untruths DiLorenzo implies. Jaffa states, “Lincoln argued insistently that all those who had come to America 's shores, even those who were not descendants of the first European settlers and founding generation, had as much right to connect themselves to the premise of the Declaration of Independence as any other; "they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are," as Lincoln put it in his Chicago speech of July 10, 1858. This premise extended to Africans brought to America 's shores as slaves. Even as God delivered the Israelites from bondage, these latter-day children of bondage will surely be freed, as no people, in principle, is excluded from being admitted to the hearth embodying America 's founding principles. No one human being or group of human beings differs so much in nature from any other as to justify slavery.” He suggested this was Lincoln’s basic moral detail. Son of Italian immigrants, Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola. He is a researcher at the Independent Institute and holds a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech. He is a qualified to write this book because of his education and research experience. He has written several articles dealing
When Lincoln spoke at Clay’s funeral, he compared himself with Clay, in that they cared about human liberty. However, his mentor was actually a slave owner. Author Roy Basler, writes how Lincoln had no solution to slavery and he supported the Clay idea of “Colonization” for all blacks. Clay was a member of the American Colonization Society. The goal of the group was to send all blacks back to Africa. “Lincoln approvingly quoted Clay as saying that, there is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children.” (17) In 1862, Lincoln repeated in a message to Congress, “I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization.” (17) Historian P.J. Staudenraus suggested Lincoln’s administration tried to work with the President of Liberia, as he thought that was a “logical place for American Negroes.” (19) Although he was known for the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s political position had the US protecting the blacks, but they actually could not vote and they had no social equalities that the white people had. “He supported and voted for all the laws of his own state that denied blacks basic citizenship rights and economic freedoms and did not object to the constitutional prohibition …show more content…
Jaffa. His views of Abraham Lincoln were completely opposite and he tried to dispel any untruths DiLorenzo implies. Jaffa states, “Lincoln argued insistently that all those who had come to America 's shores, even those who were not descendants of the first European settlers and founding generation, had as much right to connect themselves to the premise of the Declaration of Independence as any other; "they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are," as Lincoln put it in his Chicago speech of July 10, 1858. This premise extended to Africans brought to America 's shores as slaves. Even as God delivered the Israelites from bondage, these latter-day children of bondage will surely be freed, as no people, in principle, is excluded from being admitted to the hearth embodying America 's founding principles. No one human being or group of human beings differs so much in nature from any other as to justify slavery.” He suggested this was Lincoln’s basic moral detail. Son of Italian immigrants, Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola. He is a researcher at the Independent Institute and holds a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech. He is a qualified to write this book because of his education and research experience. He has written several articles dealing