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the real lincoln

by charles l c charles landon carter minor

Author: charles l c charles landon carter minor

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“The Real Lincoln” by Charles L.C. Minor is an attempt to refute the mistaken estimate of Abraham Lincoln with the help of solid references and all the witnesses, many of which include Lincoln’s former friends and associates, whose evidence is submitted. The book will be of a great use for those who want to know the whole truth that often is distorted or veiled. Minor presents a brief, though convincing disclosure of the sixteenth President of the United States. The author alleges that anyone, who reads this book, will understand what difference lies between the real Lincoln and what he pronounced to be.

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...evident the only authority for that theorem of politics was the assertions of those charters of popular rights which the late General Grant overthrew with his myrmidons. If at this day, the majority governs anywhere, within the extended limits of political society, it is by the reverence which men pay to positive law. The moral ground has been broken up and swept away. The party of 'moral ideas, ' as the Republican party arrogantly and insolently call themselves, has remitted society, in every land, to the government of force, and we stand now in this advanced era where Caesar and Genseric stood. From that time [the date of the war -upon the Con- federate States] the Republic of the United States, regarded as a model for imitation, ceased, by its own act, to be a government of consent, as in two famous Charters and in the Constitution which created it, it had been with exultation proclaimed to be, and under the control of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party, became a government of...