https://lawliberty.org/religious-liberty-without-constitution/ The holdings of the Court have given us an understanding of religion quite detached now from the G-word (the God of Jews and Christians), that Creator who endowed with “rights”—and duties, as Madison said. A sense, in other words, of rights and wrongs—and the capacity to know the difference. But with these moves, the…
Category: A house divided cannot stand
House Divided Speech
Springfield, Illinois
June 16, 1858
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.”
Lessons from Gettysburg: A Conversation with Professor Allen Guelzo
I think those are some of the most remarkable stories to emerge out of the Gettysburg battle. It displayed not only the courage of those individuals, but it displayed something about the American temperament itself. The ordinary American rises to the demand of situations, looks around, sums things up, makes the decision, lives with the…
Boston To Pull Lincoln Emancipation Memorial Following Activist Outcry Over ‘Demeaning’ Depiction Of Freed Slave
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2020/07/01/boston-to-pull-lincoln-emancipation-memorial-following-activist-outcry-over-demeaning-depiction-of-freed-slave/
Lincoln’s New Assassins
Everyone is horrified to learn of the mobs that destroyed black achievements in cities throughout the country, including Tulsa, Oklahoma, a century ago. Here is another mob out to destroy an American achievement from over 150 years ago. The real legacy of the Confederacy resides in these mobs, not in people who wave Confederate flags or…
It’s Time To Cancel The Democratic Party For Its Long History Of Racism
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-6-20-its-time-to-cancel-the-democratic-party-for-racism
Apologize to Your ‘Racist Uncle’
Of course, your uncle wasn’t predicting the future. He’s not a prophet. He was just paying attention to the present. It’s why he bought a rifle. He’d be dumb to use it in self-defense, though. That’s against the rules now. But there was a part of your crazy uncle’s mind that believed despotism was really…
Grim Lessons from Aristotle on the Causes of Civil War
Aristotle didn’t think that these seven factors guarantee civil war in some kind of deterministic formula, and he also had interesting ideas about mitigating them that could be explored in further essays. But surely this astonishing list of familiar spectacles should give us pause. If Aristotle is right that these are the sorts of things…