Lincoln was the author of the un-American one. From Thomas DiLorenzo at lewrockwell.com:
(Two OF Independence, One Against)
Three of the most important American political declarations are the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address, and Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address. The first was a declaration of secession from the British empire. The second was a declaration of secession from the Washington, D.C empire. The third was a declaration of non-independence, ever, under any circumstances, from the D.C. empire – or else.
The legitimate purpose of government, Jefferson famously wrote in the Declaration, was to secure God-given unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Whenever government becomes “destructive of these ends,” then “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government . . .” It is “the Right of the People” to secede.
After the long listing of the “train of abuses” by the government of King George III, Jefferson reminded the world that it was each individual colony or state, joining in a confederacy of united states, that was seceding from the British empire. The representatives of the individual states, he wrote, assembled to “publish and declare” that “these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown . . . and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which independent States may of right do.” The individual, free and independent “States,” in the plural, had rights to do all of these things, said Jefferson. The individual American states were thought to be free and independent in the same sense that France and England were free and independent states.
Three if by air? (/s)
Didn’t Russia help out the Union during C W I?
Ah-ha! One search results says saved their ass.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871.
Hmm, Catherine II believed that an Independent America would be a valuable trading partner other than perfidious Albion AKA UK!
Breaking from System Of A Down:
I-E-A-I-A-I-O (Instrumental)
THERE’S MORE TO THIS THAN WHAT’S FOUND HEREIN: It was the biblically egregious Declaration of Independence that eleven years later birthed the biblically seditious Constitution. And then nearly 100 years later, thanks to Abraham Lincoln and his northern sympathizers, the Confederate States seceded and created a nearly equally biblically seditious Constitution.
The former two responsible for America’s suicidal trek to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently finds herself precipitously teetering on.
And the Confederate States Constitution, had it survived, doing nothing from preventing America’s suicide.
For evidence that the Declaration of Independence was biblically egregious, see free online book “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence” at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.ORG/declaration/declaration-index.html
For evidence that the US Constitution is biblically seditious, https://www.bibleversusconstitution.ORG/BlvcOnline/blvc-index.html
THERE’S MORE TO THIS THAN WHAT’S FOUND HEREIN: It was the biblically egregious Declaration of Independence that eleven years later birthed the biblically seditious Constitution. And then nearly 100 years later, thanks to Abraham Lincoln and his northern sympathizers, the Confederate States seceded and created a nearly equally biblically seditious Constitution.
The former two responsible for America’s suicidal trek to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently finds herself precipitously teetering on.
And the Confederate States Constitution, had it survived, doing nothing from preventing America’s suicide.
For evidence that the Declaration of Independence was biblically egregious, see free online book “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence” at bible versus constitution dot org. Go to our Online Book page and scroll down to title.
For evidence that the US Constitution is biblically seditious, at the same location, see free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective,” in which every Article and Amendment is *examined* by the Bible. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page.