HOUSE OF CARDS REMINDS ME OF LINCOLN'S HOUSE DIVIDED SPEECH - MANY PARALLELS TO TODAY
Read the whole speech and imagine President Trump saying it!
Lincoln's cabal led the public to believe slavery was going extinct but in reality they were taking baby steps to expand slavery…
Lincoln's 'conspiracy theory'
"Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination – piece of machinery so to speak – compounded of the Nebraska doctrine, and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also, let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidence of design and concert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning."
HIGHLIGHTS
Lincoln talks about the cabal of his day and in terms of game theory "first point gained."
'''This opened all the national territory to slavery, and was the first point gained."
<Repeal Congressional ban on slavery via Judicial Review
>Present day equivalent - Judicial Review by comped Federal Judges blocking Executive Branch Immigration regs
The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the national territory by congressional prohibition.
Four days later, commenced the struggle, which ended in repealing that congressional prohibition.
The election came. Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the indorsement, such as it was, secured. That was the second point gained.
<That if any one man, choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object.
>Present day equiavalent - enslaving local court litigants/stealing their children
That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, not to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States."
Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of "Squatter Sovereignty," and "Sacred right of self-government."
"But," said opposition members, "let us be more specific – let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the territory may exclude slavery." "Not we," said the friends of the measure; and down they voted the amendment.
Buchanan allowed the controversial NEBRASKA BILL
The several points of the Dred Scott decision, in connection with Senator Douglas' "care-not" policy, constitute the piece of machinery, in its present state of advancement. This was the third point gained.
<Dred Scott Decision
>Current day equivalent parents denied all appeals/constitutional protections. Q post #754
The working points of that machinery are:
First, that no negro slave, imported as such from Africa, and no descendant of such slave can ever be a citizen of any State, in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States.
This point is made in order to deprive the negro, in every possible event, of the benefit of this provision of the United States Constitution, which declares that–
"The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States."
Secondly, that "subject to the Constitution of the United States," neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States Territory.
This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the territories with slaves, without danger of losing them as property, and thus to enhance the chances of permanency to the institution through all the future.
Thirdly, that whether the holding a negro in actual slavery in a free State, makes him free, as against the holder, the United States courts will not decide, but will leave to be decided by the courts of any slave State the negro may be forced into by the master.
This point is made, not to be pressed immediately; but, if acquiesced in for a while, and apparently indorsed by the people at an election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free State of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free State.
Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, to not care whether slavery is voted down or voted up.
link to full text of speech:
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/house.htm