Utopia? Hardly ~ “Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon” � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Utopia? Hardly ~

“Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon”

� ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

"Utopia? Hardly ~ “Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon”
July 23, 2011 Gunny G Edit Leave a comment Go to comments

Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon.

Which brings me to a personal confession: Joe Sobran has softened my thinking on Lincoln. When I came to study the Civil War, and study it in-depth, over eight years, it occurred to me that, truly, the conflict is more properly named the War for Southern Independence.

The Northern view of the war which I had been spoon-fed in school parrots the earlier English view of the colonial (American) War of Independence — right down to laughing at the notion that the relevant rebels could possibly claim to be fighting for freedom, merely because of the issue of slavery. By the way, the English figured things out the second time around — and rooted for the Confederacy. In that regard, see Sheldon Vanauken‘s The Glittering Illusion.

This Anglo-Northern myth is exactly that — a myth. Because"..................

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