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EDITED SUMMARY OF “THE TRUE HISTORY OF AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE”

 

The United States today is not the United States of the late 1700s and 1800s. Many things about our Nation and regions have also changed and evolved over time. Some things have changed perhaps for the better but also some have changed for the worse.

 

The people may have changed and coalesced into a unified nation on many fronts, but the old animosities can still be seen. Millions of additional people, from all nations and regions of the world, have migrated and immigrated to the United States since The American Revolution. Yet, some things never seem to change.

 

One thing that has changed is the political institutions in the United States. Many parties and factions have come on the scene and gone by the wayside. The Republican Party, for example, came on the American political scene in 1854 during a period of great factional, regional and economic struggle for ideological and personal wealth.

 

The Republican Party of today is nothing like the original Republican Party of the 1850s and 1860s. Elements of Republican ideology may still remain but essentially the Party has evolved over time from a staunch protectionist and pro-industrialization, at any and all cost, to a Party of generally moderate to conservative thinking members. Essentially gone are the deep progressive ideologies of the northern industrialists, Abraham Lincoln, our first progressive and pro-industry President, the northern abolitionists and the pro-industry new Republican Party.

 

The new Republican Party and its northeastern pro-industry supporters would soon come into conflict with the pro-agriculture south over the control of the U.S. Economy by way of control of the U.S. House of Representatives… The same old problems our colonial ancestors struggled with returned in the 1850s and 1860s…”taxation without representation” would raise its ugly head again a second time in our Nation’s short history. To build an American Industrial Revolution with a stated objective to control world commerce from the northeastern states was a commendable objective for the northeast since the southeastern agriculture states had discovered and profited on first tobacco and later cotton since 1619. But, the regional problem arose when the northeastern businessmen decided to pack the U.S. House of Representatives with pro-industry delegates and a pro-industry President for the sole purpose of increasing taxes to acquire the huge funds needed to pay for the northeastern regions industrial infrastructure...

 

The new Republican Party emerged in 1854, growing out of a coalition of anti-slavery pro-industrial Whig Party leadership as the old Whig Party dissolved and went defunct, and Free Soil Democrats, who mobilized in opposition to Stephen Douglas's January 1854 introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in the U.S. Congress, a bill which repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise prohibition on slavery in territory north of the 36° 30′ latitude line, even though the institution of slavery was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution of 1787, and so was denounced as an aggressive expansionist pro-slavery maneuver by free soil, abolitionists, Northeastern industrialists and anti-agriculture Northerners. No large unskilled labor force of slaves would be needed in the first place in the new western territories and states because they were not fit to grow tobacco and cotton. The new western states could only grow, like the northeast region, grain, mostly wheat, which was perishable and could not be shipped overseas as tobacco and cotton. Beside, Cyrus McCormick had invented the Mechanical Reaper grain harvester in 1831 and a large unskilled workforce was unnecessary in the first place. The struggle over slave or non-slave western states coming into the Union was actually code worlds for pro-industry and pro-agriculture and the building of the northeastern business tycoon's industrial revolution and their industrial infrastructure...

 

The Republican Party was officially named in 1855 by its main media champion, Samuel Bowles III, publisher of the influential Springfield, Massachusetts daily newspaper, “The Republican”. On Friday, Sept. 21, 1855, the headline in The Republican read: “The Child is Born!” The new Republican Party put forward a vision of protectionism industrializing of the northern and western United States, emphasizing free homesteads to farmers ("free soil" to entice western states into the union as slave-free states, i.e. pro-industry) banking, railroads and industry development and expansion…the new American Industrial Revolution was conceived.

 

The primary movers and shakers of the new Republican Party movement were the North’s industrialists, primarily the railroad tycoons. They were skilled in remaining in the background while their surrogates did their bidding. These surrogates included the new Republican Party leadership, Abraham Lincoln the progressive pro-industry attorney, President, and the small but militant northeastern abolition group which never consisted of more than 3 to 5% of the population but who became the militant arm of the pro-industry tycoons of the northeastern region and assaulted slave owners, their families and homes, murdering many Americans.

 

During The War of 1861-1865 the new Republican Party allowed their President, Abraham Lincoln, to scheme and run roughshod over the Nation, North and South, in order to maintain the high level of taxes being extracted through pro-industry favored tariff legislation punitive to the agriculture South’s highly successfully industries of Tobacco and Cotton, and other minor agriculture products. It would be this early new Republican Party that would allow a minority President to usurp the U.S. Congress’ constitutional powers, ignore the U.S. Supreme Court and nullify the state’s constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government and replace it with Despotism with a tyrannical ruler in order to control the economy and tax collections of the U.S Central Government.

 

Over the intervening years, between Reconstruction (1865-1877) and the 20th century, the South would struggle back until it once again came to the forefront in national leadership and commerce. During the 1960 to 1980s the Republican Party began to moderate. By the 1990s the South transitioned to a Republican stronghold over a number of decades. The Republican Party ideology began to shift and change places with that of the Democrat Party. Over time the Republican Party shifted from a progressive ideology to a conservative ideology, and the Democrat Party shifted from a conservative party to a progressive party ideology. Today the Democrat Party has evolved into a Marxist style socialist party ideology, which is still progressive in its nature...

 

Today the two national political parties fight politically for the hearts of all Americans. The southern states started voting Republican in presidential elections. Then the states began electing Republican senators to fill open seats caused by retirements, and finally governors and state legislatures changed sides. Georgia was the last state to fall, with Sonny Perdue taking the governorship in 2002. Today the Republican Party has little in common with the new Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, the northern industrialists and the North’s abolitionists. Today the Republican Party is a party of moderate and conservative thinking citizens: The Rockefeller Republican moderates and the Reagan Republican conservatives. Today it is the Democrat Party that is the progressive political party of Abraham Lincoln, the progressive political party that continually advocated and still advocates higher taxes and a socialistic approach to jurisprudence.

 

Yet, for all the change and place switching over the years our U.S. Central Government continues to usurp the powers of the states and people that our Founders delegated in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Central Government has exceeded its limited delegated powers as enumerated (listed) in the U.S. Constitution by our Founders. It matters little what the ideological bent of any political party is today. All branches of our Central Government have betrayed the trust of the people and violated their oaths of office and our U.S. Constitution, including our elected representatives...politicians. The political parties may have shifted ideologies but the Central Government is still entrenched with the old progressive factions which the Republican Party of Lincoln and the northern industrialists created. Today the U.S. Central Government has swelled far outside of the U.S. Constitution constraints and has turned on the people. 

 

Today our nation is in serious economic straits once again. If history tells up one thing it is that a central government allowed to take to much power from its people will oppress those people and become a tyrannical government. At the end of the constitutional convention Benjamin Franklin said that the delegates had given us “a republic, if we can keep it!”. Yet, today there seems to be no interest in keeping our republican form of government and enforcing the constraints upon the central government as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

 

During the economic straits preceding the War of 1775-1783 against the oppressive and tyrannical central government of Great Britain the tax burden hoisted on the backs of the American colonists and a lack of representation in the discussion of tariffs and other fees in the British Parliament drove the colonists to a civil war against Great Britain to gain their independence and individual freedom. Their cry was “taxation without representation”! Their action was to secede or withdraw from the union with Great Britain, something that would occur again in 1861.

 

During the economic straits preceding the War of 1861-1865 against the oppressive and tyrannical central government of the United States the tax burden hoisted on the back of the South’s agriculture industries and their overseas shippers, suppliers and customers, caused by the pro-industrial northern and western states’ U.S. House of Representatives majority, new Republican Party delegation that shut the South out of the U.S. Congress legislating process drove the South to withdraw from the Union as stipulated in the Declaration of Independence for which an un-constitutional war was conceived, planned and waged against the South by progressive pro-industry former railroad lawyer minority President Abraham Lincoln to collect exorbitant tariffs and shipping duties from the agriculture region and their overseas trading partners. The pro-agriculture states would eventually be legislated to pay over 80% of all the tax revenue flowing into the U.S. Treasury. These exorbitant taxes would then be granted to Northeastern industrialists to build their industrial infrastructure in the Northeastern United States. That was a violation of the 'apportionment clause of the U.S. Constitution'. For doubters, the tariff war of 1861 was not a war that President Abraham Lincoln wanted or intended to start. In his narcissistic deceptive personality he believed that he could either woo the South back into the Union with his slick rhetorical words or continue collecting the ever increasing higher taxes from the South’s agriculturists and their overseas shippers, suppliers and customers, or by threatening “civil war” against any state that withdrew from the Union force the agriculture states into becoming slaves states to the industrializing northeastern region of the Union. (See Lincoln’s 1st inaugural address) Lincoln would thirdly setup an incident, with the help of General Winfield Scott of the United States Army, that would allow Lincoln to violate the U.S. Constitution and usurp the constitutional powers of the U.S. Congress and make personal war against the peaceably withdrawn states and their people by then a sovereign new nation, the peace loving agriculture Confederate States of America, yet would never admit that any or all of the withdrawn states no longer existed within the United States of America.

 

Lincoln would constantly insist that the withdrawn states were still a legitimate legal part of the Union, but he would hypercritically treat the agriculture states as if they were foreign states or nations. If the withdrawn states were, as Lincoln professed, still states within the Union, he violated the U.S. Constitution by ordering Union military troops into South Carolina and Virginia at Manassas Junction on an ordered mission to proceed to Richmond City, Virginia by rail, encircle the city and capture or kill the new Confederate Central Government officials and politicians. Clearly the 16th President of the United States was hypocritical among his many other faults and shortcomings. Lincoln's narcissism drove him to destroy the pro-industry tycoons' industrial revolution dreams and may have led to his assassination In 1865. The new Republican Party industrial leaders in the northeast staunchly opposed Lincoln's second term...

 

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Respectfully,

 

Al Barrs

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