After the Federal “bailouts”, and on the cusp of Obama’s Apotheosis:
The Ghosts of Local Governance return to taunt us…
I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American history, to the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the representatives of the federal and democratic parties, denouncing consolidation and centralization of power, as tending to the subversion of State Governments, and to despotism. Robert E. Lee in reply to Lord Acton
(***Note: Just to nip silly comments in the bud since most folks think the Civil War was all about slavery: This is not an approval of ghastly things like slavery, racism, segregation, etc. Rather it is a lamentation of the violent displacement of the Sovereignty of the States which created the Republic, with the current Centralized Monstrosity.***)
Amen, amen, and amen.
…and no nod to the Bush regime’s undermining of basic human rights, honor, decency and rule of law?
Anon: I totally agree with you, but that lame duck is flown, and let us forget that unpleasantness. This is much older than either Obama, or Bush. It’s been going on a long time (John Adams, perhaps?). But, I do think Obama will definitely grow the State to even larger proportions than it is now. He wants to make all these “domestic peace corps” deals, he’s nut’s. He makes FDR look like an anarchist! And since the media wants to link Lincoln to Obama somehow, I felt obliged.
Wonderful quote! Thank you!
I’m just glad to know that there are people out there that realize the war between the states was fought over several issues, not just slavery.
Amen! Amen!
Those old men of the grey were the true patriots.
We had a weekend of civil war re-enactments in my local area (Battle of Prairie Grove).
They’re actually great fun to attend and this one actually occurs on the actual site of the battle – the battlefield is a state park rather than a national park.