Submitted by Hermit in the Woods, May 25, 2007 08:30

Thanks to The Sun and Diane Ravitch for making a point about the study of history that needs to be made over and over.

With all the drum-beating in the education industry for more math and science study, it is refreshing that not everyone and not every newspaper has forgotten that the study of history is basic bread to becoming truly educated.

I disagree with anyone who thinks Lincoln was a great President. I know the myth exists, originally planted by Horace Greeley, Lincolln's own press agent, until he came to see the utter depravity of the man and wrote him off as a friend and a leader.

Lincoln was invented by the railroad barons and promoted and elected by them. He was supposed to repay them by having the government finance a continental railroad. The road was built and was financed largely by the government through land transfers, but not before Lincoln could gloat over it.

The American Psychological Association annually studies some famous person. In l988, if I recall correctly, it studiedf Lincoln. It found him to be schritzophenic, which seems to fit the facts...one personality starting the Civil War and one speaking what are certainly Greeley's words at Gettysburg.

The fact is, the Great Emancipator emancipated no one. His famous but false degree applied only to Southern states where it was rightfully ignored and was not prompted by concern for slaves but written only when commanders in Missouri and Tennessee began their own emancipation;i for whch Lincoln was getting no political credit.

There was a criminal side to Lincoln. He was an active participant to the hjacking of the Chicago convention.

Lincoln was rated fifth in a field of six for the nomination. When he was being largely ignroed and it appeared many were ahead of him, the railroads secreted 2,000 gandy dancers and other railroad workers in the basement of the convention site. At the proper moment they went scurrying onto the floor of the convention.Because delegates did not wear identification, it was an easy ploy.

After two hours of attempting to bring order to the disorder, the convention chairman decreed that all those in the hall could vote. (This story is covered in the pages of the Chicago Tribune of the days).

Thus the nomination of one Abraham Lincoln.

When it appeared up to the last days of the war tha t th South might win, Lincoln and his cronoies started sanitizing the records, robbing us today of valuable research material. He feared being shot for treason in starting an illegal war trying to levy ruinous taxes that applied only to Southerners.

These are only a few of the criminal activities of a sorry individual rising to be President. But there have been others, principally in modern times, Truman and Clinton, to name two.

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