It's Time to Let History Show Lincoln as the Criminal Tyrant He Was!
THE NORTHERN MIRAGE: Unmasking the Myth of Lincoln’s Invincibility
THE NORTHERN MIRAGE: Unmasking the Myth of Lincoln’s Invincibility
Through the Eyes of His Own Press:
“No living man was ever charged with political crimes of such multiplicity and such enormity as Abraham Lincoln. He has been denounced without end as a perjurer, a usurper, a tyrant, a subverter of the Constitution, a destroyer of the liberties of his country, a reckless desperado, a heartless trifler over the last agonies of an expiring nation. Had that which has been said of him been true there is no circle in Dante’s Inferno full enough of torment to expiate his iniquities.”
These scorching words, penned by the New York Times in May 1864, capture the raw, unfiltered contempt that permeated Northern journalism during the War Between the States—a sentiment far removed from the hagiographic cult that would later canonize Lincoln as the Union’s unassailable savior.
In the crucible of 1861-1865, as the constitutional compact between sovereign states was rent asunder by federal aggression, Northern newspapers—those supposed bastions of Republican fervor—routinely eviscerated their own president, branding him an imbecile, a despot, and a bungler whose every edict trampled the very liberties he professed to defend.
This was no mere partisan sniping from Copperhead fringes; it echoed across mainstream dailies from New York to Chicago, revealing a…