Praise for shinier Lincolns
Many Idahoans do not realize that a Civil War battle actually took place in these parts. Not only that, but also numerous Civil War Veterans migrated straight to Idaho, immediately following that horrific war’s end.
Because Abe Lincoln helped establish our Idaho territory, it’s refreshing to read that devoted curators will be refurbishing the Boise Lincoln statue and transporting it from its obscure, foliage-hidden-area at the State Veterans Home to a more prominent spot, in time to celebrate our Great Emancipator’s 200th birthday.
This move follows the spirit of Washington, D.C.’s, Lincoln Memorial, in the sense that our ancestors deliberately installed that monument in a remote area of the National Mall. Although this tied in symbolically with the remote nature of Lincoln’s personality, people wishing to honor our founding Republican did not accept his inaccessibility; and have made the pilgrimage to that isolated area so much that it is has now become a “destination monument” and one of the most romantic spots to visit in Washington.
For more about what our historic sites get right or wrong, check out James W. Loewen’s groundbreaking, “Lies Across America.” Dr. Loewen also authored the American Book Award-winner, “Lies My Teacher Told Me.”From the book: “More than any other marker or monument on the American landscape, it continues to speak of later times, even of our time. Its fascinating history offers suggestions as to why some historic sites ‘work’ while others do not.”
Foot marker:
Lincoln’s image will also soon adorn the dollar coin. This will place him, on three denominations at once: the five, the penny and the dollar. As this makes six dollars and one cent, some Lincoln fans will probably want to start playing #601 in lotteries, however others say now is a bad time; it makes no cents to gamble away our nation’s money and our founding Republican would turn over in his Illinois wheat field grave, if he saw how badly things have added up here.
As all humans have two sides, so did Lincoln. Many historians have pointed out the inner struggles he faced in his epic balancing act to lead our fractured Union. In fact, there are more biographies on Abraham Lincoln than there are on anyone else besides Napoleon Bonaparte. Jackie Jura reveals two interesting faces of Lincoln in her Orwell Today series Lincoln’s Mirror-Image Omen, and the doubly illuminating Lincoln’s premonition dream about JFK’s funeral.
I would wager that there are bloggers out there who would now like to talk about Lincoln’s flipside. And I welcome those reasoned words and thoughtful deeds; as frank open discussion is fundamental to the type of cohesive nation strongly envisioned by Lincoln, the slaves he helped free, and their dynamic descendants.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Being a rookie blogger, I couldn’t figure how to imbed this, so here goes instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMMIKM1-l4Q
October 31st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Its been a long bloody road of assassinations and lynchings leading up to Obama. Hopefully the secret service can protect him and keep him from being wacked when he becomes president.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If…” Obama is wacked when he becomes President, ” ……you can bet it was planned that way.” - FDR
Lincoln is credited with being an “emancipator,” but no one was emancipated. He was assassinated. The 14th Amendment took the slaves away from their masters and gave them new masters, the United States federal government, as well as created the opportunity of voluntary slavery for all, regardless of race.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:28 am
Very good stuff, JB, keep it up.
Ya know very few people talk about Lincoln’s depression and maybe back then that sorta thing was kept from view. It would be interesting to know if that was brought about external factors such as the war, or was an actual diagnosis. Or both.
I’m not sure the gravity of what he did sunk into me fully- until I toured Gettysburg for a couple of days. That’s when the enormity of the situation and what a ridiculous waste of life occurred at that battlefield and others truly sunk in-Lincoln arrived at Gettysburg a few days after the battle, and delivered a hastily scrawled speech that would become epic.
I had the same thoughts at Arlington and “The Wall.” The Vietnam memorial physically made me ill.
You can’t help think that humans just haven’t evolved all that much. That we really are just a bunch of separatist fear driven tribes trying to one up each other, intimidate one another, or kill one another.
A bunch of fear driven, judgmental, ego maniacs. Will we evolve out?
A funny story. I few months ago, I find myself defending “A New Earth” to a man who has had a little too much wine. He has decided that “contempt prior to investigation” will rule his argument. He calls the book, and similar ones, BS. He of course, did not read it. He is fearful and defending his lack of knowledge. Now the concepts in a “New Earth” are worth defending. But in fact, to an unconscious mind made further so buy a large dose of wine, I find myself in a no win situation which of course, my conscious and egoic mind must vacate, with some sense of understanding. I find myself letting him “win” and de-escalating this in a face saving manner lest I obtain a new enemy for life.
So how do we get the word out that there is a better way to live without coming off as smug or know it all? Not sure. Working on that very trick.
Brian
November 1st, 2008 at 9:47 am
Brian,
Understand Lincoln better here;
http://www.archive.org/details/suppressedtrutha00mcca
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=14234&st=0&
“Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence.”
Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss writer and philosopher.
“When freedom is at stake silence is not golden-it is yellow.”
Lincoln understood what was going on in the world around him, he knew he could not stop it, and he knew it would eventually kill him, he said so.
“It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country–the United States–are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.”
Marquis De LaFayette 1757-1834; French statesman and general; served in the Continental Army under General George Washington.
“If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.”
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States.
Source : Charles Chiniquy–50 years in the Church of Rome. Personal friend of the 16th President. ex-jesuit.
Lincoln said :
” The common people see and hear the big noisy wheels of the Southern Confederacy’s cars; they call them Jeff Davis, Lee, Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, etc., and they honestly think they are the motive of power, the first cause of our troubles. But this is a mistake. The true motive of power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns and confessional boxes of Rome–
A President of the United States said those words, there in his archives.
In fulfilling the Councils of Vienna, Verona, and Chieri, the Catholic Church divided the North and South through their agent, John C, Calhoun. They sought to destroy the economy through Nicholas Biddle and then used the poisen cup, and the assassins bullet to assassinate and attempt to assassinate a total of five Presidents within a span of twenty-five years. They reddened American soil with the blood of thousands of American young men in the terrible Civil War. Oh, that we had eyes to see that Rome never changes !!! What she did, she is still doing today. May God Help us to understand the evil of the Roman Papacy, then and now.
Congressional Globes, Annals, and Records of Congress, Congressional Library Archives, U.S. Court cases, in the hundreds if not thousands, Prove it !!!
The 16th President fully understood who he fought, and recognized he could not save a Nation, a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, nor the minds of his people. He knew they sought to kill him, he had been threatened directly by them. It is a matter of historical record.
This could cause a brave man to be depressed while fighting an enemy he knew had already won. BUT, he fought on till the bitter end.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Thanks to everybody for your comments.
Tim Woodward ran another story about the Boise Abe Lincoln statue last week:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/557686.html
I wonder how many Idahoans will travel to Washington D.C. for Obama’s inauguration.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
wonderful — interesting writing —
always look forward to MR. JIM BANHOLZER’S WORKS!!!!