January 17, 2014 - Statement by Dr. Charles Lincoln

A statement released by Dr. Charles E. Lincoln, III

charles.e.lincoln@gmail.com

Spokesman Southern Spirit Rising 

 

Southerners are treated as second class citizens, a state of affairs existing since the loss of the War to Uphold the Constitution in 1865. Not only our ancestors but their descendants for the succeeding generations have been continually defamed and traumatized as a matter of government policy. It is time the truth be told, and it is time for a meaningful act of reconciliation. 

 

Reconciliation cannot happen when one side silences the other by further traumatizing them. This has been like a battered wife who after 'making up,' is told her bruises and broken teeth were her own fault because she burned the bacon. No, reconciliation is what happens when both sides are respected, admit their wrong doning, and make amends with action.

 

The South was drained of resources and left dry, not just from the War but from the Occupation the Federal government laughingly called 'Reconstruction.' Recovery took generations. 

 

In this case the two sides are not Southern and Black but all Americans, today hammered by the combination of federal government and corporations. 

 

Now, a beginning for the truth. 

 

The facts are these: The Civil War was waged not to end slavery but to prevent the Southern States from exercising their Constitutional right to secession. The immediate reason for the decision by the South went to the issue of taxation, which the Federal government was determined to control and increase beyond the Constitutional limitations set in stone. 

 

The issue of slavery was used to entice Northerners to support the war, which many later regretted, as the result was an enormously enlarged Federal government, a monetary system which had lost its foundation on gold and silver, and a confiscatory income tax. This is also the source of the regulatory infrastructure, including licensing for doing business. The motive was never the well being of the public but income generation for the federal government. 

 

These causes, and a loss of life and property measured in the billions and many believed, retrospectively, they would have listened to William Lloyd Garrison and embraced Secession for the South. Garrison was, initially, an advocate for secession by the North. 

 

Today, far too many Americans have forgotten the facts. Southern Spirit Rising (SouthernSpiritRising.com), is going to provide those facts and return to the South a proper pride in its people and their roots. 

 

Every problem we face today in banking, continuous wars, a regulatory infrastructure run for the benefit of the corporations, and more, can be traced back to the determination of Abraham Lincoln to violate the Constitution he gave an oath to defend. 

 

It is impossible to number the violations suffered by the Southern States and Southerners, but the time for an apology has come. 

 

President Barack Obama, on behalf of the United States you as CEO must extend an apology and offer reparations to the seceding states and to the families of the dead in that war. Because the war was carried out as a fraud against those in the Northern States you should also offer an apology to them and to the families of their dead. 

 

When this has taken place, you will have standing to open a discussion on reconciliation. However, we are not waiting. 

 

The breaking point for me was an announcement made by the Very Reverend David duPlantier during the service in September, at Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans.

When duPlantier made his announcement I knew the time for action had arrived. I began with a very polite letter sent to the leadership of Christ Church Cathedral. It was received with silence and I was given the cut direct by duPlantier.

 

Having an M.A. From Tulane, with honors, a PhD in Anthropology and History from Harvard, and a J.D., from the University of Chicago, School of Law, along with a life time of study on these issues, I understand the facts as do many who have been coerced to remain silent. 

 

The issue was never slavery but the Constitution. But since this has been presented as the issue for 150 years as a justification we will open a discussion of the economics, background, and anthropological significance of slavery and the related issues of cannibalism, torture, and human sacrifice, all common in Africa and Mesoamerica at the time.

The unappetizing fact is Africans who were sold into slavery to America survived and were not eaten. Plans to repatriate former slaves to Africa were met with a marked lack of enthusiasm by those who would have made the journey back to a place where cannibalism was still in active practice until decades after the close of the Civil War. 

 

Clearly, Americans need this information and to understand the underpinnings of the present regime in Washington D. C. and their corporate partners. We are going to provide the facts through a dialog on all of these related issues. 

 

I'm a proud descendant of men who fought at Pickett's Charge. I salute them. 

 

The dialog and examination of facts begins on Sunday, January 19^th, the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If you are in New Orleans salute his statue or place a flower there in grateful memory. 

 

The spirit of Southerners is rising and demanding the truth be told.