The great oracle of today’s Republican party has just announced that Abraham Lincoln could and should have been made to disappear from history, if only some stable genius of a negotiator had been around to avert the Civil War.
It’s possible that tough-lady Haley’s recent back-and-forth
on the cause of that war provoked some interest in the subject on the part of
Donald Trump and that one of his flunkies actually scrounged up enough
knowledge to put together a large-print brief for him, describing the Peace
Conference of 1861. All right, I only said
it’s possible.
The Conference was a veritable Who’s Who of the bipartisan
Establishment as it existed before the rise of the Republican Party, and the proposed
“Peace Amendment” it produced would have perpetually enshrined slavery in the
slave states and written both Dred Scott and Stephen Douglas’ “popular
sovereignty” into the Constitution (effectively enshrining it throughout the rest
of the country) – all in hopes of keeping the border states that had not yet
seceded from doing so in time to join Jeff Davis in hoisting the Confederate battle
flag.
The Americans of that day who had a hard time
envisioning negro slavery prevailing through the Nineteenth and into the
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, along with those Southerners who were
skeptical about an unamendable Amendment, were less than impressed. But that’s only because those benighted folk
lacked a Leader and divinely inspired Deal-maker with the fantastic skill and
vision of the founder of Trump University and Trump Casino.
Gosh, how different all
of history might have been!
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