Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, August 14, 2009 1:15:13 PM
History it is said, if forgotten shall be repeated. There are so many metaphors, so many sayings, truths, facts, that are being seen, said, used these days, it is no wonder that enlightened and educated people are so concerned for the future of this Nation.
In 1858: http://www.nationalcenter.org/HouseDivided.html
"Lincoln delivered this famous
speech, noted for the phrase "a house divided against itself
cannot stand," when accepting the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senate from Illinois in June of 1858."
MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN
OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither
we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do
it. We are now far into the fifty year since a policy was initiated
with the avowed object and confident promise of putting and end
to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that
agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
In my opinion, it will not cease until a crises shall have been
reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot
stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently
half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved
-- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will
cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the
other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further
spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in
the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or
its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike
lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as
South.
At the end of his speech, Lincoln made a remark that could be taken very prophetic, for it seemed that Lincoln saw the writing on the wall:
"Did we brave all then to falter now?
-- now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent?
The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail -- if we stand firm,
we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay
it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
Lincoln knew that the Nation was going to divide and that Americans would be fighting and killing Americans. He had already in his mind, identified the 'South' as 'enemies', marginalizing the South and all Americans that lived in the South. For all of his greatest, this seemed to be a very large flaw in political brinksmanship by alienating the South and fellow Americans by calling them enemies. Such as the Obama Administration and State Run Media (ABC,CBS,CNN,NBC) are currently doing as well by calling average Americans."nazi's', thugs, un-American,etc. This is to 'paint' any kind of use of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as racist, fringe right wing extremist, unstable people.
Maybe history will be repeating itself sooner than later. Maybe, like a married couple that reach that point where there is no love, no reason to stay together admit that point, divorce and go their separate ways. Maybe this Nation, like the Roman Empire, will divide itself into two halves of the same Nation. People who believe in the standards set by the Founding Fathers, faith in Judeo-Christian-Buddist religions, reward from hard work, will live among each other while those who support Government control over their lives can live with each other. Obama came into the White House with the media singing that he was going to be the 'great uniter' and bring all people together. Reality is showing daily quite the opposite, Obama and his Administration are building walls higher and higher between Americans. Those who are able to deny this usually live in gated communities where the reality of day to day living is vastly altered by biased prisms. I myself, would never want to see such a day, but the continuing actions by the Left, State Run Media, DNC, Obama Administration is straining the ties that bind this Nation together.