Comments on: Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s “The Real Lincoln” — a rebuttal

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:44:26 +0000

He can’t of course. This alleged “rebuttal” is just more tripe from a liar.

By: You May Be a Neo-Confederate If: « Almost Chosen People

You May Be a Neo-Confederate If: « Almost Chosen People — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:38:33 +0000

[...] 3. Your favorite Civil War “historian” is Thomas Dilorenzo. [...]

By: Ed Milan

Ed Milan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:37:11 +0000

I have read extensively about Lincoln’s political career and, specifically, his position on the issue of social, political and economic equality for African-Americans. Lincoln was a product of his era and during his political career did not initially believe that African-Americans could be integrated into white society and, therefore, entertained various colonization schemes. As he interacted with educated African-Americans, his beliefs on this controversial issue began to evolve to the point where he could envision such African-Americans participating in American democracy. Had his political career not been cut short by an assassin’s bullet, I believe he would have accepted the idea that all African-Americans had a right to full civil, political and social equality. To freeze Lincoln, as it were, in any given stage of his political evolution, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo appears to do, would be scholastically short-sighted.

By: Ed Milan

Ed Milan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:28:57 +0000

I have read extensively about Lincoln’s political career and, specifically, his position on the issue of social, political and economic equality for African-Americans. Lincoln was a product of his era and during his political career did not initially believe that African-Americans could be integrated into white society and, therefore, entertained various colonization schemes. As he interacted with educated African-Americans,a his beliefs on this controversial issue began to evolve to the point where he could envision such African-Americans participating in American democracy. Had his political career not been cut short by an assassin’s bullet, I believe he would have accepted the idea that all African-Americans had a right to full civil, political and social equality. To freeze Lincoln, as it were, in any given stage of his political evolution, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo does, is to be scholastically short-sighted.

By: Pat Mason

Pat Mason — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:25:35 +0000

I believe it was ‘Dark Knight’ who was “locked in a closet” most of his life, apparently. Most Southerners (along with any honest scholar) knew all about Dishonest Abe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:03:58 +0000

Please explain the suspension of Habeas corpus to my satisfaction as well as the imprisonment without trial of those who disagreed with Lincoln?

Then explain why men such as Robert E. Lee fought for Virgina but opposed slavery and why 80 percent of the southerners who did not own slaves fought?

Do you think Thomas Jefferson believed in a soveriegn Virgina or not?

Was the formation of West Virginia just?

You may not agree with everything in this book but some things should cause you to pause and think.

By: Ron Paul (more) | Grump Daddy

Ron Paul (more) | Grump Daddy — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:29:58 +0000

[...] He has also been critical of Abraham Lincoln, claiming that slavery could have been eliminated by merely compensating slave owners in exchange for their voluntary emancipation of their slaves. The gall of attacking one of our greatest presidents aside, I wondered where he found support for such a statement. Further research revealed a book, The Real Lincoln, authored by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Hmmm! the same guy who thinks the Robber Barons were really great guys who should be praised for their wonderful contributions to our society. A rebuttal to many statements in the Lincoln book is presented in this Hidden History article. [...]

By: Darknight

Darknight — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:35:35 +0000

Someone should lock Tom DiLorenzo and James W. Lowen in a closet together and see which of them comes out sane. Not that either has much sanity to start with.

By: ButlersGhost

ButlersGhost — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:39:43 +0000

It would seem per the latest Lincoln scholarship that Ole Ben Butler’s colonization tale is not so “demolished” after all

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/29.1/magness.html