# Joseph Sobran – They Aren’t What They Used to Be – the United States, that is.

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Joseph Sobran –

They Aren’t What They Used to Be – the United States, that
is. Hints at the crimes against humanity that

Abe Lenin used to change “United States” from a plural to a
singular noun.
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In essence, Lincoln made it a crime — “treason,” in fact —
to agree with Jefferson. Northerners who held that free and
independent states had the right to leave the Union — and who
therefore thought Lincoln’s war was wrong — became, in
Lincoln’s mind, the enemy within. In order to win the war, and
reelection, he had to shut them up. But his reign of terror in the
North has received little attention.

He may have “saved the Union,” after a fashion, but the Union he
saved was radically different from the one described in the
Constitution. Even his defenders admit that when they praise him for
creating “a new Constitution” and forging “a second American
Revolution.” Lincoln would have been embarrassed by these
compliments: He always insisted he was only enforcing and conserving
the Constitution as it was written, though the U.S. Supreme Court,
including his own appointees, later ruled many of his acts
unconstitutional.

The Civil War completely changed the basic relation between the
states, including the Northern states, and the Federal Government. For
all practical purposes, the states ceased to be free and independent.
[End the War on Freedom]