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Title: When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams ISBN: 0-8476-9722-3 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (59 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Eye Opener
Comment: I am a retired military oficer that is a student of history out of professional necessity. Subsequently I have read and studied a great many books and sources on the Civil War.
The two themes in this book that I found very interesting were the impact of US trade policy as a principal cause of the war, and the credibility of the legal case for succession. Mr. Adams addresses both of these issues with painstaking detail supporting his case with a unique twist: incorporating the observations of neutral parties to the conflict, ie., European observers principally the great english author Charles Dickens.
I found his approach eye opening because most "experts" of this terrible national tradgedy never mention the Morrill Act, or for that matter any aspect of the trade policies which were instrumental in paving the road to war. Mr. Adams proves beyond any measure the critically of these policies in dividng the nation. Further, few if any civil war "experts", to include academia, ever muster the courage to honestly explain the real reason that Jefferson Davis never went to trial; that the greatest legal minds of that time opined that the South had a legal right to succeed and the righteousness of their cause would be demonsrated in court. Not to mention that some of the best lawyers in the country (many of them "Yankees") were lining up to serve as Davis'defense attorney. The government could not face the embarrassing prospect of losing in court what it had won on the battlefield.
This book sucessfully makes the case for revisiting the approach taken by our public schools and institutions of higther learning in teaching this subject. His writing style held my attention being crisp, and to the point. Lovers of Lincoln be forewarned this book will cause great consternation!
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Brilliant Charles Adams Book
Comment: Charles Adams is an excellent author. I recommend his other books, "Those Dirty Rotten Taxes," as well as "For Good and Evil." His writing is very precise and supported by copious research.
Although most Americans blindly hero-worship Lincoln, he was really a tyrant who nearly destroyed our republic. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus, imprisoned or threatened Maryland legislators so that Maryland could not seceed, ordered the arrest of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for writing a controversial opinion, and in general, was a Very Bad Man.
Incedentally, if Maryland had seceeded, the South probably would have won the war. In illegally preventing Maryland's secession, Lincoln crushed the self-determination of a nation full of people.
This book also reveals that the cause of the war was not slavery or "the Union," but about money and resources. The north wanted to extract money from the south through tarriffs on imported goods.
Rating: 1
Summary: Historical fiction
Comment: This is a history book for functional illiterates. Funny how there is nothing about tariffs in the Crittenden Compromise, the last ditch effort to keep the country from dividing. What a shock. Why not? Because secession wasn't about tariffs. Southern Senators could have rejected the Morrill Tariff in 1861, but they didn't. Why not? They had already walked out. Why did they walk out? Because a "black" Republican had been elected President of the United States.
Again, the Morrill tariff passed three months AFTER seven states had already left. They could have blocked it, but they left. The tariff of 1857, the existing tariff at the time, had bipartisan support. The delegation from South Carolina voted for it. It was the lowest tariff in two decades.
If you think don't think the root cause of secession was slavery and slavery extension, I implore you to go to your library and look through some old southern newspapers of the era -- like the Charleston Mercury. Or maybe just take Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephen's word for it:
"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relation to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists among us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. THIS WAS THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE LATE RUPTURE AND PRESENT REVOLUTION." - Alexander Stephens, March 1861.
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Title: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ISBN: 0761526463 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Constitutional History of Secession by John Remington Graham, Donald Livingston ISBN: 1589800664 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ISBN: 0812693124 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy ISBN: 1565540247 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization by Charles Adams ISBN: 1568332351 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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