letter to the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots Department

Thursday is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. I would be perplexed by the Lincoln cult if I

thought the prime Lincoln idolizers gave a damn about individual liberty. Lincoln is lionized not

because he saved self-government, but primarily because he sanctified and vastly extended Leviathan.

Here is a riff I did on Lincoln for a National Review Online symposium on Lincoln 8 years ago, and a

snippet on Abe from Attention Deficit Democracy

James Bovard, February 2001:

How can the same people who vigorously support indicting Serbian leaders for war crimes also claim that

Lincoln was a great American president?

Lincoln bears ultimate responsibility for how the North chose to fight the Civil UGGs Sheepskin Cuff

Boots. The attitude of some of the Northern commanders paralleled those of Bosnian Serb commanders more

than many contemporary Americans would like to admit.

In a September 17, 1863, letter to the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots Department, Gen. William Sherman

wrote: “The UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots has the right, and … the … power, to penetrate to every part

of the national domain. We will remove and destroy every obstacle — if need be, take every life, every

acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper.” President Lincoln liked

Sherman’s letter so much that he declared that it should be published.