The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861

by Huger William Johnstone

Hamilton’s Federalism was condemned and Jeffersonian Democracy voted into power.

There was never a truer patriot in America than John Adams; yet his administration caused his personal friend, Jefferson, to write the following in the noted Kentucky Resolutions.

“When powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy; and every state has a natural right in cases not within the compact, — casus non federis, — to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits.

“In questions of power then, let there be no more heard of confidence in man; but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”

Had Abraham Lincoln heeded these great truths, there would have been no “War between the States.”

“I simply mean to say that the war will cease, on the part of the Government, whenever it shall cease on the part of those who began it.”

So that any act, any order intended to change the existing status quo at any vital point, especially where an armistice exists, by strengthening, or arranging to strengthen, such a place, thus making force necessary, is a treacherous act of war. Yet, you say that the United States Government, and Abraham Lincoln, ordered, and secretly organized and sent, armed expeditions, under “secret” instructions, to commit acts in violation of existing “armistices.”

(E) “It would be considered not only a declaration but an act of war; and would be resisted to the utmost. “Both sides are faithfully observing the agreement (armistice) entered into by the United States Government and Mr. Mallory and Colonel Chase, which binds us not to reinforce Fort Pickens unless it shall be attacked or threatened. It binds them not to attack it unless we should attempt to reinforce it.”

“This shows that on March 12th, 1861, when that order was issued, it was the ‘wish and intention’ of the U. S. Government to begin war.

“If Lincoln ‘yearned’ for peace, why did he refuse to even discuss peace with the Peace Commissioners who were there in Washington, deceived and waiting? “If ‘peace and union burdened’ his soul, why did he not convene Congress to assume the ‘burden’ of peace, or war, as the Constitution required?

“The ‘Joint Resolution’ names the following six unconstitutional acts, as confessed by Lincoln: “He calls for 75,000 men, April 15th, 1861. “He proclaims a ‘blockade,’ April 19th, 1861. “He proclaims a second blockade, April 27th, 1861. “He authorizes a military officer to suspend Habeas Corpus in Maryland and Pennsylvania, April 27th, 1861. “He calls for 35,000 volunteers. May 3rd, 1861. “He authorizes a military officer to suspend Habeas Corpus in Florida, May 10th, 1861. “Here is the enacting clause of that ‘Joint Resolution;’ “‘Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled; That all the extraordinary acts, proclamations, and orders hereinbefore mentioned be and the same are hereby approved, and declared to be in all respects legal and valid, to the same, and with the same effect as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority, and direction, of the Congress of the United States.’ “In this enacting clause Congress itself brands Lincoln’s acts as illegal, invalid, unconstitutional.”