Abraham Lincoln’s Letter Warns: Overuse of Presidential Power IS Surrender of Our Government.

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Today, the House of Representative voted to sue ‘President’ Barack Hessian Obama for overstepping his role as President. He is grabbing dictatorial power. This is an historical first. Obama has been lawless in his actions, many of them impeachable.

Remember how well Obama’s coming out party was well staged back in 2008? He wanted everyone to think he was the man who would bring Lincoln back to life. (Never mind, Lincoln was a Republican)

He stood on the stage in Springfield Illinois, the home of Lincoln, in order to cloak himself in the aura of one of our greatest Presidents. But, Obama is no Lincoln, in fact, while there were a few instances where Lincoln too went beyond the Constitution, unlike Obama, he knew his place But, unlike Obama, Lincoln wanted to preserve, the Constitution.

—-As you will see by the letter below. This letter was written by Lincoln, on September 22, 1861, to one of his dearest friends, Senator Orville Browning of Illinois. The Senator was appalled that Lincoln countermanded an order, given by Major General John Charles Fremont, to take land in Missouri and free all slaves. He was in charge of the army in the West and was to organize an army in a mostly slave state and was having problems, with lack of manpower. He set up his headquarters in St. Louis.

Fremont, on his own authority, issued a proclamation on August 30, confiscating the property of disloyal Missourians and freeing their slaves.

The President was appalled, and stood up against his own party of antislavery people who were for this action, and countermanded it.

Lincoln stood by, the rule of law:

Below is Lincoln’s letter to Senator Browning, who was on the side of Fremont:

Yours of the 17th is just received: and coming from you, I confess it astonishes me. That you should object to my adhering to a law which you had assisted in making and presenting to me less than a month before is odd enough. But his is a very small part.

General Fremont’s proclamation as to confiscation of property and the liberation of slaves is purely political and not within the range of military law or necessity. If a commanding general finds a necessity to seize the farm of a private owner for a pasture, an encampment, or a fortification, he has the right to do so, and to so hold it as long as the necessity lasts, and it is within military law because within military necessity, but to say the farm shall no longer belong to the owner, or his heirs, forever, and this as well when the farm is not needed for military purposes as when it is, is purely political, without the savor of military law about it.

And the same is true of slaves. If the general needs them he can seize them and use them: but when the need is past, it is not for him to fix their permanent future condition. That must be settled according to laws made by lawmakers and not by military proclamations. The proclamation in the point in question is simply, “dictatorship.” It assumes that the general may do anything he pleases–confiscate the lands and fee the slaves of loyal people, as well as of disloyal ones. And going the whole figure, I have no doubt, would be more popular with some thoughtless people than that which has been done! But I cannot assume this reckless position nor allow others to assume it on my responsibility.

(Nobody says: This is NO different than what Obama is doing with the illegal’s. HE is deciding what should be done with these illegal’s,, not Congress, not the law. He is…a dictator, and Lincoln would condemn his actions if he were alive.  )

You speak of it as being the only means of saving the government. On the contrary it is itself the surrender of the government. Can it be pretended that it is any longer the government of the United States–any government of Constitution and laws–wherein a general or a President may make permanent rules of property by proclamation?

I do not say Congress might not with propriety pass a law on the point, just such as General Fremont proclaimed. I do not say I might not, as a member of Congress, vote for it. What I object to is that I, as President, shall expressly or impliedly seize and exercise the permanent legislative function of the government.

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So, next time you see Obama, remember..

Lincoln was a great President. He kept to the ‘rule of law’ and that is why, America survived the Civil War.

Obama, according to Lincoln, IS a dictator and is destroying our government. It doesn’t matter HOW many statues of Lincoln he stands next to, next to Lincoln, Obama is a joke. Obama is…a dictator and not worthy to be our President.

Look how far…we have fallen.

July 31, 2014 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Barack Obama, tyranny, Uncategorized | Obama, tyranny | Leave a comment