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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 18:11:10 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Robert LeFevre on the Civil War (fwd)


>>>From "The Fundamentals of Liberty", by the great
>>libertarian teacher Robert LeFevre:
>>
>>
>>pp. 351-2
>>
>>
>>At Lexington, and in the ensuing years of battle between the American 
>>colonies and their government, the concepts of the rights of man
>>triumphed.  That event signaled the belief that individual human beings
>>could be right and their government could be wrong.  The Northern victory
>>in the Civil War turned back the clock.  It reaffirmed the concept that
>>the government is always right and anyone who opposes it is wrong.
>>
>>A second shot was heard around the world.  The message of this second
>>explosion was the opposite of the message conveyed in the first.  America
>>was tarnished.  We were now to be a governed people, not a free people.
>>
>>Prior to the Northern victory, Americans were accustomed to boast of
>>their great country because the government was small and tractable and
>>they were free.  Today, the boast is that we have a marvelous government
>>that does almost everything for us, assumes our own responsibilities,
>>looks after us unceasingly, and is concerned in ways we can't even yet
>>conceive.
>>
>>But historians are prone to write their views from the position of the
>>throne room.  And the side that controls the propaganda has it within its
>>power to make it appear that every victory is a victory for virtue.  It
>>is not always so.
>>
>>
>>-- Robert Lefevre (1911-1986)


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