Crimes of the Civil War & Curse of the Funding System (1868) - Hon. Henry Clay Dean
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I watched the PBS "History Detectives" program, that I had
recorded last month, last night and it told the story of a cane with a top made
in the shape of a striking copperhead snake. It belongs to a descendant of a
Northern Copperhead leader named Henry Clay Dean. After certifying that the
cane was authentic and had been given to Dean by "rebel friends", the moderator
gave the title of this book that was published in 1868. The excerpt on this
site is fascinating. I intend to add this reprinted book to my collection in
the near future.
~Jay~
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"Written by a Northern Christian judge, this extremely rare and suppressed book
exposes the despotism of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party and unmasks
the great body of bankers and bondholders who sought to grow wealthy by loaning
the bankrupt United States government the money it needed to carry on war
against the South. The reader of this hefty volume will discover the origin of
unbacked "legal tender" paper "money" (today known as Federal Reserve Notes) in
the unconstitutional alliance between Lincoln's Administration and these
mostly-foreign financiers, and will learn the true purpose of the creation of
the national debt -- a debt which "shall not be questioned" under Section Four
of the bogus "Fourteenth Amendment" and which today has mushroomed to over five
trillion dollars. This book is must reading for those who wish to understand the
financial Leviathan which waged war against the South from 1861-1865 and which
continues to feed upon the people of both sections today. Originally published
in 1868. 546 pages. -Paperback (Confederate Reprint Company) < a name="article">
[Excerpt]
The Bloodmarket of the Rich
by Henry Clay Dean
All wars of modern times have been under the control of capitalists. In Europe,
the moneyed kings dictate terms to their political sovereigns, control wars and
make peace. In America, the bankers contrived the late civil war. It was quite
as much a scheme of money as of policy. War would not have been created if the
banks had refused to engage in it. It could not have been carried on, if the
capital of the country had manfully opposed it.
The liberty of the people, the peace of the world and material prosperity of the
poor would have been undisturbed, and even the condition of the negroes would
have been better than now, but for these men.
The capitalists and stock-gamblers in Europe, by their alliance with the
political adventurers of America, carefully planned this war, in the interest of
despotism and the funding system. They anticipated every argument and prepared
the public mind for war in advance. During the war they prepared for the debt
and continued the war, that the debt might reach its present enormous extent.
These gamesters upon human life and public misfortune, have fattened upon the
bloody conflicts of emperors and kings, and inherit fortunes coined out of the
most frightful battles of modern times. Austria, France, Prussia and England
have been fettered by the mortgages entailed by these brokers, upon their
property and industry.
Such is the perfection of the conspiracy against the property of the world,
entered into by these stock gamblers, that war is always precipitated upon a
particular country, whenever it is believed to be ripe for revolution or fat
enough to enrich the money trade.
For the purpose of creating civil war, destroying the agriculture of the South,
entailing a debt upon the people and, if possible, the utter destruction of
Republican government in the United States, English emissaries were, by the
monied interests of Europe, under religious guise, sent to America to stir up
civil war. Pamphleteers added their wicked labors to the work. Sumner's
celebrated visit to Europe was in the same general interest, and when Gen. James
Shields of the United States army, had left the valley of the Shenandoah, Sumner
assured him that he was glad that the rebels were not entirely defeated, because
his great object would not be accomplished if they were. The destruction of our
prosperity, the ultimatum of the stock gamblers, had not been reached. The raid
of John Brown and the partizan conflicts, were but incidents in the grand
purpose to create war and base a funding system upon it.
Such has been the unbroken success of the professional mischief-makers of the
world, that they have succeeded in Europe for a full half century, in fastening
ruin and bankruptcy upon every sovereignty which was directed by their counsels
or fell into their grasp.
Bonaparte eluded their machinations; this only provoked their wrath and drove
them to the combinations which culminated at Waterloo, in the destruction of his
empire and liberty.
The Mexican war was the first game played by the American stockbrokers, upon
which the general peace of the Western Hemisphere was staked and lost. The late
civil war has been a success, and if the stakes are delivered up by the ruined
people to the stockgamblers, permanent peace in the United States is gone
forever.
The successes have emboldened the stockbrokers, and given them possession of
every avenue to popular favor and power. The pulpit, the press and the army,
have been used as their instrument, to secure their prize in the blood market of
the world. These instruments of popular favor speak of war as the only means of
government to be used upon every occasion to gratify spites, to punish
indignities, or secure plunder. Unless this spirit be arrested promptly, our
peace is imperilled and will be destroyed.
There is only one way to counteract this wicked spirit; and that is, to give
notice to the world that debts contracted in such an enterprise, bind no one and
cannot be collected. If it be wicked to engage in wars, it is also unjust to pay
money to carry on wars; but if it be unjust to carry on wars by ready money, how
much more atrocious to carry them on by anticipating the credit of generations.
It is the duty of all sincere peace men to make a demonstration against this
usurpation; and let it be understood that no debt made on the interest of a war
of premeditated plunder, can be enforced upon a free people, or be sanctioned by
the friends of peace.
There is an Equity, which, in all public affairs, looks to the purposes, the
mode and the application of monies in the creation of debts, when debts have
been created in fraud, for purposes of corruption, and the parties issuing
evidence of debt were particeps criminis and beneficiaries, then the question
goes back to the legislatures, which must levy taxes before they can be
collected. The new legislature must be elected by the people. The people of no
country hasten to pay debts known to be fraudulent or unjust. Against the
indiscriminate payment of no debt ever contracted, has there been so many
conclusive arguments for utter repudiation as the debt now claimed by the
foreign capitalists and domestic speculators, holding bonds and certificates of
indebtedness against the United States, as the basis of a perpetual system of
gambling upon the labor and commerce of the country.
The objectors and objections are susceptible of a clear and easy classification,
and when carefully embodied, embrace all of the elements of good government.
Every consistent friend of peace must oppose the payment of the debt. If it be
wrong to engage in a war of unparalleled cruelty and horror, it cannot be right
to compensate the worst participants in it; men whose business is to inflame
wars, to fatten upon the blood of the innocent, and hoard up the treasure gained
by the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings, hurried into the
presence of God without thought or preparation.
What care these men -- the brokers in immortal souls -- for the burning of
cities, barns, mills, and the desolation of whole regions of cultivated lands;
with the food and raiment of decrepid old men, feeble women, and helpless
children; the razing of churches and desecration of cemeteries?
Experience for the last three centuries demonstrates that the capitalists of the
world hold the peace and the destiny of nations in their hands; they create war
and make peace. The superstitions of religion and the malignity of politics, are
under the mercenary control of capital. The payment of this debt is a test
question of civilization, which the gamblers in public stocks, watch with an
intense interest, that Christians might well emulate in the propagation of the
gospel.
Wars in Europe have placed her mercenary bankers in princely opulence. They
furnish the sinews of war, and command peace whenever they have sufficiently
involved the imperial powers to secure an increase of annuities, and kings
quiescently yield to their behests.
These kingly brokers watch the probabilities of war with the same keen scent
that vultures follow the camp of moving armies, to fatten on the offal. Such has
been their success and sagacity, that whilst kings exercise arbitrary power over
the lives and liberties of their subjects, by war and conscription, these
bankers divide the regal power by subsidizing the labor of the subjects of kings
in advance, absorbing it in taxations levied at their direction; purchasing
kings, bribing judges, suborning witnesses, entering into partnerships with
legislatures, commissioning military officers, and hiring standing armies to
stamp out the liberties of the people, who are forced to support all of these by
taxation.
The United States have laid the foundation for just such a comprehensive system
of monied oligarchy. There is now thrust into our faces the frightful picture,
by every newspaper under the control of capital, predictions of war, and
clamoring for blood as the remedy for every trivial evil, that adventurers may
reap a rich harvest from the vices of the wicked, the follies of the weak, and
the general profligacy of society. Such is the spirit of fanaticism, and the
maddened temper of bad men aspiring to power, that all argument is ridiculed,
except that which opens up a new field of plunder, or draws new victims into the
net of their insatiate lust of gain.
If such men succeed in funding and consolidating the public debt made during the
war, they have established a precedent which will assure them the power to
incite a war at any time hereafter, when whim, interest or bad feeling may
indicate either its profit or necessity. A strict and rigid settlement,
according to the equities of eternal justice, is the only remedy for the great
evil upon us. This is the clearest and most direct way to teach these gentlemen
what they may not do, although they inflame the vilest passions of human nature
into war; yet they must be taught that they cannot control the public conscience
to enslave itself, and enforce perpetual bondage upon a people born free; that
they cannot safely create and carry on wars, wicked and destructive in
themselves, which might be averted, but for the persistent chicanery of capital,
which uses all of the well known arts of diplomacy to involve the people in
civil war; which, failing in every other means to precipitate their
revolutionary ends upon the country, connive at war, eschew compromise, and mob
and murder the friends of peace.
The only hope of peace is in the destruction of the prosperity of mercenaries
engaged in provoking civil wars. He is neither an intelligent nor a true friend
of peace, who will not boldly repudiate every illegal, fraudulent and vicious
claim against the labor of the people to satiate the venality of capital,
fattened on blood.
This style of mortgaging labor in anticipated taxation is a wicked device of
modern times, to carry on wars of conquest, wars of subjugation, wars for
plunder and wars to feed the malignity of bad men. It has never been
successfully carried out to ensure more than annually accruing interest on the
debt, and then only at reduced rates, and when it could be made the ministering
servant of a system of aristocracy and overbearing power. Let it be an avowed
article of American faith, that no war of money, no war for money can be
successfully prosecuted and carried on under the auspices of a free people;
henceforth capitalists will have neither the will or power to involve a peaceful
people in universal carnage. Such has been the work of war upon our social
system, sought to be ratified by the sanction of the people in the submission to
this debt, that it binds us hand and foot and adds to war slavery, to slavery
all of its concomitant degradation."
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~Texas Jay
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