The League of the South looks to the present and future. However, from time to time we do look back at our past.
This 14th of April will mark the 150th anniversary of John Wilkes Booth’s execution of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln. The League will, in some form or fashion, celebrate this event. We remember Booth’s diary entry: “Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.” A century and a half after the fact, The League of the South thanks Mr. Booth for his service to the South and to humanity.
Stay tuned . . .
Michael Hill
Some Southerners saw what Booth did as making things worse for our defeated and prostrate Nation, but on the other hand, a live Lincoln could have made things a good deal worse and would’ve ruled this land as a ‘Dictator for Life’ much as FDR was, until his natural death. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Russian Orthodox St. Seraphim of Sarov wrote the Tsar of Russia about God’s anger being upon Lincoln for his sins, and said he would face a judgement of ‘utter destruction’…. Like Judas who died also on Good Friday, but the infidel Lincoln watched a Comedic play instead of attending a church service.
I may have to re-think my opinions on John Wilkes Booth.
I don’t think Lincoln would hav been a dictator for life. He was deeply unpopular even in the North. Indeed, Radical Republicans might hav even impeacht him as they did Johnson.
The original diary of one of the union soldiers who captured Booth was for sale on ebay several years ago. The price precluded any normal person/non-institution from purchasing such a piece of history. I copy and posted some of the unknown historical information at the time but have since lost that computer to a crash.
I remember the guard talking about severing the head of Booth and the union soldiers kicking it around in the pasture near a barn. Of course, I’m talking about this as a grotesque gesture but to point out the unmentionable pieces of history that tend to be ignored, forgotten and lost with time. As the victor writes the history book you’ll never see that in a movie……..