Another "humilated" libertarian would be the great nineteenth-century historian of liberty, Lord Acton, who wrote to General Robert E. Lee on November 4, 1866:
"I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. . . . Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo." (J. Rufus Fears, ed. Selected Writings of Lord Acton, vol. 1 (Liberty Fund, 1985), p. 363.
As a point of fact, the "one nation, indivisible" propaganda that Claremont "Lincoln Fellows" like Sandefur spout was not the work of the founders but of a late nineteenth-century socialist gadfly named Francis Bellamy, who authored the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892. Bellamy had previously been defrocked as a minister in Boston for preaching that Jesus was a socialist. He openly stated that the purpose of the Pledge was to indocrinate school children (and everyone else) in the supposed virtues of a monopolistic, consolidated, Lincolnite state. This of course is also the life work of Harry Jaffa and his fellow Lincoln idolaters. Bellamy wanted a monopolistic, Lincolnite state to achieve socialism; the Sanefurian Jaffa-ites want it because it is more conducive to foreign policy imperialism. Either way, they are both enemies of liberty. How absurd and laughable that Sandefur writes for a magazine called "Liberty."
