Martin Scorcese’s new movie, “The Gangs of New York,” is remarkable in that it accurately portrays the New York City working class’s violent opposition to the Lincoln administration during the War for Southern Independence. At one point in the movie, as the caskets of dead New Yorkers are piled up on the docks, a large crowd chants, “New York should secede!” “New York should secede!” In another scene Irish immigrants who have been in the U.S. for only a few days are told to sign one piece of paper that grants them citizenship and another one that enrolls them in … Continue reading Anti-Lincoln Gangs of New York