How Lincoln Rigged the 1864 Election
October 20, 2016
“Under the protection of federal bayonets, New York went Republican,” wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald. Shutting down more than 300 opposition newspapers and imprisoning tens of thousands of Northern civilians without due process for merely criticizing him was also helpful That was just the start of the kind of election fraud that the Democratic Party has now mastered — and brags about it, as seen in the recent Project Veritas video that has exploded over the internet.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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