By Lee Cary —— Bio and Archives January 18, 2023
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“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”Lincoln knew there was a reckoning ahead based on the increasingly acrimonious division within America. He was not afraid to face it. If there is another Lincoln ahead, we will know him or her by their words. Let’s hope they sound something like Lincoln’s:
We know where we’re trending as a nation. And the trend is not good. We’re moving toward national bankruptcy led by a federal government with an unsatiable appetite for spending money it doesn’t have. Our civil laws, at all levels of governments, are increasingly violated with impunity. And the civility of our society is increasingly fractured by lawlessness. Meanwhile, under the continuing recurrence of failed federal government programs and policies, the Peoples’ disaffection with government is continuously augmented. This disaffection will surface, with a vengeance, when a crisis is reached. In 1861, that crisis was a terrible American Civil War that led to the deaths of, at least, 600,000 Americans, on hundreds of battlefields. As was true then, is true now. The near-and-present danger to America does not come from any one or more nations outside our borders, but from within, from among us. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “I do not expect the Union to be dissolved nor its house to fall, but it will eventually cease to be divided. And it will become all one thing, or all another.”Because what was true in Lincoln’s day remains true: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam, and lives in Texas.