"Lincoln's Surveillance State" Op-Ed NYTimes July 6, 2013

[David Lockmiller]

Many thanks to David for sending these images. He was able to obtain images of the actual messages written by both Stanton and Lincoln from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.

Laurie Verge recently reported:

It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said Thursday it should have recognized the greatness of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered.

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg retracted a dismissive editorial penned by its Civil War-era predecessor, The Harrisburg Patriot & Union.

The president's speech is now considered a triumph of American oratory.

The retraction said the newspaper's November 1863 coverage was wrong when it described the speech as "silly remarks" that deserved a "veil of oblivion."



Correspondingly, I would like to see a full retraction of the NYTimes Op-Ed "Lincoln's Surveillance State" (published July 5, 2013) on page one of a NYTimes Sunday edition, at the NYTimes earliest opportunity, and with a complete and fully candid explanation of how this successful "Lincoln hoax" was perpetrated upon the editorial staff of the NYTimes. The "Lincoln hoax" was based upon the words penned by Secretary of War Stanton and President Lincoln in reply on January 24, 1862 (as shown above).