After Gettysburg and Vicksburg in the summer of 1863 the light at the end of the tunnel was in view and the voices of radical Republicans in the North who wanted the slave states obliterated from the map of America (literally, see below) grew louder. And they had the President's ear. There had long been no compromise possible and no compromise would be forthcoming. Such talk at this stage was as good as treason. The administration and Northern sentiment had turned against the slave states, and that with unmitigated fury, bent on CRUSHING; they had turned against Northern Democrats who they pushed aside in utter contempt. Here is Attorney General Bates (an erstwhile Northern Democrat) speaking of those slavers as we have spoken of the modern slavers from 2015-2020:
When the public cauldron is heated into violent ebulition, it is sure to throw up from the bottom of society some of its dirtiest dregs, which, but for the heat and agitation, would have lain embedded in congenial filth in the lowest stratum of society. But once boiled up to the top they expand into foam and froth, dance frantically before the gaping crowd.-Catton, Never Call Retreat, In Letters of Blood, "The Road to Zion" 229.
...the radical Republicans, whose support was essential to [Lincoln]...were beginning to articulate a murky faith of their own. This faith was based on the argument that secession had been effective even though it was both illegal and short-lived. The act of secession (they held) had destroyed the states that subscribed to it; once beaten, these states would simply be conquered territory, to be disposed of as the victors saw fit, and they could not resume their old places because those places no longer existed. (Ibid 229)
It is the Morgenthau Plan for Germany! Raze the German industrial heartland and return it to a pastoral. Abolish Prussia. “Conquered territory”; free “to be disposed of as the victors saw fit”; “those [states] no longer existed.” It is a breathtaking vision. No more Alabama and Texas and Mississippi and and and. State borders dissolved, new lines drawn, new states created. The former Texas becomes New California. The former Alabama, New Massachusetts. Old Mississippi renamed Thompson. Florida divided into Kinzinger in the north and below Lake Okeechobee, South Florida. South Carolina and Northern Georgia become Clyburn. Wyoming, Idaho and Montana will cease to exist as separate states and grouped into one new state to be called, of course, Cheney. Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, state borders obliterated, one new state, Clinton.
As for the “dirtiest dregs”: my proposed Trail of Beers. March them to Alaska on foot; the survivors will be set in a heavily guarded amusement park coextensive with the state, Trump World, with monorails for we radicals to gape and to hunt and to shoot with paint-ball and bb guns.
Mr. Lincoln expressed himself in a a letter to General Schofield...he was willing to see the radicals win...: "They are nearer to me than the other side, in thought and sentiment...They are utterly lawless--the unhandiest devils in the world to deal with--but after all their faces are set Zion-wards. Ibid 231.
The road to Zion was unmapped and poorly lighted, and to follow it with the utterly lawless was perhaps to take a long chance. But the President was determined to be there, and if these lawless ones were the only available companions he would go with them. They at least kept moving. They had undying energy, and they shared with their enemies to the South the belief that it was essential to fight without a let-up until the foe was broken. They were unhandy devils, earning hatred and distrust and giving hatred and distrust in return, but they were also most useful and in the end their help would be essential. (231)
We have been rounding up and eliminating you Trump, 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Hawley, Cruz, Jordan, Gaetz (rhymes withe "rapes"), Mastraino, Christian anti-Americans...so many fascists so much time, we will keep coming with "undying energy," we bathe you in our hate, we will get every last one of you. You will be utterly "BROKEN", your lives solitary, except for your "congenial filth", poor, nasty, brutish, and short. We are coming for you. We are ANTIFA.
