Aaron Schönberg
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln had a number of friends, so he really did not need any enemies. You will understand this as you read on.
You have heard of the Triple Crown in horse racing. Well the Belmont Stakes are named for a resident of New York City in August Belmont and his story is one which would benefit President Donald Trump in the political company which he keeps on his saving of America.
In 1864, there arose a democratic faction who wanted Lincoln defeated and replaced by General George McClellan. This was not some fly by night operation. This was led by Erastus Corning and Dean Richmond of the New York Central Railroad, William Henry Apinwall of the New York to San Francisco steamship lines and Panama rail line which netted 6 million dollars a year. Far outdistancing the others involved in this was August Belmont, thee most prominent Jew in America.
Belmont was born to a wealthy Jewish landholding family in Prussia in 1816 AD in the year of our Lord. At age 14 he was employed as an office boy without pay sweeping and dusting the floors of the powerful Rothschilds banking family in Frankfort, where he began learning finance, and graduated as supervisor of the Rothschild firm in Naples Italy.
In the panic of 1836, he took advantage and moved to New York City, where he set up his banking firm August Belmont & Company, a front for the Rothschilds as their agency in America.
He became a citizen and for Democrats he served on foreign missions, was a minister to Holland and became leader of the Democrat party, and backed Senator Stephen Douglas in the 1860 splitting of the democratic ticket which made Abraham Lincoln a minority president and started the Civil War.
He was an interesting dichotomy, because in fury and courage he had fought a duel in Indiana over a woman with William Hayward of South Carolina and took a bullet to his leg where he walked with a limp the rest of his life.
In an interview with President Lincoln and Secretary Seward, Belmont shipped off to England, where he met with Lord Palmerston and informed him that investment in the South was not a good business risk. In one conversation he had destroyed the South more completely than anything the North had engaged in on the battlefield in 3 years fighting.
Palmerston was quoted to Lincoln, "We do not like slavery, but we do need cotton, and hate your Morrill protective tariff".
Belmont would write the following to a friend as Union Party man, not backing Abraham Lincoln, "I prefer to leave to my children, not the gilded prospects of New York merchant princes, he more enviable title of American citizen, and as long as God spares my life, I shall not falter in my efforts to procure that heritage for them."
Belmont's America though was one where he was against the forming Republican majority in power as he saw the Union Party as the complete destruction of the democratic party in America. This is why Belmont chose George McClellan and the quote is important to read discern. "George McClellan would manage to save the Union, but without entanglement of the slavery issue".
For recollection, George McClellan when heading the Army of the Potomac, had one purpose as a democrat. That was to exhaust both armies, restore the Union, leave slavery alone and restore America to what it was.
If you remember the Palmerston quote above in this, the British did not like slavery, but hated tariffs more, and the British needed slaves to pick the cotton which England needed to survive in trade as an empire.
August Belmont echoed the same mindset to Abraham Lincoln on a trip to occupied Louisiana. Belmont was lecturing the President on the need to not disturb the status quo in Louisanna as cotton there was of the most importance. Focus on that, as winning the war was not what was important. What was important was the cotton trade in gaining Planter cotton, taking the handling fee, and selling it to the mills in England.
Lincoln replied back in a long letter to this financial titan that you can not mend broken eggs and the sooner Louisiana rejoined the union, the things that Belmont was complaining about would come to an end.
There was always something ulterior about August Belmont as a Union man. He raised the first German regiments in New York for the war. He did not raise a Jewish regiment. He raised a German regiment. Some patriotisms are coloured in gold and some patriots are best suited with the red badge of courage to make more gold in the vault.
All Presidents must work deals with allot of interests in their own interests. Abraham Lincoln's idea of a Union Party was his leading the war to a conclusion to end the slavery issue which was dividing America. August Belmont's idea was to end the war, keep slavery for picking cotton for profits with Europe with George McClellan surrendering to the South.
President Donald Trump has the trappings of the same situation in he desires to save America and make America great again, for a Golden Age, but some people in Tel Aviv want a great America to bomb Iran and get them Gaza natural gas and some people in Kiev want America at war with Russia, even a nuclear war, for their being subsidized by the United States.
The President is aware that all which glitters is not gold and that his mission has different people wanting their own ideas fulfilled on the work of that mission when successful.
May God keep and give success to President Trump on his mission.
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