Lincoln’s Model of a Modern Major General . . .

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Southern Italy was plundered and impoverished by Garibaldi's exploits, just as the American South was plundered and destroyed economically by war and "reconstruction" at the hands of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and the rest.  As with the American "Civil War heroes," Garibaldi never accepted responsibility for his actions.  Why would he?!  Piazza quotes him as saying, years later, that "the outrages and injustices perpetrated against the southern [Italian] people are immense and immeasurable. I do not feel that I was personally responsible, for I have a clear conscience on the matter."  Garabaldi also admitted that he would never do it again, for fear "I would be stoned to death, having engendered nothing but squalor and hate in the process."  It is no mere accident, notes Piazza, that the great migration of Italians to "the new world" in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century came overwhelmingly from the impoverished South.

Garibaldi turned down Lincoln's offer, which is understandable.  If he accepted the offer he would not be terrorizing mostly unarmed Italian peasants, but engaging in a battle to the death with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia which, for the previous two years, had mostly destroyed and devastated Lincoln's invading armies.
-Thomas DiLorenzo

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/thomas-dilorenzo/the-foreign-terrorist-lincoln-tried-to-hire/