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Michael Hoffman's Revelation of the Method
Lynching White People in Montana
A Politically Incorrect History Rescued from Oblivion
Readers are strongly cautioned: some of the accompanying photos of the victims of lynchings herein are graphic. Reading time is approximately 75 minutes.
Preface: This is an extensive study, given that it requires exposition necessary to document what has been, thus far, terra incognita: the mostly consequence-free lynching of white people as a form of institutional terror perpetrated by their kinsmen in the ruling class.
Beginning in the mid-19th century, Montana territory was coveted by men who sought its superintendency in order to establish a monopoly over its abundant natural resources. The instrument of their power was a secret society framework akin to the Freemasons, whose lodges dotted the towns of the Old West with the virulence of a contagion.
It has been this writer’s contention since the publication of They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America, that the Caucasian power class has largely had no use for the Caucasian working class, except as cannon fodder in its fratricidal wars, serfs in its factories, and consumers of its junk food, cigarettes, liquor, polluted air and water, mendacious mass media and loanshark banking.
In the post Civil War South this took the form of “divide-and-conquer,” by sowing division between black and white workers and using the memory of the Confederacy and its defiance of Federal power as the spear point of the operation.
Personally, I would have had no problem with secession if the Confederacy had freed the black slaves as its first order of business, granted them full citizenship, compensated them with land and money for their past invaluable labor, and assisted in their training and education. Instead, the heavily oppressed poor whites of the South, reduced to poverty by having to compete with black slave labor, were inveigled into identifying with their oppressors among the owners of the plantation system.
Adam Hochschild recounts one chapter in the history of this tricknology:
“The United Daughters of the Confederacy and its male counterpart, the United Confederate Veterans, were both dominated by the plantation owners who after the war had managed to hold on to their land or used landed wealth to gain power in the business world. It is no accident that the men’s group sprang into life in 1889 and the women’s in 1894. That was an era of nationwide labor unrest, which reached the South when Black and White dockworkers, streetcar drivers, and other union members in New Orleans walked off the job together in a surprisingly successful general strike in 1892.
“This period also saw the dramatic rise of the People’s Party, better known as the Populists. To the horror of groups like the Daughters, it won 8.5 percent of the popular vote in the 1892 presidential election by railing against plutocracy.
“The Populists were above all the voice of the country’s indebted small farmers. Their moment on the national stage would be short, but the alliances that White Populists forged with Blacks and organized labor were particularly alarming to the Southern elite.
“When a coalition of this sort briefly took control of North Carolina in the mid-1890s, for instance, the number of Black magistrates and other officeholders soared. The legislature repealed restrictions on voting, capped banks’ interest rates, imposed tougher regulations on railroads…
“This was the only state government ever controlled by such a coalition, but for the ruling families of the South it was as horrifying as another invasion by the Union Army. To make sure it would never happen again, Southern states swiftly passed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that dramatically slashed the number of Black—and poor White—voters.
“More violently, the Southern elite inflamed the White racism that had made the Black–White Populist alliance uneasy and fragile to begin with. Nowhere was that alliance crushed more viciously than in Wilmington, North Carolina, which was governed since an 1897 municipal election by a biracial coalition that included Populists.
“On November 10, 1898, thousands of White men swept through town on a murder spree, burning the office of a Black newspaper, forcing both Black and White city officials to flee, and leaving at least sixty Black people dead. Three years later the United Daughters of the Confederacy chose Wilmington as the site of its annual convention…” (New York Review of Books, December 7, 2023, p. 25, italics added).
The Populist Party Platform of 1892 is worthy of study. It helps to dispel the contemporary Right-wing’s candy-coated presentation of our nation’s history, which consistently obscures the role of the Money Power in the oppression of the American people. Here’s an excerpt:
“Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized…the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world…
“…They (the Republicans and the Democrats) have agreed together to ignore, in the coming (1892 presidential) campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption-funds from the millionaires.
“…The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right to organize for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages, a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down…The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires.”
In this study I have focused on the Montana region, though similar vigilante crimes occurred in many parts of the U.S. The chronicle of hangings in America committed by self-appointed executioners has been reduced largely to a study of the undeniable record of the criminal lynchings of black people.
It’s a censored history which conveys the false impression of white poor people generally exempt from vigilante violence and who, amidst an alleged relationship of remarkable solidarity with plutocrats, supposedly enjoyed paternal solicitude from the white ruling class. As the populists testified and as revisionist history demonstrates, this is a species of absolute imposture.
The legend that black people were the nearly exclusive victims of the noose is intended to misdirect and manipulate black analysis of race relations in the U.S. by viewing those relations through a twisted interstice, rather than advancing knowledge of the larger picture, which is our objective here.
The Cryptocracy’s goal has been to instigate mistrust and resentment between the black and white American proletariat by transforming their legitimate grievances toward government and predatory capitalism (as opposed to a Biblical free enterprise system), into a mutual race hatred which checkmates both races.
In the 21st century I regret to say that the vigilante spirit continues to be at work in Montana and Idaho. For instance, last year in Lewiston, Idaho a killer who committed pre-meditated murder in the first degree was found guilty only of manslaughter, which in Idaho carries a maximum sentence of 15 years. The jurors decided that the killer had a sincere belief that his innocent victim was a child molester (contrary to multiple investigations by family court that cleared the targeted man of the false charge). Consequently, the jurors decided the murderer did not deserve death or a long imprisonment for taking the life of an outstanding Christian father.
I’m in favor of the ancient right of jury nullification to overturn a bad law. The last time I checked however, the law against a planned homicide is not such a statute. I knew the victim and I know his grieving family and friends. A rural Idaho jury concluded that a deluded vigilante from within their own community should receive the minimum possible sentence for taking the life of a father from out of town.
What follows is an expanded version of a study first published in the periodical, Revisionist History.® It will comprise one chapter in my forthcoming book, to be published, God willing, in 2025: “The Ruling Class War Against Poor and Working Class Whites.” The project is reader-funded. By way of assistance, paid subscribers to this column can upgrade to “founding member” or remain paid subscribers through 2025. Thank you.
Lynching White People in Montana
A Politically Incorrect History Rescued from Oblivion
By Michael Hoffman. Copyright©2024 by Independent History and Researc
