Dear Editor: There’s no celebrating Lincoln this Presidents’ Day for me. Day! Remember when workers used to get two days, one for Lincoln, one for Washington? Not to mention the good old days not long ago when only one person with a job could support a family? Talk about noses to the grindstone! And Uncle Sam keeps telling us how much better off we are! Lincoln brought on the Civil War, not for the noble reason of freeing the slaves, but to keep agrarian South from divorcing industrial North. It was a knock-down drag-out fight, which the North finally won; but from the forced re-union (a rape!) was born Sam. Had the South won, the slaves would have been freed anyway. The evil system was dying, like apartheid in South Africa. A few years longer, yes, but without the horrendous bloodshed and suffering of whites and blacks alike. Frankly, I wish the South had seceded. No grown-pup Sam throwing his homicidal weight around the world. Without Sam there’d be no FBI, CIA, federal bank, Pentagon, income tax. Before the war, federal power was weak, as the founding fathers designed it to be. After, came the Gilded Age; rise of big business, high finance, brought politicians, all fueled by immigrants flooding in to sweat in the North’s satanic mills. Had the South won, the two halves of the Union might well have divided again, into quarters and eighths. I can just see our beloved New Jersey, small and self-contained and free, with its own laws, currency, passports, militia and style. T. Weed