We know how to save the Union…In giving freedom to the slave, we ensure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Sergei Kirov, a leader of the Russian Revolution and a high-ranking member of the Politburo, is shot to death at his Leningrad office by Communist Party member Leonid Nikolayev, likely at the instigation of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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In McPherson's own words, "This is pushing things too far; But perhaps it was more than coincidence that within five years of that Union victory the forces of liberalism had expanded the suffrage in Britain and toppled emperors in Mexico and France" p.
Kenneth M. Stampp, in the first essay, entitled "Lincoln's History," examines Lincoln's evolving view of American history as related to the preservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery. Stampp here identifies "a conflict in Lincoln's history between individual responsibility and historical determinism, dictated either by the secular environment or by the will of God" p.
Stampp admits that this conflict is still troublesome to modern historians. She believes that Lincoln ultimately came to see the Civil War as a narrative whose outcome God would determine.
Baker decries the fact that these principles of American uniqueness and exceptionalism, in later years, deteriorated into an arrogance, notably in foreign policy. Both mattered profoundly to him, and he believed that one could not be achieved without the other. He fashioned a connection between them, not during the war years, but before" p.
The second group of papers begins with William E. Gienapp's, "Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Leadership. Gienapp states openly that, "In every regard, Lincoln was a superior president" p. This may be true, but the argument is weakened by his subsequent discussions of Lincoln's contemporary critics. Here Neely questions the value and consequences of the continuance of a two-party system in the North during the war.
Neely believes his argument warrants a book-length study. Through this, however, Lincoln's real talent as a writer emerged, and we are much the richer for it. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it.
We - even we here - hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
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