ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE
One hundred and fifty years ago – April 12, 1861– the American “Civil War” began with shots fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
By 1865 when that part of the conflict ended, 620,000 soldier’s lives had been lost and the country had changed in profound and immutable ways.
Today, in a land where we regularly pledge “one nation, indivisible,” we’re still examining and discussing and debating the why and wherefore.
Thoughts?
"I can not but hate [the prospect of slavery's expansion]. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world – enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites – causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity." – Abraham Lincoln said that in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, October 1854 and archived at National Park Service, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
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