Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North is a classic American history text that deals with the Civil War and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and contains the following preface: There is really no Union now between the North and the South. No two nations upon earth entertain feelings of more bitter rancor toward each other than these two nations of the Republic. This remark, which is attributed to Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio, provides the key to American politics in the decade following the Compromise of 1850. To trace this division of the people to its ultimate source, one would have to go far back into colonial times. There was a process of natural selection at work, in the intellectual and economic conditions of the eighteenth century, which inevitably dr...
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