By Dale Summitt Full Story
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
America: A nation divided against itself
By Dale Summitt Full Story
Abraham Lincoln, while campaigning for the U.S. Senate from Illinois,
made a now-famous speech on June 16, 1858 in which, citing the
irreconcilable North-South division of America on the eve of the civil
war, said, ” a nation divided against itself cannot stand “; The Dred
Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the prior year 1857, is
regarded by many historians to be the tipping point to the Civil War,
because the ruling dictated that a slave was the property of the owner,
even if that slave stepped onto free soil. Anti-slavery abolitionists
were outraged that a slave on free territory could now be forcibly
removed by the law of the land, back to his or her owner in a slave
state.
By Dale Summitt Full Story
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