With heavy poignancy, he noted that both the North and the South “read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other.” “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Lincoln’s political career grew from his opposition to the notion of “popular sovereignty,” which stated that territories north of the line could enter the union as slave or free states based on the votes of white men.
Author: Tyler O'Neil
Published at: 2026-03-03 23:00:00
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