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not indispensable

Our great leader is dead, but our “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” From The New-York Times April 17, 1865: The Effect of President Lincoln’s Death on National Affairs. The … Continue reading

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puppet show?

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1865 (in same column as the April 9, 1865 written communication between Generals Lee and Grant regarding surrender): JAMES REDPATH, the abolition leader, now the Charleston correspondent of the New York Tribune, … Continue reading

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pasteboard nation

From Harper’s Weekly November 21, 1863: A QUESTION OF ENDURANCE. THE war has now reached a point at which the continued resistance of the rebels is a mere question of endurance. They are suffering privations as severe as were ever … Continue reading

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Senator Johnson Takes Aim

150 years ago today Senator Andrew Johnson from Tennessee made a fired-up speech in the U.S. Senate. His jumping off point was a response to Louisiana Senator Benjamin’s departing words as he left the Senate as a result of Louisiana’s … Continue reading

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