The re-enactment of Pres. Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration
Robert Morrison’s fine essay on the recent re-enactment of Pres. Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861. The Union, he said, was older than the Constitution. The Union existed, Lincoln held, from the moment of the Continental Congress’ Articles of Association in 1774. Lincoln cited the Declaration’s highest principles in asserting that the Union was continued in [...]
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