From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
April 4
Pre-Civil War jitters on steroicds!
On the way to his inauguration from
his home in Springfield in 1861 he said in Columbus, Ohio, 'There is nothing
going wrong. We entertain different views upon political questions but nobody
is suffering anything.' And at Cleveland, 'Have they not all their rights now
as they ever had? Do they not have their fugitive slaves returned now as ever?
Have they not the same Constitution that they have lived under for seventy odd
years? What then is the matter with them? Why all this excitement? Why all
these complaints?'
'The
strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing… maybe because the
condition of emptiness is too shameful to divulge.'
- F.
Scott Fitzgerald
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