“With malice toward none; with charity for all;
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;
To bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace among ourselves…”
I wonder how many of us have ever read them, have ever studied their cause and origins, other than (maybe) just knowing there was a Civil War.
It was a time of distrust, rancor, stereotyping and yes, even hatred — like today. So now the election appears to be over, but how might the distrust and vitriol that has so infected our civic life of late recede? It turns out that history is our guide, our history, one that is rarely taught, dissected or relished. MORE… 
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