Thursday, December 21, 2017

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst:
December 20
On December 20, 1860 the Electoral College met formally to elect Abraham Lincoln President of the United States. On that very same day a special convention was convened in South Carolina to consider and then approve the following Ordinance of Secession: ‘That the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved.’ This bold move – one state out, with maybe more to follow [but no guarantee!], and 33 states in – passed by a vote of 169 to 0. Translation: take no prisoners!

‘No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.’
- Henry Ward Beecher



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