Source: Common Dreams
by Harvey J Kaye
“The time has come. The crisis intensifies, and the struggle is being joined. Abraham Lincoln’s warning of 1862 (‘We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth’) speaks ever more directly to us. But keep listening. Lincoln did not merely issue a warning to his fellow citizens. Believing they already essentially knew what he was to say, he reminded them of who they were and made it perfectly clear to them what they had to do to overcome the crisis and prevail against the enemy they confronted. He told them that winning the war and sustaining the Union required not simply defeating the Confederacy, but also making America’s revolutionary promise all the more real for all the more Americans. He told them that to truly secure the United States they had to end slavery.” (04/24/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/take-hold-of-radical-u-s-history