1864: If Slavery Is Not Defeated, Does the U.S. Risk a Second Civil War?
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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An 1864 editorial in the Chicago Tribune argued that slavery contradicted the Founders’ vision of a republic and must be eradicated. It reflected wartime, and, later, Reconstruction thinking that connected the nation's survival to emancipation, warning that compromise with slavery risked a second Civil War—and ruin.
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