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This article by Gary North has some great insights. Some excerpts:
...We are told that this Presidential election is the most important in 50 years...
...Here is a list of crucial issues in American political life today. Which of these is central to the campaign?...
...The most important Presidential election in American history was held in 1860, when the former Mary Todd's two suitors, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, lawyers for the Illinois Central Railroad, squared off for the second time, the first being the office of U.S. Senate in 1858. The outcome led to the secession of most Southern states before Lincoln was inaugurated. The death toll of the Civil War has recently been increased from an admitted 630,000 to about 700,000. It is clear that no other election ever produced anything like that...
...What was the dividing...issue of the election of 1860? That is, what...issue was the crucial one that the election would surely settle...? Answer: the one which both candidates denied was an issue. Abolition.
I found it here: http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1208.html
You can read the entire article here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/10188.cfm
I always like reading Gary North. I don't always agree with him. But, he does offer thoughts and insights others miss.
...We are told that this Presidential election is the most important in 50 years...
...Here is a list of crucial issues in American political life today. Which of these is central to the campaign?...
...The most important Presidential election in American history was held in 1860, when the former Mary Todd's two suitors, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, lawyers for the Illinois Central Railroad, squared off for the second time, the first being the office of U.S. Senate in 1858. The outcome led to the secession of most Southern states before Lincoln was inaugurated. The death toll of the Civil War has recently been increased from an admitted 630,000 to about 700,000. It is clear that no other election ever produced anything like that...
...What was the dividing...issue of the election of 1860? That is, what...issue was the crucial one that the election would surely settle...? Answer: the one which both candidates denied was an issue. Abolition.
I found it here: http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1208.html
You can read the entire article here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/10188.cfm
I always like reading Gary North. I don't always agree with him. But, he does offer thoughts and insights others miss.