[Non-Sequitur]

In support of such apprehensions, see Lincoln's initiative that thrust statehood on Nevada...

Please elaborate on how Lincoln 'thrust statehood' on Nevada. This should be good.

[lentulusgracchus]

Please elaborate on how Lincoln 'thrust statehood' on Nevada.

Any manual history of the West should do it. Lincoln initiated Nevada statehood, not the inhabitants of Nevada. As in, it was his idea, not theirs (they were only a few thousand strong, centered on the mining towns around Lake Tahoe). The documents petitioning Congress for admission were drawn at Lincoln's direction.

This should be good.

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