[William McKinley]

Seriously, McKinley did no such thing. He actually fixed many of the problems. Obviously, when you read it you skipped over what was at the very start:

The text viewable for this collection was generated from the page images by optical character recognition (OCR). No corrections have been applied.

You also didn't check the source link to see the newspaper from which the scanner did its work.

Thanks for the substantive contribution, though.

[Lael]

Thanks for the substantive contribution, though

First, let me thank you for your reply.

Until now I was unaware of a National Digital Archive at Cornell. I thought documents like this, which point out the broader Sectional differences leading up to the Civil War, would be banned in Ithaca as being non PC.

Abraham Lincoln was NOT the first Republican Presidential Nominee...General Fremont was in 1856, and caused nary a ripple in the National Discourse.

Four years later, the South splits from the Union before Lincoln is elected by formal vote of the Electoral College, and the World prepares to intervene...England and France on behalf of the Confederacy, and Russia on behalf of the Union.

Question...

How did it ALL go to H*LL in just FOUR years???

[liberallarry]

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