And yet the Republic survived, by the grace of of God. Indeed, He set Abraham Lincoln in authority over this nation during the Civil War for such a time as that. What could have been more God-inspired than Lincoln’s second inaugural address, which famously concluded:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Well, the Declaration of Independence. Start with that.
“When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another . . .”