American History Month?
When I embarked on this task of publishing an article a day during "Black History Month," "Indian Territory Freedmen History Month," or better yet; "American History Month" I came across a newspaper article that posed three questions for the papers readers. I thought it had some lessons to teach us today one-hundred and sixty-one years later.
At the time the issue was slavery but we don't have the institution today but clearly the country is divided on a host of "issues" that put the Union in danger as it did in 1860, at the eve of the so called "Civil War."
Question number three seems to hold the answer: "Is it not the part of wisdom to look all the evils that now distract the union, square in the face, if we would sustain and perpetuate it; to call things by their right names, and cultivate friendly relations with our brethren...upon the only true principle-that of perfect equality?"
You decided?
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| Anti-Slavery Bugle Feb 11, 1860 p1c6 |
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