Abraham Lincoln is a classic biographical novel by James Russell Lowell. When Lincoln took office as President of the United States, the nation was fraught with problems, not the least of which was slavery and the danger of secession. This...
THERE have been many painful crises since the impatient vanity of South Carolina hurried ten prosperous Commonwealths into a crime whose assured retribution was to leave them either at the mercy of the nation they had wronged, or of the anarchy they had summoned but could not...