{"id":3717,"date":"2011-03-07T01:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2011-03-08T07:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:27:28","slug":"civil-war-anniversary-news-roundup-february-27-march-5-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/03\/07\/civil-war-anniversary-news-roundup-february-27-march-5-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Anniversary News Roundup – February 27-March 5, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>News coverage of Civil War events continued to run high this past week as the nation remembers the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. The main event this week in history was Abraham Lincoln\u2019s inauguration as president on March 4, 1861<\/a>.<\/p>\n

William C. Kashatus of the Philadelphia Inquirer <\/em>provided a thoughtful overview<\/a> of Lincoln\u2019s first inaugural<\/a> entitled \u201cSpeech that Launched the Lincoln Presidency.\u201d The address, which was just 35 minutes, reflected the \u201cbalanced rhetoric of a shrewd politician,\u201d according to Kashatus. Although Lincoln has become known as the \u201cGreat Emancipator,\u201d his primary goal was to ensure that the Union was perpetual and vowed not to \u201cinterfere with slavery in the Sates where it existed.\u201d Lincoln was both \u201cfirm and compassionate\u201d in his first speech as president, and ended with an impassioned plea to his \u201cdissatisfied fellow countrymen:\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angles of our nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Jackson of the USA Today<\/em> reported on a proclamation<\/a> by President Obama in honor of Lincoln\u2019s first inaugural. The President said that the \u201crugged rail-splitter\u201d and \u201chumble lawyer\u201d helped heal the bloody divisions of Civil War through \u201csimple eloquence and humble leadership marked by profound wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Oval,\u201d the USA Today\u2019s<\/em> project tracking the Obama presidency, also offered a concise <\/a>take on the first inauguration.<\/p>\n

Patrick Teegarden, contributing to the Colorado Statesman\u2019s <\/em>sesquicentennial column<\/a>, wrote an article<\/a> describing how \u201cLincoln\u2019s Inaugural Addresses spearheaded our journey towards equality and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug Kendall, Founder and President of the Constitutional Accountability Center<\/a>, authored an interesting article<\/a> entitled \u201cRemembering the Civil War in the Tea Party Age.\u201d As he discusses the debate about whether the Confederacy fought mainly over slavery or states\u2019 rights, he points out that the Tea Party-infused politicians have been making arguments in favor of nullification and secession, as if the Confederacy had prevailed on its\u2019 states rights\u2019 platform. He says that we should celebrate the Constitution of our time, not \u201cyearn for days long past when our Constitution, and our Union, were far less perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Glass of Politico<\/em> provided a brief article<\/a> commemorating Lincoln\u2019s second inaugural address. Calling it one of Lincoln\u2019s most powerful speeches, the magnanimous address was made even more powerful by his assassination, which occurred little more than a month after he delivered it.<\/p>\n

In related news, Robert Redford is the director of The Conspirator<\/a> <\/em>(pictured above), a new movie about the plot to assassinate Lincoln to be released on April 15<\/a>, 2011.<\/p>\n

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