#note mr

[leninsbody]

Contributing Op-Ed Writer: The Man the Founders Feared

Contributing Op-Ed Writer: The Man the Founders Feared

[ad_1]

In 1838, as a 28-year-old state legislator, Abraham Lincoln delivered an addressat the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill. The speech was given in the aftermath of the lynching of a mixed-race boatman and the burning of a black abolitionist newspaper editor. Lincoln warned that a “mobocratic spirit” and “wild and furious passions” posed a threat to republican institutions. He…

View On WordPress

[socialstudiesmidway-blog]

Contributing Op-Ed Writer: The Man the Founders Feared

Contributing Op-Ed Writer: The Man the Founders Feared

[ad_1] In 1838, as a 28-year-old state legislator, Abraham Lincoln delivered an address at the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill. The speech was given in the aftermath of the lynching of a mixed-race boatman and the burning of a black abolitionist newspaper editor. Lincoln warned that a “mobocratic spirit” and “wild and furious passions” posed a threat to republican institutions.…

View On WordPress