Monthly Archives: October 2013

J G Nicolay, January 1860, at the cusp of the Rebellion – – – – or is this about our age and times . . .

If the grand American experiment of free government is to be a failure, it will be quite as well we should know it now as at any future time.  If the caprice of one or half dozen #$%!$ is to be stronger than our Constitution, then, in God’s name, the sooner we make the discovery the better.