Victor Hanson Asks: Are We Slouching Towards Ford Sumter?
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The claim involves historical analysis and speculation about current events, with some uncertainties in drawing parallels between past and present. However, it is based on a well-documented historical event and primarily presents an emerging narrative rather than a deeply speculative or unclear mystery.
Victor Hanson Asks: Are We Slouching Towards Ford Sumter? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see their stain of slavery gone from the Union. Sim...