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Intro. "Should we expect some transatlantic military giant to step across the ocean and crush us in one blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (except our own) in their war chests, and Bonaparte as commander, could not have drunk the waters of the Ohio by force, or made a trail on the Blue Mountains, even in a thousand years. At what point, then, should we expect danger to approach? I answer: if it ever gets to us, it must arise among us." —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27th, 1838

America before the Civil War (1810-1860)

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