All elections are important, but few live up to the hype of being truly historic.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2D2ZMDq

I would rank 1860 as No. 1: That year’s campaign contributed to a disintegration of the national fabric, and the aftermath included the astonishingly bloody Civil War, the abolition of slavery and the construction of a much stronger national state.

↩︎ The Washington Post

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