Is about immigration. And lets face it, it is a fraught issue, a provocative issue, and unresolved issue then and now. On then, and focus see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this hot topic. With december 6, after his a month reelection as president. Its the day Abraham Lincoln and as fate would have it his final message to congress. It is known today as the state of the union. By the tradition of the lincoln era they were not or rated in person, they were sent Via White House staff and read aloud by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it, so we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. That one passage, particularly, caught the that day. Attention and keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half years by this time, and hundreds of th
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Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye
Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye
Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye