...feuds be regarded as fossils of another epoch. 5. The old Union was based on the assumption that it was for the best interest of the people of the United States to be united as they were, each State faithfully performing to the Deople of other States all their...

...old feuds be regarded as fossils of another epoch. The old Union was based on the assumption that it was for the best interest of the people of the United States to be united as they were, each State faithfully performing to the people of other States all their...

...the North, the East, or the West alone. He viewed all public questions from the broad angle of what was for the best interest of the people of the United States. He was not a sectionalist. He was not a man who appealed to emotional reactions, to group or racial...