Letter to the editor: Lincoln's Lyceum Address is enlightening

I’d like to encourage everyone who reads this to please look up on Google or YouTube the 1838 Lyceum Address by Abraham Lincoln. It was written 23 years before the Civil War. Similar to today, tensions were high, and there was much unease.

Lincoln warned the nation of immense harm that would prevail if we “the people” permit it. Very similar to today, mobs were what some thought was an adequate way of change.

After you have read or listened to the address, hopefully you’ll be convinced that this, the greatest nation on Earth, was built on the countless lives lost that helped create this experiment in democracy. And laws. And that this must remain a nation of laws. Not mob rule. Not a person’s rule. Not a family’s rule.

Harry Blank

Unity