The Election of 1856 Redo

Instead of writing an entire new article, I want to recycle one I wrote back in January of 2019 but make some minor changes. Back then I was writing about the upcoming election and comparing it to the 1856 election. With the major crisis we are seeing right now, you can decide if my earlier post was prophetic. The 1850s were a decade in turmoil, much like our own. Though slavery had been a major…