A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
, ’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.” Lowell, in his endorsement, was mainly concerned not with Lincoln’s personal qualities but with the redemptive possibilities of his new party. The Republicans, Lowell wrote, “know that true policy is gradual in its advances, that it is conditional and not absolute, that it must deal with facts and not
