Life, 1918-06-27 · page 34 of 37
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The main article "Lincoln Not for Liberty?" defends Lincoln against accusations that he betrayed Southern liberty. The author argues the South fought for "liberty" during the Civil War, but misunderstood that "Liberty and Union" are inseparable—you cannot have true liberty without union. The piece makes a sharp contemporary analogy: it compares Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the Russian Bolsheviks and Kaiser Bill, suggesting that Southern secession (like current Russian fragmentation and German autocracy) would have led to chaos and autocratic domination. The author suggests that without Lincoln's preservation of the Union, America would have fractured into "a dozen or two, or even three dozen, little republics." This June 1918 article uses the Civil War as a lens to argue that national unity—not fragmentation—protects liberty. It's essentially pro-Union, anti-secession propaganda, aimed at readers during World War I. The cartoons and advertisements are separate commercial content.
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