'We're all Americans'
Lawn signs sprout in a tense election; coping with the Civil War echoes
In “The Demon of Unrest,” Erik Larson quotes a letter sent early in 1861 by James Hammond, the secessionist former US senator from South Carolina, to a friend from New York who opposed slavery. So strong were Hammond’s sentiments that Larson calls it “a miracle” that his letter “did not ignite the stationery upon which it was written.”
The former senato…
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