For almost 2 weeks the Senate has been considering how it should proceed with one of the gravest issues of our time. History does not record any parallel situation. For alone among the civilized nations of the world. the United States is a nation peopled by immigrants drawn from all regions of the world. and their posterity. No other nation has confronted the problems born of the fact that a major portion of its population derives from imported slaves. No other nation has been plunged into a civil war of the dimensions which racked the United States less than a century ago. precipitated in major part by the issue of human slavery.
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