The night is departing

Sound familiar? “The night is departing, and the roseate and propitious dawn now breaking upon us promises a long day of peace and prosperity for our country. To secure this, all we of the North have to do is to permit our southern neighbors to manage their own domestic affairs, as they permit us to manage ours.” Just a few words in James Buchanan’s inaugural speech of 1857 could be substituted, ‘conservative’ for North and ‘liberal’ for southern because beginning in 2013 America is a seriously divided nation. I’m sure Pres. Obama will cover the ‘dawn’ and ‘promises’ in his acceptance speech for America’s transformed future.