On March 4, 1865, just 36 days before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War he sought to avoid, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural, vowing to welcome those who engaged in the rebellion upon their return.

“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations,’’ the great Kentuckian proposed.

Last Saturday, millions of Americans took to the streets in what was termed a “No Kings’’ protest, a reaction to the heavy-handed, authoritaria

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