Then the vice predident becomes president
The nationalism of the XIX century is clearly depicted in the speech of Abraham Lincoln, addressed in 1858, to the voters of Chicago, before he was elected president. He claimed for a nation where all individuals were equal as if they all were the same blood of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence. The vision of a nation consisted of a moral structure based on ethical beliefs of freedom and equality. Even though these ideas clearly contrasted with the social context of the time.
