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During the Civil War both sides claimed that America's destiny were rightfully their own.

Lincoln opposed Southern sectionalism, anti-immigrant nativism, and the imperialism of Manifest Destiny as both unjust and unreasonable.

He believed each of these disordered forms of love threatened the inseparable moral and fraternal bonds of liberty and Union that he sought to perpetuate through a patriotic love of country guided by wisdom and critical self-awareness.

Lincoln's " Eulogy to Henry Clay ", June 6, 1852 provides the most cogent expression of his reflective patriotism.

Henry Beecher Stowe identified the South as only doing " the Devil's work " while the North was left " to do the work of God ".

Alternatively, men like Benjamin Morgan Palmer, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, were championing the destiny God had made for the Confederate States.

Palmer delivered a sermon in New Orleans that described the God's mission was inseparable from the South's.