‘Yankee’
A ‘Yankee’ is a term used both for a native or citizen of the United States or of the New England US States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The best theory for the origin of this word is that it comes from the Dutch Janke.Originally, about 1775, the British soldiers used it as a slang term of mockery.
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
On the brink of Civil War President Lincoln's Inaugural Address attempts to avoid the inevitable.
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow country men, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of Civil War. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."
