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“Abraham Lincoln is. In the strictest sense a man of the working class. All his advantages and abilities are those of a man of the working classes; all his disadvantages and disabilities are those of a man of the working classes; and his position now at the head of one of the most powerful nations of the earth is a sign to all who live by labor that their day is coming” (Harriet  Beecher Stowe, Littell’s Living Age, 1864)

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“Foreign assessments have been equally varied in what they have chaises to celebrate or revile” (The Global Lincoln, 2011).

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“Lincoln’s expression of kind regard for southerners and his willingness to adhere fully and without reservations to the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery distinguished him from more radical northerners” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 69).

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"The proclamation of the President of the United States will be read with interest by all of our people, and all true lovers of freedom, irrespective of clime or caste, will give three hearty cheers for Abraham Lincoln , President of the United States of America. Now if every man would work and throw down prejudice, the country would soon be redeemed and restored back as it was in the days of the Puritan fathers" (THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER, 1862)

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Lincoln’s greatness owes considerably to his internal growth. But what primarily accounted for his success -- and his vital relevance -- was not his own growth to a place where he could speak to the country’s needs, but the country’s regression to the place where Lincoln is needed” (Lincoln’s Melancholy, pg. 147).

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"President Lincoln has been guilty of usurpations, which if the dictatorial powers assumed were not used for his protection, would certainly subject him to impeachment and condign punishment" (Anonymous, New York Daily News, 1863)

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"It is not supposed by anyone, we believe, that Mr. Lincoln is possesses of much polish in manners or conversation" (Anonymous, Chicago Times, 1863).

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"...patriotic devotion to the interest of his own race" (Frederick Douglass, Selected Speeches and Writings, 1906).

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"Mr. Lincoln had not a hopeful temperament, and, though he looked at the bright side of things, was always prepared for disaster and defeat" (Noah Brooks, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1865).

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“John Brown was the first Martyr of this rebellion—Abraham Lincoln the last” (C. Chances Burr, The Old Guard, 1865)

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“He was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea...” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1962)

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"Lincoln himself was constructed on an entirely different foundation. HIs base was plain common-sense, direct statement, and the inflexibility of logic. In physical make-up he was cold-- at least not magnetic-- and made no effort to dazzle people by his bearing. He cared nothing for a following..." (William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln, 1889).

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“He was essentially a mixed product of the agricultural, forensic, frontier life of this continent—as indigenous to our soil as the cranberry crop, and as American in his fibre as the granite foundations of the Appalachian range” (Anonymous, New York Herald, 1865)

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“All but traitors mourn him as a personal friend” (Anonymous, Daily State Journal, 1865)

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“...a man so tender his feelings and sympathies that all his errors were on the side of mercy” (Anonymous, Daily State Journal, 1865)

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“Bully for you,” cried Satan, enraptured, “you are the smartest pupil I ever had! I am afraid people will find you out after a while, though” (Anonymous, Abraham Africanus, 1864)

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"His memory is eternal; his example of priceless treasurer of our prosperity, the blended devotion of two races is freedom constitutes the shore pledge of their lasting remembrance of his full philanthropy, patriotism and martyrdom. "Men may come in men may go," but the name of the immortal Lincoln, the great Emancipator of the Afro-American is this is native land, and "go on forever" in the hearts of mankind" (The Christian Recorder, 1894)

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“Mr. Lincoln’s disclaimer of any power, right or inclination to interfere with slavery in the States, does not amount to more than a broken shoe-string! They knew it all before, and while they do not accept it as a satisfaction, they do look upon such declarations as the evidence of cowardly baseness, upon which they may safely presume“ (The Christian Recorder)

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Other people claim to be fighting for an idea, when it is for a matter of square feet of land. Lincoln, even when he is motivated by an idea, talks about square feet. (Karl Marx, Die Presse, 1862)

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“His avoidance of extremes Has not been the result of ambition which measures words or regulates acts, but the natural consequence of an equable nature and in mental constitution that is never off its balance” (Anonymous, New York Tribune, 1860)

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“Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electricity as well” (Anonymous, Chicago Press and Tribune, 1858)

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On his loss to Stephen Douglas: “He has created a national reputation that is both envied and deserved; and though he should hereafter fill no official station, he has done in the cause of Truth and Justice, what will always entitle him to the gratitude of his party and to th admiration of all who respect high moral qualities and the keen, comprehensive , and sound intellectual gifts that he has displayed” (Anonymous, Chicago Press Tribune, 1858, pg. 377)

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“Q. What is the President?
A. A general agent for negroes.”

“Q. What is an army?
A. A provost guard to arrest white men and set negroes free.”

"Q. Who is the wisest man?
A. Abraham Lincoln.”

(Anonymous, Southern Illustrated News, 1863)

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“...not a syllable of bitterness toward the enemies of his own country, to the traitors at home, or ghius personal relivers, passed his lips” (Anonymous, pg. 318)

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“Although Lincoln does not possess the grandiloquence of historical action, as an average man of the people he has its humor” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, pg. 388)

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Not only did he rarely let on about any vexation of disappointment, but in exchanges between him and his colleagues, he is often the one bucking them up, trying to lift their spirits, encouraging them that their efforts would have eventual reward” (Lincoln’s Melancholy, pg. 147)

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“...Americans recognized that Lincoln’s experience during the war mirrored their own” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 333)

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“Lincoln would succeed, by articulating a durable idea of free society and exposing fallacies in which many of his contemporaries tried to find comfort” (Lincoln’s Melancholy, pg. 136).

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“Lincoln viewed all of American history as a struggle -- one that the Founders foresaw and made contingencies for” (Lincoln’s Melancholy, pg. 138).

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“It shows the lofty spirit that fired the heart of him whose name is enrolled in the noble army of martyrs for Liberty. Throughout the entire quotation there breathes the sad spirit of prophecy of his own fate, which his intimate associates now remembered weighed constantly on his spirits, like the strains of saddest music amid the joyous anthems of victory” (The Christian Recorder, 1865).

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“Stand with anybody that stands right.” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 69)

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“...he rose to prominence on the basis of oratory; not a record of public service” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 64).