https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t What the U.S.had to say about Lincoln: before, during, and after his presidential term and why he was both admired and observed as one of America's greatest. en-us 2018-12-05 19:50:53 UTC 2026-02-18 18:16:37 UTC hello@padlet.com amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311572689 “...he rose to prominence on the basis of oratory; not a record of public service” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 64).]]> 2018-12-05 19:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311572689 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573375 “Stand with anybody that stands right.” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 69)]]> 2018-12-05 19:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573375 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573592 “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).]]> 2018-12-05 19:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573592 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573766 “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).]]> 2018-12-05 19:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311573766 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574352 “Lincoln viewed all of American history as a struggle -- one that the Founders foresaw and made contingencies for” (Lincoln’s Melancholy, pg. 138).]]> 2018-12-05 19:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574352 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574510 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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574510 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574638 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).]]> 2018-12-05 20:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574638 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574757 “...Americans recognized that Lincoln’s experience during the war mirrored their own” (The Fiery Trial, pg. 333)]]> 2018-12-05 20:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311574757 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311575234 “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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311575234 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311575619 “...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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311575619 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311577027 “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).

]]> 2018-12-05 20:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311577027 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311577523 “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) ]]> 2018-12-05 20:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311577523 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311592524 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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311592524 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311593672 “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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311593672 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311595046 “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)]]> 2018-12-05 20:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311595046 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311627061 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)]]> 2018-12-05 22:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311627061 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664673 2018-12-06 03:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664673 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664794 2018-12-06 03:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664794 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664836 2018-12-06 03:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664836 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664901 2018-12-06 03:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311664901 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311665998 2018-12-06 03:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311665998 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666247 2018-12-06 03:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666247 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666313 2018-12-06 03:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666313 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666370 2018-12-06 03:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311666370 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311667101 2018-12-06 03:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311667101 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668019 2018-12-06 03:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668019 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668062 2018-12-06 03:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668062 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668106 2018-12-06 03:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668106 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668151 2018-12-06 03:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668151 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668184 2018-12-06 03:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311668184 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311682761 "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)]]> 2018-12-06 05:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311682761 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311683133 "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)]]> 2018-12-06 05:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311683133 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311928589 “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)]]> 2018-12-06 17:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311928589 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311931388 “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)]]> 2018-12-06 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311931388 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311934036 “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)]]> 2018-12-06 17:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311934036 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311936342 “...a man so tender his feelings and sympathies that all his errors were on the side of mercy” (Anonymous, Daily State Journal, 1865)]]> 2018-12-06 17:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311936342 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311937288 “All but traitors mourn him as a personal friend” (Anonymous, Daily State Journal, 1865)]]> 2018-12-06 17:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311937288 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311938506 “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)]]> 2018-12-06 17:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311938506 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311939333 “He was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea...” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1962)]]> 2018-12-06 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311939333 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311940379 “John Brown was the first Martyr of this rebellion—Abraham Lincoln the last” (C. Chances Burr, The Old Guard, 1865)]]> 2018-12-06 17:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/311940379 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312001229 "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).  ]]> 2018-12-06 19:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312001229 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312002463 "...patriotic devotion to the interest of his own race" (Frederick Douglass, Selected Speeches and Writings, 1906).]]> 2018-12-06 19:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312002463 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312003632 "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).]]> 2018-12-06 19:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312003632 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312005716 2018-12-06 19:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312005716 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312005958 2018-12-06 19:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312005958 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312006235 2018-12-06 19:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312006235 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312006879 2018-12-06 19:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/312006879 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/314500255 "It is not supposed by anyone, we believe, that Mr. Lincoln is possesses of much polish in manners or conversation" (Anonymous, Chicago Times, 1863).]]> 2018-12-13 23:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/314500255 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/314500516 "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)]]> 2018-12-13 23:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/314500516 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026105 2018-12-16 23:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026105 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026168 2018-12-16 23:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026168 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026226 2018-12-16 23:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315026226 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315027278 2018-12-16 23:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315027278 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315027924 2018-12-17 00:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315027924 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315028185 2018-12-17 00:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315028185 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315029288 2018-12-17 00:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315029288 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315030962 2018-12-17 00:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315030962 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315031273 2018-12-17 00:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315031273 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315031815 2018-12-17 00:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315031815 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032136 2018-12-17 00:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032136 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032184 2018-12-17 00:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032184 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032229 2018-12-17 00:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032229 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032336 2018-12-17 00:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032336 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032470 “Foreign assessments have been equally varied in what they have chaises to celebrate or revile” (The Global Lincoln, 2011).]]> 2018-12-17 00:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315032470 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315033069 2018-12-17 01:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315033069 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315033086 2018-12-17 01:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315033086 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315034430 2018-12-17 01:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315034430 amanidanelle https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315036832 2018-12-17 01:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/amanidanelle/fiacrba8z8t/wish/315036832