Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . o wait, for the Tribune reportersaid of the neighborhood: It is low, lumberyi muddy, piggytenement-housey, noisy; in short, nasty. With an attraction so meager thereporter wondered why a crowd so big—there were 6000 on hand when thetrain arrived—had come to this out-of-the-way spot His guess was that they wanted tohonor the man who was their choicetheir hope, their reliance, even thoughthey would get only a fleeting glimpseof him. • * * * It was not a time for kudos, homageand hosannahs. This man was neither a hero nor aconqueror. He was to be the
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . o wait, for the Tribune reportersaid of the neighborhood: It is low, lumberyi muddy, piggytenement-housey, noisy; in short, nasty. With an attraction so meager thereporter wondered why a crowd so big—there were 6000 on hand when thetrain arrived—had come to this out-of-the-way spot His guess was that they wanted tohonor the man who was their choicetheir hope, their reliance, even thoughthey would get only a fleeting glimpseof him. • * * * It was not a time for kudos, homageand hosannahs. This man was neither a hero nor aconqueror. He was to be their leaderin a war that was momentarily immi-nent, a war they did not want andabout which he had made no promises,either to stop it, or to begin it. Regardless of their feelings, he wasthe bearer of their hopes, and they hadan overwhelming curiosity to see him. Already six states had seceded!bouth Carolina was first to leave andwhile a stunned Washington stoodhelplessly by, Mississippi, Florida, Ala-bama, Georgia and Louisiana also with-. WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE—Lincoln would have been the last to ob-ject to this bronze statue of Jeff Davis,now, in Statuary Hall of a reunited na-tions capitol. drew and seized forts and arsenals andother Federal property. • • • On the very day that Lincoln ar-rived in New York, the Tribune carrieda dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., re-porting the inauguration of JeffersonDavis as the president of the Provi-sional Government of the ConfederateStates of America. There were rumors that Washingtonwould be seized by Virginia mobs; thatNorthern legislators were sending theirfamilies home; that Lincolns life wasin danger. This is a time of sad humiliationfor the country . . wrote GeorgeTempleton Strong, the patrician diaristof the period. We are , divided,disgraced people, unable to maintainour national existence. We are impo-tent even to assert our national tempted to emigrate, to became anaturalized British subject . . Its
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