. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. Washington later in the year tookup the so-called rebel strains and made them too commonto be regarded any longer as exclusively rebel envenomed and irritated people were at a loss forslanders vile enough, and epithets unsavory enough, to 236 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. express their detestation of Lincoln and all that apper-tained to him. To this day, undoubtedly, many honestand worthy people entertain false notions of Lincoln, hisfamily, his antecedents, and his conduct in office, derivedfrom the malicious gossip of those who ho
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. Washington later in the year tookup the so-called rebel strains and made them too commonto be regarded any longer as exclusively rebel envenomed and irritated people were at a loss forslanders vile enough, and epithets unsavory enough, to 236 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. express their detestation of Lincoln and all that apper-tained to him. To this day, undoubtedly, many honestand worthy people entertain false notions of Lincoln, hisfamily, his antecedents, and his conduct in office, derivedfrom the malicious gossip of those who hoped, for a time,that he would be sent back to Illinois dead or alive, andthat President Davis would come and take his this was of short duration. The truth of historysooner or later is vindicated. But it is worth while toput on record, as a faithful chronicle of the time, the factthat no man was more thoroughly misunderstood or morebitterly maligned than was Abraham Lincoln when, on thebrink of civil war, he took up the reins of
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