"It is not our part to call words of sorrow and horror, while the heart of two worlds heaves with emotion. Even the sycophants who, year after year, and day by day, stick to their Sisyphus work of morally assassinating Abraham Lincoln, and the great Republic he headed, stand now aghast at this universal outburst of popular feeling, and rival with each other to strew rhetorical flowers on his open grave. They have now at last found out that he was a man, neither to be browbeaten by adversity, nor intoxicated by success, inflexibly pressing on to his great goal, never compromising it by blind haste, slowly maturing his steps, never retracing them, carried away by no surge of popular favour, disheartened by no slackening of the popular pulse, tempering stern acts by the gleams of a kind heart, illuminating scenes dark with passion by the smile of humour, doing his titanic work as humbly and homely as Heaven-born rulers do little things with the grandiloquence of pomp and state; in one word, one of the rare men who succeed in becoming great, without ceasing to be good. Such, indeed, was the modesty of this great and good man, that the world only discovered him a hero after he had fallen a martyr."
Communists have always adored Lincoln. They were among his first cheerleaders during his own lifetime and remain so to this day through the likes of James McPherson.
Don't forget Dr. Farber.
"It was Lincoln’s character – his ability, judgment, courage, and humanity – that brought the Union through the war with the Constitution intact. It was as much dumb luck as anything else that placed Lincoln in the White House in this critical time. To expect another Lincoln would be foolish. Nor should the legal system be designed on the assumption that all leaders will have his qualities. Even the wisest rulers must be restrained by law. But no matter how many checks and balances and protections we build into the system, we must keep in mind Hamilton’s admonition. “Sir, when you have divided and nicely balanced the departments of government; when you have strongly connected the virtue of your rulers with their interest; when, in short you have rendered your system as perfect as human forms can be – you must place confidence; you must give power.” In the end, all power can be abused, so we must take the risk of putting confidence in those who exercise power. This as much true of generals and justices as it is of presidents. We had best take care that, like Lincoln, they are worthy of our trust.”
--Lincoln’s Constitution” p. 200 by Daniel Farber
You've nothing to show for this false accusation against McPherson other than old transcripts from some interviews given to a socialist radio station. You give conservatives a bad name with these cheap, guilt by association, sleights of hand.
Grow up.
And Edgar Lee Masters?