Posted on 01/31/2009 12:56:10 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
ROCHESTER, NY - Seated by a window in the Illinois state Capitol in 1860, a beardless Abraham Lincoln held still 25 seconds for a classic campaign portrait of the soon-to-be president. It was undoubtedly a personal favorite.
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Countdown until the Lincoln haters arrive (I’m not one).
Abraham Lincoln
Amen.
>>Countdown until the Lincoln haters arrive (I’m not one).<<
It would certainly be fair to say I am not as fond of his legacy as others seem to be since I feel the War of Northern Aggression violated the very principle of self determination on which the American revolution was based.
But I can admire certain aspects. As a relative said, at least Lincoln put 30,000 northern Democrats in prison without trials, lawyers, charges or due process... that’s something.
I also think that he would never get elected in modern times - based solely on his appearance.
About getting elected with his appearance, I have a hunch you just may be correct on that. It's unfortunate, isn't it?
Thank you for your comments. I’m glad you appreciate the picture. It’s too bad we don’t have a powerful Republican leader like Lincoln nowadays. He had the kind of brains and guts that are missing in today’s Republican leaders.
I understand that Lincoln also had a rather unfortunate speaking voice.
Lincoln, Mercury, Ford...They’re all the same.
IIRC, I read this in Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln.
But Lincoln had a remarkable command of the language; in a day when orators prided themselves on how long they could go on speaking, he said more in a couple of minutes than the others in as many hours.
He was a very strange-looking man indeed. If that face was on television every day, forget about ever being elected. It’s very unfortunate. The Oprah crowd likes slick, shiny folks who have not a thought in their pretty little heads except those with which they’ve been programmed by Marxists not as attractive.
I'm not a Lincoln hater. In fact, I'm one of the more moderate members of FR. So I can appreciate Lincoln's great achievements while also deploring the worst. As a classical liberal like the Founders (the very antithesis of today's very illiberal "liberals"), I vehemently disagree with Lincoln's decision to maintain the union by force. The states created the federal compact and, in my view, had every right to dissolve or withdraw from it.
The nation Lincoln was elected to serve in 1960 was a vastly different nation from the one he bequeathed to posterity by the time of his death in 1864. In some respects, such as ending slavery, the changes wrought by Lincoln have been highly beneficial. In many other respects, they have not and, in fact, have led inexorably to the drastically bloated, overreaching federal monstrosity we have today.
Anyway, I love history and am delighted to see this photograph come to light.
LONG-LOST ABE [ HISTORIC PHOTO’S AMAZING COMEBACK]
New York Post | January 31 2009 | BEN DOBBIN, AP
Posted on 01/31/2009 12:25:33 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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