All we ask you to do is represent Lincoln honestly. Do that and you won't have any complaints. If somebody else tells of a truth you do not like that is no grounds to ask for their removal from a thread.
Here ya go:
"Pronouncing the death of the Old South, he [Henry Grady]lauded the New South of Union and freedom and progress. And he offered Lincoln as the vibrant symbol not alone of reconciliation but of American character. "Lincoln," he said, "comprehended within himself all the strength, and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of the republic." He was indeed, the first American, "the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, in whose ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in whose great soul the faults of both were lost."
--From "Lincoln in American Memory" by Merrill D. Peterson P. 46-48
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