I don't agree. I think the words he wrote above are highly complimentary.
It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades
I don't agree. I think the words he wrote above are highly complimentary.
However complimentary they were intended, they aren't true. Lincoln did not push this country into a civil war. The slave power and secessionists did.
Perhaps he meant that it took courage to rouse the country and prosecute the war after it had begun. If so he chose the wrong words.