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“Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent,” he wrote about the sixteenth president, “but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
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