To: Solon who wrote (32282 ) 12/29/2012 11:11:13 PM From: 2MAR$ 1 Recommendation Respond to A little sanity & break from morons from Mark Twain blogging on Abe Lincoln back in 1907, Sam Clemmons was also a good friend & saved the later president Grant who fell financially into destitution but thats another story. On Abraham Lincoln By History Blog Project It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to “bind up the Nation’s wounds.”
