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Citizen Lincoln (Hardcover)
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Citizen Lincoln (Hardcover)
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In modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's
antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a
passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others.
'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently. First, it portrays
Lincoln's animus against slavery as rooted in the highest ideals of
the American Revolution, which he saw as being corrupted in his own
time. Second, it analyses Lincoln's supposed 'passivity' as more
aptly defined as wise caution. Lincoln learned as a legislator,
first in Illinois and later in the United States Congress, that
bold initiatives often backfire and fail to fulfil original
intentions. In the state legislature, Lincoln supported a dramatic
internal-improvements project that collapsed in the midst of a
national depression. Lincoln also boldly opposed the Mexican War in
Congress, only to see his cause evaporate as soon as a peace treaty
was drafted with Mexico. In both instances, his timing was faulty.
He had rushed into taking rigid policy positions when greater
caution would have reaped better results. But in both instances, he
learned lessons that would hold him in good stead later. Lincoln as
president was wisely cautious, knowing that bold action could only
disrupt the delicate coalition that kept the Union cause moving
forward to victory. Harriet Beecher Stowe described Lincoln's
unique strength as "swaying to every influence, yielding on this
side and on that to popular needs, yet tenaciously and inflexibly
bound to carry its great end". She wisely added that no other kind
of strength could have seen the nation through the worst trial in
its history. In filling this role, Abraham Lincoln fulfilled that
which he had long regarded as his personal mission within the
larger context of his nation's providential destiny.
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