When the knownothings get control. it will read all men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this. I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty." Infintely tender was his word from a White House balcony to a crowd on the White House lawn: "I have not willingly planted a thorn In any mans bosom." Or to a military Governor: "I shall do nothing through malice. what I deal with is too vast for malice." He wrote for Congress to read on December 1. 1862: "In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity." Like an ancient psalmist he warned Congress: "Fellow citizens. we cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us.
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