1. best long-read to mark 150th anniversary of Lincoln's death? That would be Frederick Douglass's memorial speech: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/ …
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2. "He was preeminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men." Douglass on Lincoln.
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3. But: "The name of Abraham Lincoln was near and dear to our hearts in the darkest and most perilous hours of the Republic"
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4. "We were able to take a comprehensive view of Abraham Lincoln, and to make reasonable allowance for the circumstances of his position"
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5. "It mattered little to us what language he might employ on special occasions...[or] whether he was swift or slow in his movements"
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6. "it was enough for us that Abraham Lincoln was at the head of a great movement, & was in living and earnest sympathy with that movement"
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