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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
for the filthiest wit the world has known. If any would take refuge in the hope that the responsibilities of his high office raised Lincoln above these habits of indecency and godlessness, they are met by many authentic stories of his grossly-unseemly behavior as President, by the evidence of Lamon, the chosen associate of his lifetime, that his indulgence in gross stories was (page 480), restrained by no presence, and by no occasion, and by a letter (Lamon's Life, pages 487 to 504), of Nicolay, his senior private secretary throughout his administration, which states that Lincoln's attitude towards religion did not change after his entrance on the presidency. Want of space forbids further details, but it would be as easy to prove from precisely the same sort of evidence that Lincoln's character and conduct provoked the bitterest censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greely, Thad. Stevens, S
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
l vote by which Lincoln got his second term, fully verifies the above charge. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln, and General Benjamin F. Butler's autobiography (theot had countenance from the Governor (Seymour) and the Arch-Bishop (Hughs), as Nicolay and Hay elaborately describe in their Abraham Lincoln; and Gorham, in his late 1899, says: But Mr. Chase was never able to realize Mr. Lincoln's greatness. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln says (Vol. IX, page 389), about Chase: Even to compof active hostility and benevolent contempt. Yet none rate Chase higher than Nicolay and Hay do for talent, character and patriotism. McClure's Lincoln, etc. (puted the same guilt to Lincoln. McClure, in his Lincoln, etc. (page 202), and Nicolay and Hay, in their Abraham Lincoln (pages 441, 442 and 451), deplore that McCleharacter, ability and patriotism. See McClure's Lincoln, etc. (page 208), and Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln (Volume VI, page 189, et seq.) This letter will a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
l vote by which Lincoln got his second term, fully verifies the above charge. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln, and General Benjamin F. Butler's autobiography (theot had countenance from the Governor (Seymour) and the Arch-Bishop (Hughs), as Nicolay and Hay elaborately describe in their Abraham Lincoln; and Gorham, in his late 1899, says: But Mr. Chase was never able to realize Mr. Lincoln's greatness. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln says (Vol. IX, page 389), about Chase: Even to compof active hostility and benevolent contempt. Yet none rate Chase higher than Nicolay and Hay do for talent, character and patriotism. McClure's Lincoln, etc. (puted the same guilt to Lincoln. McClure, in his Lincoln, etc. (page 202), and Nicolay and Hay, in their Abraham Lincoln (pages 441, 442 and 451), deplore that McCleharacter, ability and patriotism. See McClure's Lincoln, etc. (page 208), and Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln (Volume VI, page 189, et seq.) This letter will a