With some justice, friends criticized this florid address as “highly sophomoric in character” and a prime example of “ ‘spread eagle’ and vapid oratory.” It illustrated Albert T. Bledsoe’s contention that Lincoln, as a young man, was “most wofully given to sesquipedalian words, or, in Western phrase, highfalutin bombast.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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