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Fifteen years after the Lincoln-Stone protest, Lincoln criticized abolitionists who, like Garrison, marched beneath the banner inscribed “No Union with Slaveholders.” In a eulogy on Henry Clay, Lincoln criticized Garrisonians: “Those who would shiver into fragments the Union of these States; tear to tatters its now venerated constitution; and even burn the last copy of the Bible, rather than slavery should continue a single hour, … have received, and are receiving their just execration.” He praised more moderate opponents of slavery, like Clay, and condemned those proslavery apologists who “are beginning to assail and to ridicule” the Declaration of Independence.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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When Governor Hicks of Maryland suggested that Lord Lyons, Great Britain’s minister to the United States, be asked to mediate the dispute between the North and the South, Seward replied with a letter that may have been drafted by Lincoln. He explained that the troops would be used merely to defend Washington. Alluding to the War of 1812, he added that he “cannot but remember that there has been a time in the history of our country when a general of the American Union, with forces designed for the defense of its capital, was not unwelcome anywhere in the State of Maryland, and certainly not at Annapolis.” Firmly he insisted that “no domestic contention whatever that may arise among the parties of this republic ought in any case to be referred to any foreign arbitrament, least of all to the arbitrament of a European monarchy.” Many Northerners found this response excessively timid and insisted that Marylanders had to be warned that they must either cooperate or be crushed. A Hartford banker wanted to inform Seward that the letter “raised here one universal shout of execration.” Such “damned … wishy washy stuff does not ‘go down’ with us, not by a great deal. Why didn’t he say, ‘We propose to go through Baltimore & will lay your infernal city in ashes if a gun is fired.’ That’s the kind of talk the people want & they will back it up.” New Yorkers were also indignant; one said the letter “absolutely disgusts everybody; it is begging, mean, and truckling, instead of being as it should have been, firm, decisive and imperative.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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