"Our One Common Country" author talk in Stratford, CT

[David Lockmiller]

(08-21-2014 05:49 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  "Lincoln only looked upwards, 'as to heaven' This was meant to inform Mary Todd Lincoln that President Abraham Lincoln was doing God’s work." - wow. Just an aside, David, if you study a bit physiology and psychology, you will discover that when you are visualizing images, scenes, or similar in your mind, the eyes/the view will move up. That even goes for atheists, and for more trivial situations in life than signing the EP.

However, would "I am a man under orders, I cannot do otherwise” not imply to you that he himself was opposed to what he was doing and just acting against his will as a puppet on God's or whoever's string? Would that make any sense to you?

Who were the orders from? Seward? Stanton? Somebody on the street? Lincoln wrote the original emancipation proclamation over time in the telegraph office. He asked Eckert to keep the papers in his drawer while he was working on them. Who do you think was giving him the orders to write the emancipation proclamation? I don't think it was McClellan. Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States.