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

[Eva Elisabeth]

(08-22-2014 11:48 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Would it be rude of me to suggest that Mr. Lincoln wasn't taking orders from God or his wife? Since I consider him a prime pragmatist (as I have said before), he was reluctantly following his political instincts.

Thanks, Laurie, that was actually what I've been trying to express when I said I doubt he was merely acting as a will-less puppet on the strings. As I said before, even if he might have believed to act upon God's will, I think it was his own will, too. However, at all and so far I cast doubts on the reliability of the quote, and this was one point to argue why. Also this quote seems strange to me as I do NOT believe Lincoln was hesitant about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. So said Mary to Herndon: "Mr. Lincoln was mild in his manners, but he was a terribly firm man when he set his foot down. None of us, no man or woman, could rule him after he had once fully made up his mind."