Who Said This?

[David Lockmiller]

Marquis de Chambrun

I have his book somewhere. But I had to use the index to Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two (pages 795-98) to get the correct spelling of his name.

I could not find the quote in Burlingame's text but I did find the following entry:

Some black servants aboard the River Queen wished to accompany the presidential party [to Petersburg]. Chambrun reported that Lincoln, who "was blinded by no prejudices against race or color" and who "had not what can be termed false dignity," invited them to sit with him and his companions. (Chambrun, "Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln," Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1893: 28.)