Kudos, Gene. Indeed it was Frederick Douglass. Later that day he went to the White House, and he had difficulties entering until Abraham Lincoln came upon the scene.
I came across the quote while reading Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Achorn.
(08-11-2020, 04:05 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Kudos, Gene. Indeed it was Frederick Douglass. Later that day he went to the White House, and he had difficulties entering until Abraham Lincoln came upon the scene.
I came across the quote while reading Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Achorn.
Roger,
Attached is a document for Lincoln's 2nd inauguration I saved while researching our Frederick Douglas conversation in another thread.
In an 1886 interview with Jesse W. Weik, Dennis Hanks said:
"They told me the Lincolns had a baby at thur house, and so I jest run all the way down that. I guess I was on hand purty early, fur I rickolect when I held the little feller in my arms his mother said, 'Be keerful with him, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen.' I sort o' swung him back and forth; a little to peart, I reckon, fur with the talkin' and the shakin' he soon begun to cry and then I handed him over to my Aunt Polly who was standin' close by. 'Aunt,' sez I, 'take him; he'll never come to much,' fur I'll tell you he wuz the puniest, cryin'est little youngster I ever saw."
"Although the saying, "Every man has two countries – his own and France," has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson many times, this exact wording has never been found in his writings. It has been suggested that the saying may be a paraphrase of this passage from Jefferson's Autobiography:
[S]o ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?—certainly in my own. where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.—Which would be your second choice?—France.
The specific quotation, "Every man has two countries – his own and France," however, has been traced back to Henri de Bornier's play, La Fille de Roland (1875), in which Charlemagne utters the line, "Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France."
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
Thanks, Eva.
I didn't know it either until 3 days ago. Saw it in Collapse of the Third Republic by William Shirer (big book) I've started reading.
Hence my surprise when Bill it got within about 5 minutes.
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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