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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-10-2020
I am sorry, Bill, but it's not Sumner.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 10-10-2020
Who wrote in a letter the following words, to whom, from where, and when?
I can’t write any more today. I may see you before long — I don’t know — & so I won’t waste time by telling you what you must know as well as I do.
I believe Lincoln is well understood by the people. . . .
Bancroft’s address was a disgraceful exhibition of ignorance and prejudice. His effeminate nature shrinks instinctively from the contact of a great reality like Lincoln's character.
I consider Lincoln Republicanism incarnate — with all its faults and all its virtues. And in spite of some rudenesses, Republicanism is the sole hope of a sick world, so Lincoln with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ.
[End of letter]
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-10-2020
David, please let us finish one trivia question before beginning another. Thanks.
Hint #1: This person has been mentioned many times on this forum beginning in 2012.
Hint #2: The quote I used was reported by his sister.
Hint #3: I could probably have logically put my trivia question in another trivia thread.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Susan Higginbotham - 10-10-2020
John Wilkes Booth?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-10-2020
Kudos, Susan. Yes, these words were reported by John Wilkes Booth's sister, Asia.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 10-10-2020
(10-10-2020, 08:56 AM)RJNorton Wrote: David, please let us finish one trivia question before beginning another. Thanks.
I apologize, Roger. In the past, I have not participated very much in this thread. I will not make the same mistake again.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-10-2020
I knew it was a Southerner, but I thought Booth would have been too easy. Well-played, Roger!
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-10-2020
(10-10-2020, 10:45 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: I knew it was a Southerner, but I thought Booth would have been too easy. Well-played, Roger!
Best
Rob
Thanks, Rob. Indeed I did not think it would last as long as it did.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-10-2020
David, regarding your question...this was obviously written by a person who greatly admired Lincoln, so I shall guess Grant.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 10-10-2020
(10-10-2020, 01:51 PM)RJNorton Wrote: David, regarding your question...this was obviously written by a person who greatly admired Lincoln, so I shall guess Grant.
Grant is not the correct answer, Roger.
Hints 1 & 2: The letter was written in Paris, France (not Illinois) in September, 1866.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Susan Higginbotham - 10-10-2020
John Hay?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - David Lockmiller - 10-10-2020
(10-10-2020, 04:09 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote: John Hay?
Susan, John Hay is the correct answer.
John Hay to William H. Herndon.
Paris, September 5. 1866.
The letter reads in the beginning:
My Dear Mr. Herndon
I am so constantly busy that I have had no quiet day in which I write you what you desired in your letter several months ago. I have been ChargÄ d'Affaires nearly all summer, my day filled with official business and my night with social engagements equally imperative. Even now, I write because I am ashamed to wait any longer and have a few minutes disposable. I will answer your questions as you put them without any attempt at arrangement.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-11-2020
No googling, please.
What is the name of the person who noted the following about President Lincoln?
"He was not a born king of men but a child of the common people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort, and dogged perseverance. He slowly won his way to eminence and fame by doing the work that lay next to him – doing it with all his growing might – doing it as well as he could, and learning by his failure, when failure was encountered, how to do it better."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 10-12-2020
I'll try Walt Whitman (must be him one of these questions and the words do , I think, sound like him .... )
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020
Good guess, Michael, but it's not Whitman.
Hint #1: This man was well-known in the business he was in. If I mentioned the business, I think folks would get the answer right away.