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

[Eva Elisabeth]

"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?