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[David Lockmiller]

(05-16-2024 10:27 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Just because Lincoln believed it to be the right decision doesn't place it in the guise of "irreparable harm." Nothing is irreparable unless it actually happens and sometimes not even then.

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Rob

I guess different people have different opinions:

Some thought Lincoln’s defeat a blessing in disguise. Richard W. Thompson believed that Lincoln’s failure to win the commissionership of the General Land Office was “most fortunate both for him and the country.” If he had been successful, Thompson speculated, he would have stayed on in Washington, “separated from the people of Illinois,” sinking “down into the grooves of a routine office, so that he would never have reached the eminence he afterwards achieved as a lawyer, or have become President of the United States."