Edwin Stanton

[Eva Elisabeth]

I agree in all points, Laurie.

(12-17-2015 09:45 PM)maharba Wrote:  If I were Lincoln...I would have confronted Ed Stanton and said "What's this you been saying about me: gorilla, ape, giraffe?" And then taken him by the ear and tossed him out into the street.

"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Romans 12:19)

See, and that's one thing that makes me feel Lincoln (even though probably not a "technical Christian") cherished Christian values and was very serious and not just doing for "show" when "preaching" such as "let us judge not, that we be not judged...with malice toward none, with charity for all."

He lived this in many situations, and this is one trait where he makes a good role model IMO.

When Lincoln opposer Henry Winter Davis of Baltimore had failed re-election to Congress and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fox jubilated, Lincoln replied: "I cannot quite agree with you. You have more of the feeling of personal resentment than I. Perhaps I have too little of it; but I never thought it paid. A man has no time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me I never remember the past against him."