The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 20, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
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Some time ago I was given a small
pamphlet to read, called "The Real
Lincoln" (from which all my quotations
are made) by Charles Minos
and Lyon G. Tyke. It was edited by
J. Kate Mason Rowland, of Richmond,
and I presume the authors were also
Virginians. The facts compiled were
seemingly most carefully gathered,
and every statement was painstaking{
ly verified and chapter and verse given
in every instance so that those
who doubt the evidence of Lincoln's
short-comings will have to refute the
testimony of those who were nearest
to him,1 and those who were well
known to the world as Republicans
of the deepest dye and in perfect ac1
cord with him, political!#', if not so?
cially. In the back of this little
pamphlet there is an appendix, which
, includes the names of the most promfl*
. inent men of that time with short
sketches of each, who are quoted in
those pages and a partial list of them
will prove exclusive evidence that
A
from their prominence, political proc|
livitiea and intimate association with
Lincoln, none were more fitted tc
V.j - *
testify as to the character of the real
i man. I specially ask you to note that
not one Southern authority is quoted
in all the evidence against the chars'
acter of this man. This goes to prove
his unfitness for the hero worship
which is lavished on him above Mak
soli and Dixon line in greater degree
^ each year that passes.
Criticised by Cabinet,
v Some of his critics who are quoted
are hie cabinet ministers, Seward
Chase and Stanton. The latter was
his secretary of war and one of his
bitterest critics. He often spoke ot
B B Lincoln with withering sneers and
HBP* he wrote many letters to President
Buchanan since published in Carter's
life of Buchanan in which he not
1* only spoke of Lincoln with the utmost
contempt but criticised his "painful
imbecility" and the "venality and corruption
of the-government," and it is
an open secret that he advised the
?A?Al,,MAnovi7 AwarthrAW nf thp T.1TI
rOTUlWl'lUuai J uivtimu" vi v?
coin government, to be repiaced by
McCellan as dictator. These published
letters of Stanton are.-by no means
[X the worst written; some of them were
' so violent in their expressions against
i Lincoln that they were charitably
withheld from the pnblic. Stanton
I m summed up Lincoln on one occasion
as "a low, cunning clown." Ida Tarbell,
one of Lincoln's greatest admirers,
say8 "Chase was never able
to-realize his greatness" and was one
of the most bitter, contemptuous and
persistent of all Lincoln's critics.
* Seward treated him with condescension
and superiority, but was
not as open and bitter in his criticisms
as the other two cabinet.minis
jters; he, however, accused the presi/
dent of a cunning that amounted to
gfenius.
Wendell Phillips says of Lincoln:
"Who is this huckster in politics?"
historians record that he was
'
/ '--'-.v most severe in his censures. Thad'
deus Stevens was an unmerciful cri/
\ and Ida Tarbell calls Charles
Sumner, Ben Wade and other contemporaneous
Republicans, who were
; powers in the political world, "mar:
licious foes of Lincoln," and further
makes the remarkable concession thai
about all the prominent leaders ol
that day were actively opposed tc
him and mentions Horace Greeley as
their chief. The latter criticised the
; i'V '
president boldly and bitterly and
tried most faithfully to accomplish
his overthrow in his struggle for reelection
in 1864. Not even Lincoln's
*lv
v tragic death abated for a day Greeley's
hatred of him. The authors
of "The Real Lincoln" call attentior
to the fact at this juncture that "Lin'j*
c ^ coin's first four years' term was nearv
<ly'over, so that all this bitter cen
stare from his associates was based
. on full knowledge of his character."
Not a Religious Man.
j * As to Lincoln's religion, one his
torian (Holland) says that in Spring
field, 111., his home town, 20 out o
23 ministers of different denomina
. tions of Christians, and a large ma
V, * jority of the prominent members o
fP their churches cast their votes
against him for president because he
was not a religious man, and the
? > pious utterances in his farewell address
to his fellow citizens were
thought to be "weak and hypocritical!'
and were tossed about as a joke
closing words of the emancipa**on
Proc^ama^on were added at the
suggestion of Secretary Chase. Lin
coin was never known to make an>
. profession of religion and it was said
^ . when he went to church at all "he
went to mock and came away to mimic."
He wrote a little book trvins
- * ^ to disprove the Bible and the divinity
Z of Christ, and it was burned with
fWr out his consent by friends whc
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, LINCOLN"
hn Kennedy chapter, Camden
[ j thought it might ruin his political
i I career. He was accused of being an
?! infidel, if not an aetheist, and he
ti never denied it. and said he could
i and would prove all he had written
,! and would die before he would de>
ny it. A letter written by his wife
ij ''confirms the above testimony as to
, his attitude of hostility toward re jligion."
j The vulgarity of Lincoln's jokes
i: and stories is well known and one of
ij his historians says he was the foulest
i j mouthed raconteur in the country.
j N
;j Don Piatt says none of his stories
11 would hear printing, and Lamon, the
; i historian, adds that he was not re !
strained by any company or occasion.
'When he went to Gettysburg battles
j field to make his celebrated address
i I he asked for and had sung a ribald
: song. "Was ever so sublime a thing
inhered in by the ridiculous?" asked
I Rhodes. He wrote a satire, called
II "The First Chronicle of Reuben," al;
i so some verses which Lincoln him
self circulated, and which Lamon
i said were too indecent to be tran<
scribed to his book. Lamon was his
1
[ close friend and testified that not
; even the high position of president
I changed him in any way. His clown
ishness and lack of dignity was pro>
vorhini and somft of us can remem
? ber the silly joke he perpetrated
when the Marquis of Hartingtoif, a
> | distinguished Frenchman, was pre|
sented ]to him at a white1- house rej
ception. His salutation was "Ah! the
[ I Marquis of Hartington. rhymes with
! Mrs. Partington!" It is not hard to
; | imagine what the foreigner thought
; of the backwoods wit of the head of
! a great nation.
lj Lincoln Lacked Courage.
;j In forming an estimate of what
> constitute a great man one surely
: would not leave out personal cour:
j age, yet Lincoln has been called
1 "great" without this essential, if we
are to accept the testimony of those
ij who tell of his stealthy midnight en>
I tree into Washington a day or two
before his inauguration, accompanied
' by his lifelong friend, Lamon, heavily
armed. Lamon expressly declares
\ that Lincoln's fear of violence was
i without the slightest foundation.
- Horace Greely likened him to a
"hunted fugitive." t Ida Tarbell says
i that on inauguration day he not only
had platoons of soldiers at the street
corners, but had groups of riflemen
on the housetops and artillery at
> given points. She says he entered the
i capital through a board tunnel,.with
50 or 60 soldiers under the platform.
Lamon and Vice President Hamlin
J ? ktf tnrltr ndllo
recora men ue w^a umci i; udumi-uu
i ever afterwards of his fright, and
Hon. Henry L. Dawes says he never
altogether lost the look with which
he met the curious and not very kind>
ly gaze of the hoube of representatives
on the first morning after what
they , deemed "his pusillanimous
creep" into Washington. When Bals
tfmore had stopped the Massachu
setts soldiers and Maryland troops
from going into Washington and the
f capital seemed at the mercy of the
South, Miss Tarbell and others give
> a curious account of Lincoln's panic
and quote him as saying, "Why don't
' they come, oh! why don't they come!
: I begin to believe there is no North
f and the Seventh regiment is a myth."
> Russell wrote to the London Times,
> after the defeat at Bull Run, that
> | "Lincoln sat listening in fear and
I! trembling for the sound of the enei
I my's 'cannon." B. F. Butler says:
i"A careful .reading of that descrip5!
tion would almost lead one to infer
| that Lincoln was in a state of abject
5.1 fear," in which opinion I most heartij
ily agree with him!
Was Without Dignity.
When Charles Francis Adams vis"
ited the president to get his instrucl
tions before he left as minister to
England, he declares himself to have
been "half amused, half mortified,
and altogether shocked" at Lincoln's
behavior, and his unconsciousness of
the gravity of the crisis. Charlesi H.
Dana says that "the lack of respect
| for the president in all parties is un|
concealed,"and he wrote Adams, minister
to England, that Lincoln had no
admirer, and did not act, talk or feel
like the ruler of a great empire, in
a great crisis, and that "it was a calamity
to have him where he is."
Gen. Don Piatt in. his "Reminisi
. cences of Lincoln" says that he was
'not of a kindly or forgiving nature,
}; and showed the greatest insensibility
- to the ills of his fellow citizens and
*! soMiers. when the miseries of the
11 war were at their worst, as well as
J | to the condition of the negroes. In
- \fact, this writer claims that their wel;
fare did not enter into Lincoln's polirj
rv at all. His hatred of slavery and
-; slave holders was natural, as he came
) i from the "poor white" strain between
i
whom and the negro there was al
ways bitter hatred. This class hate
the negro because they could no
command his respect, and they hate'
the "poor buckra" because a negr
is naturally a snob. Fred Douglas
the most prominent negro politiciai
of that day, must have had some o
this feeling, as he conspired wit]
Fremont, Wendell Phillips am
Horace Greeley in a very nearly sue
cessful effort to defeat Lincoln's sec
ond election.
One has often heard it said tha
if Lincoln had lived, the South wouli
never have been treated as she wa
aiter the war, but after a study o
"The Real Lincoln," many doubt
arise in my mind as to whether i
would have made any difference, fo
Lincoln was more of a politician thai
a patriot or humanitarian and h
would never have risen above hi
party or would most probably hav'
given his sanction to all the indig
nities put upon a proud people. I
will forever be a debatable questioi
what his attitude would have been
for there is nothing to show he woul<
have been "the friend in need" ti
the downtrodden South.
Why Call Him Great?
> Now, why has this man been pu
on such a pedestal at the North an<
why are the people of the South fall
ing into line and talking about hi
"greatness?" One Southerner wa
heard to class him with Lee an<
Washington?those noble gentlemen
who walked in the fear of God, whos<
lips were never soiled by vile jokes
whose courage .was sublime am
?Anl/1 Vi ftt?/\
Wliuae pauiuiisixi nuuiu nave uoci
far above party politics and persona
consideration! Our youths shouh
be taught the difference between trm
greatness and a shoddy imitation o
it and should be taught to know th<
real Lincoln from the idealized om
that one hears of from the Northen
press and partisan historians. I one
listened to a debate at the Camdei
graded school on the query, "Wen
Calhoun, Clay and Webster America'
greatest statesmen?" and the nega
tive won and proved to their owi
satisfaction that Clay gambled, Web
ster drank and Calhoun tried to rui]
the senate because he couldn't rul
it, and that America's greatest states
man was Abraham Lincoln! It i
claimed that a Southern minister wa
heard to declare that he was th
greatest man who had walked th
earth since the Nazarene!
I confess I do not know what Lin
coin's fame as a statesman rests or
as I was not old enough when h
was president to understand jus
what he did to win the title? and thi
phase of his character was not dwel
on in the only book of reference a
my command, but I hope, for his ad
mirers' sakes, that it is better found
ed than the claim to his being i
"good man," made by his champions
It would be anomalous to call a per
son "good" who setoffs at religion am
whose word was not his bond accord
ing to well authenticated historj
who was "low, tricky and cunning,
according to the estimation of
brilliant member of his cabinet, th
contempt of which member for hi
chief made him insulting to him a
times. This contempt seems to hav
been shared by the other two mem
bers of the cabinet, and as Miss Tar
bell admits, by most of the promi
nent politicians of the day, and wa
doubtless engendered by intimat
knowledge of the man himself am
not by scorn of his humble birth o
from the uncouthness of manner fo
which he was notorious?his unde
niable intellect would have mad
them pass over his origin and chari
tably pardon his manners because o
the lack of social training it was al
most impossible for him to have ha>
in V?4a oorlv V7r*iith What W5JQ nmll
1U aiQ OWl 1 J J V/U V&A* ?f MV*? Tl WW r - w ably
unpardonable was his clownish
ness, his vulgarity and his genera
unfitness to be the chief of a grea
nation.
Merely a Mouthpiece.
A very tyro in logic could prov
that Lincoln's emancipation procla
mation didn't make him "great," be
cause he was simply the mouthpiec
of the Northern people, yet I am per
suaded this proclamation has bee:
accounted to him for righteousnes
by thousands of both black and whit
whn believe he was indeed the "grea
liberator." Now we must dig abou
this pedestal that Lincoln has bee:
put upon and see if there are gooi
and true reasons for placing hir
there before we simply follow th
lead and accept a myth and legem
for truth. And if we find he has
right there upon his pedestal, I ar
sure my colleagues of the U. D. C
will be as willing as I am to "giv
the devil his due" and allow hir
to stay there. But in the meantim
let every organization dig until w
get at the very root of the matter! ?
Ouch!
"That fellow Smith .must be
mighty bright man," observed Browr
"They tell me that he graduated i
both law and medicine and practice
both."
"Yes," replied Jones. "But th
lawyers all claim that he is a doctoi
and the doctors all claim that he i
a lawyer."
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Pursuant to the rules of the Democratic
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d president of each Democratic club in
o Bamberg county is requested to call
, a meeting of his club, designating
the hour thereof, to be holden on Satn
urday, April 22, 1916, for the purf
pose of reorganizing and electing ofh
ficers for the ensuing term; and also
3 to elect a county executive committeeman
and delegate to the county
convention which is hereby called to
meet in the court house at Bamberg,
S. C., on Monday, May 1st, 1916, at
t noon.
. "The convention.shall be composed
^ of delegates elected from the clubs
s in the county, one delegate lor every
f 25 members, and one delegate for a
g majority fraction thereof, based upon
the number of votes polled in the
* first primary of the preceding year."
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[i will be entitled to delegates as fole
lows:
Bamberg, 13; Clear Pond, 1; Colss
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hardt, 8; Govan, 2; Hightower's, 2;
- Hunter's Chapel, 2; Kearse, 3; Lees,
t 1; Midway, 1; Olar, 6. ?
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