Many news organizations opposed Lincoln from the beginning –
much as they have President Trump in our time.
Negative attacks on Abraham Lincoln…
- “Within 90 days from the time Lincoln is inaugurated, the Republican Party will be utterly ruined and destroyed. His path is environed with so many difficulties, that even if he had the ability of Jefferson and the energy of Jackson, he would fail, but he is a weak and inexperienced man, and his administration will be doomed from the commencement.”
- “If he takes that radical section of the Republican Party, the conservative wing of it will cut loose and repudiate him. If, on the other hand, he courts the conservatives and pursues a moderate conciliatory policy, the radicals will make open war upon his administration.”
- “his election was a rash experiment, his administration is a deplorable failure.”
- “As President of the United States he must have enough sense to see and acknowledge he has been an egregious failure. One thing must be self-evident to him, and that is that under no circumstances can he hope to be the next President of the United States … (he should) retire from the position to which, in an evil hour, he was exalted.”
- “evidently a person of very inferior cast of character, wholly unequal to the crisis.”
- “Lincoln was “a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla.”
- “a frontier hack”
- “an idiot”
- “the original gorilla”
- “is universally an admitted failure, has no will, no courage, no executive capacity… and his spirit necessarily infuses itself downwards through all departments.”
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