Lincoln and Hatred Vast and Furious

Lincoln was President of a sad country, a profoundly sad, deeply divided country. And to appreciate the breadth and sweep of his contributions to this country we need to know that he was up against forces both vast and furious, as will be manifest in other blog postings.

There was intractability represented in the American Civil War, a kind of stubbornness that is all but deathless. Abraham Lincoln’s take on that intractability was simplicity itself, for against all that is the intractability of Lincoln himself.

Is not the following statement carved from the granite of the great American heartland? “I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsake me.”