Excerpt from The Solitude of Abraham Lincoln: Typical Reminiscences Illustrating a Life Whose Deepest Moments Were Lived Alone Early in Lincoln's first administration he revealed himself to his Secretary of State, impressively and with his first understanding, as a man of supreme soli tude. For when Seward submitted to the President at one of the first Cabinet meetings a paper containing an offer to relieve Lincoln from the responsibility of conceiving and directing the policy of the Administra tion, Lincoln replied with ...
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Excerpt from The Solitude of Abraham Lincoln: Typical Reminiscences Illustrating a Life Whose Deepest Moments Were Lived Alone Early in Lincoln's first administration he revealed himself to his Secretary of State, impressively and with his first understanding, as a man of supreme soli tude. For when Seward submitted to the President at one of the first Cabinet meetings a paper containing an offer to relieve Lincoln from the responsibility of conceiving and directing the policy of the Administra tion, Lincoln replied with gentleness of speech and without any resentment, by saying no more than this, namely, that he must alone decide and do what was necessary to be decided and done. And Seward then first caught a glimpse of the solitude and of the moral grandeur of this man. The Secretary of State then determined that he would thereafter give loyal, con stant, unhesitating support to Lincoln, and to that pledge Seward was faithful. An anecdote related to Gen. Thomas L. James at the time he was Postmaster General in Garfield's Cabinet illustrates the supreme solitude of Lincoln. A member of the Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War in Lincoln's first Administration said to Gen eral James that as time passed the world would have clearer understanding of Lincoln's solitude, and the Senator went on to say, that his first understanding of Lincoln as a man of solitude was upon an occasion when the Senator was serving as a member of the Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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