Lincoln, the Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century C.1
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And what I leave undone, I leave undone because I believe that serves the cause of the Union." He knew full well that the Union would not "continue to exist half-slave and half- free." But he knew also that the only principle upon which he could draw to- gether those men of extreme views was the preservation of the Union, the mainte- nance of the integrity of our common country. There are people in every community who can see the flies on a barn door with- out ever seeing the barn door. Certain... lively, buzzing details out in the fore- ground take up their entire attention and they miss the main fact. Lincoln could always see the barn door! He could see 34 ABRAHAM LINCOLN the main fact in any situation! He could recognize the deeper underlying principles which were at stake and when he saw them he anchored to them. The wisdom of his course is perfectly apparent to us now. It began to be ap- parent in the later years of the Civil War. In the Republican Convention of 1864, which renominated Lincoln, they very shrewdly put in as temporary Chairman, Mr.
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