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基督山伯爵2023-06-30这体现了林肯与生俱来的一个领导秘诀。“这就是：抛开人的因素，抛开所有小节，抓住大势所趋，以及对合理结果产生影响的各个重大要素进行缜密思考。”
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基督山伯爵2023-06-28林肯终其一生，始终表现出一种敏锐把握公众舆论分寸的独特才能。作为一位政治家，他凭直觉知道何时需要牢牢把握，何时需要耐心等待，何时需要循循善诱。
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基督山伯爵2023-06-21“我们需要党内最强的人进入内阁，我们需要把我们自己的人团结在一起。我已经认真观察了全党，我的结论是，这些人正是最有才干的人，那样一来，我就没有权利阻止他们为这个国家效忠。”
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照叶2021-12-26Even Whitman might have been amazed bythe scope of Lincoln’s legacy by the time the new century arrived. In 1908,in a wild and remote area of the North Caucasus, Leo Tolstoy, the greatest writer of the age, was the guest of a tribal chief “living far away from civilized life in the mountains.” Gathering his family and neighbors, the chief asked Tolstoy to tell stories about the famous men of history. Tolstoy told how he entertained the eager crowd for hours with tales of Alexander, Caesar, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. When he was winding to a close, the chief stood and said, “But you have not told us a syllable about the greatest general and greatest ruler of the world. We want to know something about him. He was a hero. He spoke with a voice of thunder; he laughed like the sunrise a...
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照叶2021-12-26Lincoln thought differently. He trusted the bond he had developed withhis soldiers during his many trips to the front. After every defeat, he had joined them, riding slowly along their lines, boosting their spirits. He had wandered companionably throughtheir encampments, fascinated by the smallest details of camp life. Sitting with the wounded in hospital tents, he had taken their hands and wished them well. The humorous stories he had told clusters of soldiers had been retold to hundreds more. The historian William Davis estimates that “a quarter-million ormore had had some glimpse of him on their own.” In addition, word of his pardons to soldiers who had fallen asleep on picket duty or exhibited fear in the midst of battle had spread through the ranks. Most important of all, through his ...
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照叶2021-12-26James Russell Lowell, a Harvard professor considered the “foremost American man of letters in his time,”revealed a more incisive view of Lincoln’s qualities. In a long article for the North American Review, which Lincoln read with pleasure, Lowell traced the progress of the Lincoln administration. “Never did a President enter upon office with less means at his command,” he began. “All that was known of him was that he was a good stump-speaker, nominated for his availability,—that is, because he had no history.” For many months, Lowell observed, the untried president seemed too hesitant—on military engagements, on emancipation, on recruiting black troops. Increasingly, it was becomingevident that this Abraham Lincoln was “a character of marked individualityand capacity for affairs.” In a de...
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照叶2021-12-26When Lincoln finished, “the assemblage stood motionless and silent,” according to the awestruck George Gitt. “The extreme brevity of the address together with its abrupt close had so astonished the hearers that they stood transfixed. Had not Lincoln turned and moved toward his chair, the audience would very likely have remained voiceless for several moments more. Finally there came applause.” Lincoln may have initially interpreted the audience’s surprise as disapproval. As soon as he finished, he turned to Ward Lamon. “Lamon, that speech won’t scour! It is a flat failure, and the people are disappointed.” Edward Everett knew better, and expressed his wonder and respect the following day. “I should be glad,” he wrote Lincoln, “if I could flattermyself that I came as near to the central idea...
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照叶2021-12-26In a scenario common to many border-state homes torn by divided loyalties, the Bates brothers had joined opposing sides in the war. Twenty-eight-year-old Fleming Bates had enlisted in the Confederate Army and was serving under Major General Sterling Price. Fleming faced the prospect of going into battle against any of four brothers. His older brother Julian, a surgeon, had been made a colonel in the Missouri militia. His younger brother Coalter was with the Army of the Potomac and would fight at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Another brother, Richard, was clerking for his father but would soon join the Union navy; while the family’s youngest son, Charles Woodson, was a cadet at West Point. For Bates, who valued his family above all else, nothing could be more h...
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照叶2021-12-26Chance, positioning, and managerial strategy—all played a role in Lincoln’s victory. Still, if we consider the comparative resources each contender brought to the race—their range of political skills, their emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities, their rhetorical abilities, and theirdetermination and willingness to workhard—it is clear that when opportunity beckoned, Lincoln was thebest prepared to answer the call. His nomination, finally, was the result of his character and his life experiences—these separated him from his rivals and provided him with advantages unrecognized at the time.Having risen to power with fewer privileges than any of his rivals, Lincoln was more accustomed to rely upon himself to shape events. From beginning to end, he took the greatestcontrol of the proces...
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照叶2021-12-26Less than two decades earlier, Alexis de Tocqueville, who was deeply opposed to slavery and believed emancipation to be inevitable, had written: “The most dreadful of all the evils that threaten the future of the United States arises from the presence of blacks on its soil.” Evenin the states where slavery had been eradicated and where suffrage had been granted, he observed, countless obstacles had been placed in the way of the black man. “If he presents himself to vote, he runs a risk to his life. Oppressed, he can complain, but he finds only whites among his judges…. His son is excluded from theschool where the descendants of Europeans come to be instructed. In theaters he cannot buy for the price of gold the right to be placed at the side of one who was his master; in hospitals he lies ...
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照叶2021-12-26Unlike the majority of antislavery orators, who denounced the South and castigated slaveowners as corrupt and un-Christian, Lincoln pointedly denied fundamental differences between Northerners and Southerners. He argued that “they are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up…. When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in anysatisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself.”
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照叶2021-12-26which lasted nearly four hours. At one point, Seward interrupted to ask for an explanation of something Douglas had said. “Ah,” Douglas retorted, “youcan’t crawl behind that free n-r dodge.” In reply, Seward said: “Douglas, no man will ever be President of the United States who spells ‘negro’ with two gs.”
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照叶2021-12-26Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward’s hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recently released from prison after serving five years for a crime it was later determined he did not commit, entered the home of John Van Nest, a wealthy farmer and friend of Seward’s. Armed with two knives, he killed Van Nest, his pregnant wife, their small child, and Mrs. Van Nest’s mother. When he was caught within hours, Freeman immediately confessed. He exhibited no remorse and laughed uncontrollablyas he spoke. The sheriff hauled him away, barely reaching the jail ahead of an enraged mob intent upon lynchinghim. “I trust in the mercy of God thatI shall never again be a witness to such an outbu...
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照叶2021-12-26ABRAHAM LINCOLN, William Henry Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates were members of a restless generation of Americans, destined to leave behind the eighteenth-century world of their fathers. Bates, the oldest, was born when George Washington was still president; Seward and Chase during Jefferson’s administration; Lincoln shortly before James Madison took over. Thousands of miles separate their birthplaces in Virginia, New York, New Hampshire, and Kentucky. Nonetheless, social and economic forces shaped their paths with marked similarities. Despite striking differences in station, talent, and temperament, all four aspirants for the Republican nomination left home, journeyed west, studied law, dedicated themselves to public service, joined the Whig Party, developed a reputation for orator...
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---2013-07-12威德写到：“很多晚上，在车里，我一直在想您必须经受的种种严酷折磨，它将是[一场]对智慧和性情的极大考验。对于智慧的考验，您不会失败；但是在六十岁的时候，对我们性情的考验，我们都没有很大把握……”
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augustus2020-02-28shortly before he died from a blood clot at the age of sixty-six in 1905, he dreamed that he had returned "to the White House to the President who turned out to be Mr. Lincoln. He was very kind and considerate, and sympathetic about my illness...He gave me two unimportant letters to answer. I was pleased that this slight order was within my power to obey."