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" Abraham Lincoln. The great achievement in self-government of this vaunted democracy, which we have been so loudly and arrogantly called on to admire, is, to drag from his proper obscurity an ex-rail-splitter and country attorney, and to place what it... "
The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries: Extra number - Page 24
1925
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 91

England - 1862 - 822 pages
...represent the material interests and responsibilities of the nation 1 Not at all ; he is the choice of a numerical majority of a people who have derived the...Abraham Lincoln and Mr WH Seward as their best men 1 If not, can they substitute better men? If they cannot, what other proof is needed of the inefficacy...
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"Blackwood's" History of the United States ...

Frederick Stoever Dickson - Great Britain - 1896 - 28 pages
...foreign country, nor an American a foreigner," and that " they and we are one flesh," the conclusion is forced upon us that the education of the average English...substitute better men ? If they cannot, what other 20 21 proof is needed of the inefficacy of their boasted institutions ? An imbecile executive above,...
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The Magazine of History: With Notes and Queries. Extra numbers

1925 - 504 pages
...demand in the fame of Abraham Lincoln, when we are told that "it would have been impossible for him to have emerged, under British institutions, from the mediocrity to which nature had condemned him, and from which pure democracy alone was capable of rescuing him."? "Punch" is, I believe, presumed...
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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, The Creation ...

Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - History - 1995 - 276 pages
...death, as a nearly illiterate politician. "It would have been impossible," a London magazine commented, "for him, or any of his Cabinet, to have emerged,...the mediocrity to which nature had condemned them." 18 Frank J. Merli, Great Britain and the Confederate Navy (Bloomington, Ind., 1970), 21. 'calamity...
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