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From: jfs@petrus.UUCP (Jack Stanley)
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Subject: A. LINCOLN   A MAN SO MISUNDERSTOOD>
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 14:02:51 EDT
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                 I just read in a posting  discusing the presidents

  and rating them from 1 to 10.            


           Lincoln    10     this is the reply to that elevational number.


                  Lincoln is highly over rated, he only freed the slaves!!!!


                 Lincoln not only freed the slaves, but made the first steps
to create a country as we now know it.       What was Lincoln saying in the
Gettysburg address...My definition is......................................
    The nation was born in 1776.  And we are fighting a civil war so painful

and distructive.     But this war, and the deaths of our sons are not in vain.

      That the war will bring a new and better country before our eyes.
           
where the rights of all are reconized, for our children and so on .....

        




                Of course this is a very liberal translation of the address.

But thats about all it really said, anyway, I not posting this for that point.


                 Lincoln was fighting not only the south during the civil

war. He has a major part of the population of the north against many of his

ideas as well.              What a terrible existance his last years must

have been.      Stories of the pain he went through watching the dead and 

wounded enter Washington are so touching in their fatherly fashion.

                The nation as the war approached it's end came to love

Lincoln in a way that has never been repeated.

                 
                No president has ever aged as much in 4 years as Lincoln did.

He said himself " I am here to save the union, after that my workis done". 

                He fought against all to acheve(sp)his goal.


              To that, every american can proudly say.                  


                  I say THANK YOU Mr. LINCOLN  

  Im glad Seward wasn't in that office !!!!!!!


                            Jack Stanley    (201) 292 3199 
                     

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