“A heaven that doesn't require us to storm the battlements is a hollow shell of a thing not worth crossing the street for.” - Arnold Kunst

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

March 13

According to Horace Greeley, the editor of the influential New York Tribune, who had excoriated Lincoln in the past for his “mistaken deference” to slavery, the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was “one of those facts in human history which marks not only an era in the progress of the nation, but an epoch in the history of the world.”