Is there a place in the imagination of the would-be leader for genuine compassion? There was for Lincoln!
The story goes that one Michael Delaney was sentenced to death for deserting his Clorady regiment in 1862. His file [like hundreds of others] was passed up to President Lincoln who reviewed death sentences from courts martial as a matter of course. This is what he wrote on Delaney's file: "Let him fight instead of being shor. A. Lincoln"
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