RIDING OUT THE STORM PART ONE
In August 1862, the
month before the issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Wendell
Phillips, one of the most influential abolitionists of the day, wrote that the
President 'has no mind whatever. He has not uttered a word that gives even a
twilight glimpse of any antislavery purpose. He may be honest - nobody cares
whether a tortoise is honest or not; he has neither insight, nor prevision, nor
decision. As long as you keep the present turtle at the head of the Government
you make a pit with one hand and fill it with the other.'
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