From
“Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
August 25
It
seems that everyone wrote off Lincoln’s chances for re-election in 1864
including The London Post which wrote
this scathing dismissal a few days before the election: ‘Mr. Lincoln will go
down to posterity as a man who could not read signs of the times nor understand
the circumstances and interests of his own country, could not calculate his own
resources nor appreciate those of his enemy, who had no political aptitude, who
plunged his country into a great war without a plan, who failed without excuse
and fell without a friend.’
‘The
reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.’
-
Mark Twain
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