“… it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God … and to recognize the sublime truth, announced by the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. …” Abraham Lincoln in his 1863 Proclamation for a National Day of Prayer Thanksgiving Proclamation City...
... the bitter truth of that maxim in 1860 after he boasted at school about having met Abraham Lincoln, having been introduced to the then presidential candidate with his journalist father. The boy's friends thought he had made the story up, and bullied him. To settle the matter, Patten's teacher wrote to the White House asking for clarification about whether there was any truth to the anecdote....
The first entry reads Abraham Lincoln/his hand and pen/he will be good but/god knows When. The last reads Allow Mr. Ashmum & friend to come in at 9 a.m. tomorrow. A. Lincoln. The first is boyish doggerel, while the second is the last thing the great president wrote -- at precisely 8:10 p.m. on April 14, 1865 just minutes before he left the White House for Ford's Theater, where John...
El Jefe and I are off tomorrow at o'dark thirty with a crew of fellow Presbyterian Civil War buffs~known as the Civil War Aficianados~to tour the Lincoln Historical Museum and other sights in Springfield, Illinois like his law office, the site of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Lincoln family's burial site. The Aficianados read and discussed A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White...
I walk by the shop every day and often go in and I noticed that PaperXOXO has a FABULOUS selection of holiday cards. The shop will be open late tonight during the Snowflake Celebration! Check out their cards at the shop on 178ALincoln Place (just east of Seventh Avenue) while the supply lasts. Alison, the owner, is also making custom holiday cards. FYI: she recently changed the name...
I found an online site at OSU that contains the Official Records for The War of the Rebellion: eHistory at OSU | Online Books | The Official Records of the Civil War I've picked out a few interesting passages from the last week of the war since I was just at Petersburg and Appomattox a few weeks back. This first passage is Lincoln passing on his congratulations for the breakthrough at Five Forks,...
... At least that was the claim of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, chaired by department-store magnate A. Lincoln Filene. This was utter nonsense. A lot of crops couldn’t be harvested until the morning dew had evaporated. What’s more, morning dew has no effect whatsoever on firmness or crispness.
How Depressions Work The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country--A. Lincoln. Allow yourself a four-year process that doesn't make sense to those living in the moment and...
