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DanTheFan

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Lincoln: "All honor to Jefferson."


He grounded his case against slavery on the Declaration of Independence, praising TJ as "The man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times."

Still, Jefferson owned slaves throughout his life and best evidence says that he raped Sally Hemings over years. Yesterday's standards? Albemarle's Edward Coles, well-known by TJ, opposed slavery and ended up moving to Illinois to free slaves that he inherited. Cole's uncle, Travis Tucker, of Norfolk, also freed his slaves.

Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, wrote, "Mr. Lincoln hated Thomas Jefferson as a man—rather as a politician, and yet the highest compliment I ever heard or read of his was paid to the memory of Jefferson."



[Post edited by DanTheFan at 08/21/2022 09:10AM]

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Posted: 08/20/2022 at 7:42PM



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