Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Strange in the twentieth century
I also carried away from that table an impression of Mr Lincoln’s views on slaves and slavery which must seem strange in the twentieth century since it varies somewhat from popular belief. I recall, for example, that at one point he described the negroes as ‘the most confounded nuisance on this continent, not excepting the Democrats’.
Flash For Freedom!, p.128, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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