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Lincoln's Legacy for Our Time: a Transcript Of TRANSCRIPT Lincoln’s Legacy for Our Time by James M. McPherson The Legacy of Lincoln: U.S. History in American Schooling Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Omni Parker House Boston, MA When Abraham Lincoln breathed his last at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton intoned: “Now he belongs to the ages.” Stanton’s remark was more prescient than he knew, for Lincoln’s image and his legacy became the possession not only of future ages of Americans, but also of people of other nations. On the centenary of Lincoln’s birth in 1909, Leo Tolstoy described him as, “a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity.” An Islamic leader, whom Tolstoy met in a remote part of the Caucusus, projected a more militant image of Lincoln, declaring that America’s sixteenth president “spoke with a voice of thunder… and his deeds were as strong as the rock.” When Jacqueline Kennedy lived in the White House, she sought comfort in the Lincoln Room in times of trouble. “The kind of peace I felt in that room,” she recalled, “was what you feel when going into a church. I used to feel his strength, I’d sort of be talking to him.” Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to persuade Jacqueline Kennedy’s husband to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation on the hundredth anniversary of the first. John Kennedy demurred. So King went ahead on his own. When he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 to deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech, King declared: “Fivescore years ago , a great American, in whose shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” James M. McPherson taught at Princeton University from 1962 to 2004, where he is currently the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Emeritus of American History. He is the author of fifteen books and the editor of another dozen, mostly on the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. His books have won several prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Center for Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, the Lincoln Prize for For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, and a second Lincoln Prize School Reform for Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. He has served as president of the Society of American Historians and the American Historical Association. April 2013 Lincoln’s Legacy for Our Time Lincoln could not anticipate the reverence that had seceded from the Union in response to Lincoln’s millions would feel for him in future ages. But he was election. Several more slave states were threatening intensely aware, as he told Congress in December to go out. Even as Lincoln spoke in Trenton, 1861 when America was engulfed in a tragic Civil delegates from those first seven states were meeting War, that this struggle to preserve the Union “is not in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the independent altogether for today–it is for a vast future also.” More nation of the Confederate States of America. Civil than any other President of the United States, except War, or a permanent division of the country with its perhaps Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, dire precedent for further divisions, or both, loomed Abraham Lincoln had a profound sense of history. on the horizon. Thus it is not surprising that when He did not acquire it by formal education. Unlike Lincoln shifted from his discussion of the Revolution Woodrow Wilson, Lincoln did not have a Ph.D. He to the present, he “began: “I am exceedingly anxious” did not study history in college or high school; indeed, that what those men fought for, “that something even he did not study it in school at all, for he had less than more than National Independence; that something a year of formal schooling, which included no history that held out a great promise to all the people of the courses. The only work of history Lincoln seems to world for all time to come; I am exceedingly anxious have read as a boy was “Parson” Weems’s famous that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of filiopietistic biography of George Washington, with the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with its apocryphal story of the hatchet and cherry tree. the original idea for which that struggle was made. That book made a lasting impression on Lincoln. Forty The next day, Washington’s birthday, Lincoln spoke years after he first read it, President-elect Lincoln at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where he addressed the New Jersey legislature in Trenton, spelled out more clearly what he believed was at stake near the spot where George Washington’s ragged both in the Revolution and in the crisis of 1861. “I troops had won a victory the day after Christmas have often inquired of myself,” said Lincoln, “what 1776 that saved the American Revolution from great principle or idea it was that kept this Union collapse. Lincoln told the legislators: “I remember so long together. It was not the mere matter of the all the accounts” in Weems’s book “of the battle- separation of the colonies from the mother land, but fields and struggles for the liberty of the country, that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this deeply as the struggle here at Trenton… The crossing country, but hope to the world for all future time.” of the river; the contest with the Hessians; the great At this point in Lincoln’s remarks, the newspaper hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves text indicated “Great applause” from the audience, on my memory more than any single revolutionary which included the city council and leading citizens event… I recollect thinking then, boy even though I of Philadelphia. Lincoln told them: “I have never was, that there must have been something more than had a feeling politically that did not spring from common that those men struggled for.” the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence” (“Great cheering,” according to the These words were not merely an exercise in nostalgia. press). The ringing phrases that “all men are created As always, Lincoln invoked the past for a purpose. equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with On this occasion he shifted from the Revolution certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, to the present and future. Prospects for the United Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” said Lincoln States in that present and future were dark. The in 1861, “gave promise” not just to Americans, but country of which Lincoln would become President “hope to the world” that “in due time the weights eleven days later was no longer the United States, should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and but the dis-United States. Seven slave states, fearing that all should have an equal chance. (Cheers.)” for the future of their peculiar institution in a nation governed by the new antislavery Republican Party, 2 Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research The sincerity of some in the audience who cheered for national independence by a single people had the Lincoln’s egalitarian sentiments might be questioned. coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a But Lincoln was quite sincere in his endorsement of merely revolutionary document”–the Declaration of them. Lincoln was, of course, painfully aware that Independence–“an abstract truth, applicable to all many Americans enjoyed neither liberty nor equality. men and all times.” Four million were slaves, making the United States– the self-professed beacon of liberty to oppressed Universal and timeless this truth may be, but in masses everywhere–the largest slaveholding country Jefferson’s time it remained mostly as Lincoln in the world. Lincoln grasped this nettle. “I hate… described it–abstract. Fate decreed that it fell the monstrous injustice of slavery,” he had said in his to Lincoln, not Jefferson, to give substance and famous Peoria speech of 1854. “I hate it because it meaning to what Jefferson had called a self-evident deprives our republican example of its just influence truth. Ironically, it was the slaveholders who provided in the world–enables the enemies of free institutions, Lincoln the opportunity to do so, for by taking their with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites.” states out of the Union they set in train a progression of events that destroyed the very social and political As for equality, said Lincoln on another occasion, the order founded on slavery that they had seceded author of the Declaration of Independence and the to preserve. founding fathers who signed it clearly “did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects.” They did Secession transformed the main issue before the not even “mean to assert the obvious untruth” that all country from slavery to disunion. When Lincoln men in 1776 were equal in rights and opportunities. became President, he confronted the question Rather, “they meant to set up a standard maxim for not what to do about slavery, but what to do about free society, which should be… constantly looked secession. On this question, Lincoln did not hesitate. to, constantly labored for, and even though never Branding secession as “the essence of anarchy,” he perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and insisted in 1861 that “the central idea pervading this thereby constantly spreading and deepening its struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving influence, and augmenting the happiness and value that popular government is not an absurdity.
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