prarie wit and folk wisdom. There is a counterlegend of Lincoln, one shared ironically

enough by many white Southerners and certain black Americans of our time. Neither of

these views, of course, reveals much about the man who really lived--legend and political

As a man, Lincoln was complex, many-sided, and richly human. He was an

intense, brooding person, he was plagued with chronic depression most of his life. At the

time he even doubted his ability to please or even care about his wife. Lincoln remained a

moody, melancholy man, given to long introspection about things like death and mortality.

Preoccupied with death, he was also afraid to insanity. Lincoln was a teetotaler because

liquor left him "flabby and undone", blurring his mind and threatening his self-control.

One side of Lincoln was always Supremely logical and analytical, he was intrigued by the

clarity of mathematics. As a self-made man, Lincoln felt embarrassed about his log-cabin

origins and never liked to talk about them. By the 1850s, Lincoln was one of the most

self-proclaimed free Republic. He opposed slavery, too, because he had witnessed some

would have a victory. One of the great ironies of the war was that McClellan presented

waging a bipartisan war effort, with Northern Democrats and Republicans alike enlisting

Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to what many historians have said Lincoln's

loyal border states. At the same time, the federal government would sponsor a

his party would nor hurt slavery in the South. But Southerns refused to believe anything

an army of occupation would be necessary to control the rebellious white majority in the

Northern free Negros and Southern ex-slaves now enlisted as Union soldiers. Unhappily,

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