With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Abraham Lincoln Replies to a Political Rival

Abraham Lincoln Replies to a Political Rival (057.00.00)

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Cassius Clay, an enthusiastic but undisciplined Kentucky abolitionist, thought he should be the next president of the United States. Clay would have settled for vice president, but he accepted the fact that the party needed an Eastern Democrat to balance the ticket. Aware that Clay lacked the necessary judgment to manage either office effectively, Lincoln sidestepped Clay’s direct solicitation for a prominent place in the possible future Republican administration.

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I shall, in the canvass, and especially afterwards, if the result shall devolve the administration upon me ...


<p>Cassius Clay, an enthusiastic but undisciplined Kentucky abolitionist, thought he should be the next president of the United States. Clay would have settled for vice president, but he accepted the fact that the party needed an Eastern Democrat to balance the ticket. Aware that Clay lacked the necessary judgment to manage either office effectively, Lincoln sidestepped Clay’s direct solicitation for a prominent place in the possible future Republican administration.</p>