University for four years. Author or editor of 11 books, several of which nominated for National Book awards, his recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in the series con size Lincoln Library series published by Southern Illinois University Press and was released in september. Of the 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first full length study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19th century europe. He also served two elected terms on his local school board. So lets welcome professor jason silverman. [ applause ] thank you so much. That last part about the eight years on the Rockhill School board, forget about all my education. Thats when i learned the real meaning of civil war.
Supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. There are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. First, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. Does anyone really think that when the nashville City Government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the citys residents . Can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers . We know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. Which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas nebraska act and to lincolns noble recoil from the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories regarding slavery. That recoil
Outside the united states, lincoln prejudicially claimed that intellectual curiosity and scientific progress was the exclusive domain of the western world. He recognized that asia was the birthplace of the human family, and he concluded that asians, like africanamericans, were indeed human beings. But he believed that asia was an ancient crumbling civilization whose time had long passed. The human family originated, as is thought, somewhere in asia, lincoln said, and have worked their way principally westward. Just now in civilization and in the arts, the people of asia are entirely behind those of europe, those of the east of europe behind those of the west of it, while we here in america think we discover and invent and improve faster than any of them. I think maybe when he said that, lincoln recognized he was on a bit of thin ice. Because he said, they may think this is arrogance, but they cannot deny that russia has called on us to show her how to build steamboats and railroads, wh
Lament of the irish immigrant, set to music. Many of lincolns quips also resorted to irish analogies. Sometimes they were caustic, and perhaps a bit insulting to make a point. His first reported jibe about a poor irishman comes from one of his congressional speeches on the need for sensible improvements which he described an irishman who had a pair of new boots. Quoting lincoln i shall never get him on, said patrick, until i wear them a day or two and stretch them out a bit, unquote. Late in the quarter, an observer recalled that lincoln said there was a Cabinet Meeting in the afternoon, general grant who had just returned gave a very interesting account of the state of the south, and the good feeling manifested by the offices of the confederate army. They all said they were ready to lay down their guns and go home. Then lincoln said some of you just said something about hunting up old jeff davis. Well, i for one hope he would be like pattys flea. When they get their fingers on him, he
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