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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 ....
Lincoln’s New Party, Anti-Irish and Anti-Slavery An excerpt from “Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union,” by Irish America publisher, Niall O’Dowd. March 1861 inaugural at the Capitol building. The dome above the rotunda was still under construction. Photograph shows participants and crowd at the first inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Lincoln is standing under the wood canopy, at the front, midway between the left and center posts. His face is in shadow but the white shirt front is visible. (Wik-pedia/Library of Congress. Author unknown.) ....