Not my true view Mr. Chase, just being rhetorical to make a point. The history of Lincoln has been squeezed, tendorized, filleted, diced, and juiced into almost anything you want it to be. He was a man, with all its faults and shortcomings, who, like other men before him, was elected to president.

He was not the worst president or the greatest president. He was not Hitlers grandfather, nor was he God's favorite. He was a store-keeper, prosperous lawyer, a long time Whig politician who later converted to the Republican Party. He became a successful corporate lawyer representing railroad interest. He practiced law for twenty-three years. He was supported by a political machine that provided to him the people and money required to win the Presidency. He made big mistakes and had large successes. I think he had it pretty good most of his life. The biggest threat to him personally being kicked in the head by a mule.

Had he lived he would not have attained the God like status that he is given but probably would have been more favorably remembered by more Southerners, which is the saddest thing of all.

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David Upton