Apocryphal at best.


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From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, Feb 2, 2022 8:50 pm
Subject: Lincoln anecdote?

I received a query from someone not on the list about the veracity of a
Lincoln story. My correspondent said this anecdote had been used in court
by an attorney in his closing argument. I've never heard this story.
Henry Wiencek

  *When he was President, he was getting off a ship with his aide, and on
the dock, a slave was being beaten; being beaten by his master. The aide
said to the President, "Man, I pity that slave." You know what President
Lincoln said? "No, don't pity the slave, pity those people that are
standing by just watching that happen and doing nothing." *

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