Abraham Lincoln was a master of political compromise during the Civil War. In order to accomplish his goals of sustaining the Union, this President employed his wisdom of keeping his friends close and his enemies closer. Many of his cabinet initially had their own ambitions and agendas. He kept some and subtly eliminated the others. Many of his greatest critics became the President’s ardent supporters. Lincoln intuitively knew that bi-partisan policy would unify the citizens of the country.
The current government policy is partisan in the extreme and if it continues the chaos will drown out all reason and compromise. In addition, a cessation of the political “white noise” and even a semblance of non-partisan direction would go a long way in solving our domestic and international dilemma.
Bummer
Lincoln, the wizard of eloquence and understatement ends his first inaugural;
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Abraham Lincoln
