![]() “for the first time in my life, and I suppose the first time in any colored man's life, I attended the reception of President Lincoln on the evening of the inauguration. The President greeted him with "Here comes my friend Douglass" – and so, as Douglass later recalled, With malice toward none and with charity toward all.Įven though Douglass had met with Lincoln at the White House during the War, he was denied entrance - as an "inadmissible black man" - to the post-Inaugural Levee there until, that is, Lincoln heard of it and ordered that he be allowed in. With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right. Frederick Douglass, quoted in Allen Thorndike Rice’s Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, 1888ĭouglass quotes here from the beginning of the last paragraph of what he deemed Lincoln's “sacred effort”, the Second Inaugural: Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let. That was the last time I saw him to speak with him. Lincoln, it was a sacred effort,'"and then I walked off. Lincoln, I cannot stop here to talk with you, as there are thousands waiting to shake you by the hand" he said again: '"What did you think of it?'"I said: "Mr. Lincoln saw me his countenance lightened up, and he said in a voice which was heard all round "Here comes my friend Douglass." As I approached him he reached out his hand, gave me a cordial shake, and said: "Douglass, I saw you in the crowd today listening to my inaugural address. There is no man's opinion that I value more than yours what do you think of it?'' I said: "Mr. With Malice towards One and All' was the weekly column series published by Indian author and journalist Khushwant Singh in the leading English language dailes of India, occupying two full length columns on the editorial page of the Saturday edition. I could not have been more than ten feet from him when Mr. The ladies were in very fine attire, and Mrs. A perfect sea of beauty and elegance, too, it was. ![]() ![]() In less than half a minute I was invited into the East Room of the White House. ![]()
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