{"id":17905,"date":"2015-07-04T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2015-07-04T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:39:40","slug":"nytimes-what-did-lincoln-really-think-of-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17905","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: What Did Lincoln Really Think of Jefferson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/04\/opinion\/what-did-lincoln-really-think-of-jefferson.html?ref=todayspaper\">What Did Lincoln Really Think of Jefferson?<\/a> by Allen C. Guelzo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMr. Lincoln hated Thomas Jefferson as a man,\u201d wrote William Henry Herndon, Lincoln\u2019s law partner of 14 years \u2014 and \u201cas a politician.\u201d Especially after Lincoln read Theodore F. Dwight\u2019s sensational, slash-all biography of Jefferson in 1839, Herndon believed \u201cMr. Lincoln never liked Jefferson\u2019s moral character after that reading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>True enough, Thomas Jefferson had not been easy to love, even in his own time. No one denied that Jefferson was a brilliant writer, a wide reader and a cultured talker. But his contemporaries also found him \u201ca man of sublimated and paradoxical imagination\u201d and \u201cone of the most artful, intriguing, industrious and double-faced politicians in all America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln, who was born less than a month before Jefferson left the presidency in 1809, had his own reasons for loathing Jefferson \u201cas a man.\u201d Lincoln was well aware of Jefferson\u2019s \u201crepulsive\u201d liaison with his slave, Sally Hemings, while \u201ccontinually puling about liberty, equality and the degrading curse of slavery.\u201d But he was just as disenchanted with Jefferson\u2019s economic policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: What Did Lincoln Really Think of Jefferson? by Allen C. Guelzo: \u201cMr. Lincoln hated Thomas Jefferson as a man,\u201d wrote William Henry Herndon, Lincoln\u2019s law partner of 14 years \u2014 and \u201cas a politician.\u201d Especially after Lincoln read Theodore &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17906,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}