On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
When Wendell Phillips denounced Abraham Lincoln as “the slave-hound of Illinois,” he did not show himself more virtuous than Lincoln, but more foolish.
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Roosevelt uses the historical example of Wendell Phillips's criticism of Abraham Lincoln to illustrate the folly of extreme rhetoric.
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