Feb 8, 1993 · He was called an ape, a baboon, a clown, a traitor, a tyrant, a monster, an idiot, a eunuch, a bigot, a demagogue, a lunatic, a despot, a blunderer, a charlatan and a bully. The press was much...

The wickedness of the Lincoln conspiracy against the public liberty exceeds anything in history. MAN 1: Abraham Lincoln was born ignorant, and he's been losing ground every since. MAN 2: That face alone could get him hanged. WOMAN 1: In one month, Mrs. Lincoln overspent the money for the whole four years!! MAN 2:

May 23, 2013 · Yet Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the famous abolitionist, called Lincoln “Dishonest Abe” in a letter she wrote to Wendell Phillips in 1864, a year after Lincoln had freed the slaves in rebel...

As David Donald put it, Lincoln’s own associates thought him “a simple Susan, a baboon, an aimless punster, a smutty joker”; he was, in the view of the abolitionist Wendell Phillips, a “huckster in politics,” and “a first-rate second-rate man.”

Feb 7, 2009 · Unidentified Man #1: The president is an idiot, a prairie baboon, a blood-thirsty tyrant. SIMON: McClellan built the largest standing army in history, then shrank from sending the men who...

Sep 21, 2020 · From Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln, revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives on the Civil War President. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

Aug 3, 2012 · Most dangerously, McClellan was utterly contemptuous of Abraham Lincoln’s character, intelligence, social origins and morals. He dismissed the president as “the original Gorilla,” a...

Nov 13, 2009 · To his wife, McClellan wrote that Lincoln was “nothing more than a well-meaning baboon,” and Secretary of State William Seward was an “incompetent little puppy.” Lincoln made frequent evening...

Jun 23, 2010 · During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln grew frustrated by Gen. George McClellan's refusal to engage the Confederate Army. McClellan referred to Lincoln in letters as a "well-meaning baboon"...

Lincoln they thought a simple Susan, a baboon, an aimless punster, a smutty joker. He left the highway of principle to pursue the devious paths of expediency. A "huckster in politics," sneered...