Word: lincoln
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...Daniel R. Gangler Lincoln...
There was talk of impeachment in Abraham Lincoln's third year, and one Senator told of the President's possessing "an unhuman sadness." Lincoln confided to a friend: "The tired part of me is inside and out of reach." But that was the year he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, gave the Gettysburg Address, and realized General Ulysses S. Grant should lead his army...
...monument in question is Thomas Ball's Emancipation. a bronze statue created in 1874. The huge artwork depicts a majestic President Abraham Lincoln, armed with his famous Proclamation, benevolent hand outstretched, in the act of liberating a barely clothed Black salve. The bondsman who humbly kneels before the Great Emancipator, his manacles finally broken, seems unable to comprehend his new found freedom and elevated social status. Local Black groups, offended by the paternalistic relationship implied by the statue, have asked that it be moved to an out-of-sight location...
...Florence. Ball specialized in portrait statuary and commissioned monuments on a grand scale, "few of which are aesthetically interesting," notes art historian Milton Brown. Ball's most famous works proved to be the two copies of the Emancipation group: the other one is in Washington. D.C. "More than any Lincoln memorial of the time it captured the imagination of the public in its mixture of naturalism and sentimentality," writes Brown...
...either leave the statue in Park Square or select a new location. Emancipation, along with other artistic anachronisms, like the blackface minstrel movies of the 1920s, best belong safely tucked away in the dusty halls of a museum, carefully preserved as a record of the past. And Mr. Lincoln, were he still around today, certainly would take no offense; as he admitted back in 1863, "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it. "Now Lincoln, and his metallic likeness...