![]() ![]() Happily for me, there was no vain pomp and ceremony about him. I entered it with a moderate estimate of my own consequence, and yet there was to talk with, and even to advise, the head man of a great nation. The room in which he received visitors was the one now used by the President’s secretaries. I was accompanied to the executive mansion and introduced to President Lincoln by Senator Pomeroy. I shall never forget my first interview with this great man. Unlike with many of his white abolitionist contemporaries, the proud former slave found no hint of condescension in President Lincoln’s demeanor. ![]() Lincoln explained his policies on black soldiers and defended his incremental steps toward black rights. Lincoln in the summer of 1863 and as he later recalled “saw at a glance the justice of the popular estimate of his qualities expressed in the prefix Honest to the name Abraham Lincoln.” 1 Mr. ![]()
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