![]() Wills - who counts among his many stylish books "Confessions of a Conservative" and who in "Nixon Agonistes" pilloried the former president as a "liberal" - would be upset with Lincoln. ![]() In three minutes, he married the Declaration and the Constitution. ![]() But it had great moral stature - with Lincoln, and the people. A lawyer himself, Lincoln knew that the Declaration had no legal standing. ![]() The central idea evoked in what immediately became known as "the Gettysburg Address" (Everett's verbosity was forgotten) came from the Declaration of Independence, penned by Jefferson. The father Lincoln had in mind - but did not mention at Gettysburg, any more than slavery, the South, the North, or even the specific battlefield - was his own spiritual and intellectual mentor, Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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