Regarding Politico’s Lincoln obsession and its chief enabler, Sean Wilentz, a correspondent sends this quote, found in newspaper coverage of the 1860 primary…
“Americans will never elect a one-term congressman from Illinois who was in bed with the railroad companies and ran down his country during its war to spread the blessings of democracy in Mexico. And, just you watch, he’ll play the race card too!”-Sean “Young Hickory” Wilentz, James K. Polk Chair of Manifest Destiny, The College of New Jersey, 1860
— Tim Fernholz
